Posted on 08/30/2009 6:15:25 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
There is rising disillusion among liberals and peace activists that a president who built his campaign on his opposition to the war in Iraq now views America's other conflict as a "war of necessity".
Mr Obama has already added 21,000 extra troops to the 38,000 stationed there by George W Bush. In the next few weeks, he is likely to receive requests from the Pentagon for more when Gen Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanisan, submits a report on the progress of the war.
It is expected to paint a grim picture and offer the president three options for action: increase troop numbers dramatically, increase them less dramatically or leave them as they are.
Some organisations that campaigned against the Iraq war are biding their time or are more inclined to side with the president's argument that a stronger counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan is in US national interests.
But others have run out of patience, and though they know they will not yet fill city centre streets with protestors, they plan to hold marches and smaller events such as forums with war veterans and troops' families, as well as lobbying members of Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Zero campaigned on a pack of lies! Don’t these people get it?
Good for Obama.
But where are the protests!? I want to see PROTESTS!
Where you been all these years? Dont you know that war is only acceptable if a Dem is in office..
Anguish must be setting in for being a bye gone media relic.
If you’re fighting to lose anyway, then you might as well pull out.
Obama said what needed to be said to get their vote, and now they have discovered he lied to them too!! Welcome to reality!
He said all along that he wanted to beef up resources in Afghanistan. Why didn't they believe him?
Yeah, I read some recent comment of hers where she was surprised that her anti-war activities are no longer receiving media coverage. She did make the connection that protesting Obama “wasn’t popular” or something like that.
Welcome to the real world, Cindy.
Cindy is developing Meth lesions.
Good grief what happened to her face? It looks like a buzzard tried to eat her alive!
You better join one of their groups on line and find out where they meet 'cause you ainna gonna see 'em on da telly.
"zero" is already preparing for this.
Tea Party types can and will keep their cool. But should these loons co-protest near us, I am not sure I’d like it...
That was the general election. They believed him in the primaries and forgave him for lying in general. They knew that secretly he would do what he promised them and pull out of everything immediately. And even if he lied he still their lying, cheating, stealing Chicago thug politican and they will stand by their man.
[With a glazed expression] "He just forgot . . . yeah . . . he got busy and we'll just remind him and he'll come back to us . . . where did I leave that roach?
She has come to the realization that the media itself is
blacking her out.
Now it's Fox's turn to give her a full interview.
“Enough already” exclaimed ABC's morning guy, his name
exscapes me now; yet he used to extol the virtues of Cindy.
Cindy is developing Meth lesions.
I think that pic is from 2006 when she was "fasting." Still, I don't know that fasting would bring about that brand of ugly. AIDS leaves those kinds of lesions, I think, NOT that I'm saying she has AIDS or anything. Maybe dehydration from the fasting??? Either way...blech.
Still chuckling about the buzzard bit...
I guess Cindy is learning the meaning of the term Useful Idiot.
Talk about Herding Cats.
As much as she ticked me off these last few years, i now take pity on her.
In her grief, the media pumped her up for their own agenda.
She obviously felt very important perhaps for the first time in her life.
It must really be painful to realize that you've been used and played the fool in such an immensely public way.
I’ll believe it when I start seeing “Obama Lied, Men Died” bumper stickers and Seattle area liberals cars. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen
That would be interesting. Have Fox interview her on the subject of why all the other media outlets refuse to cover her, now that she's protesting Obama.
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