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McChrystal to hand in troop request, but Gates will hold on to it
Stars and Stripes ^ | September 24, 2009 | Kevin Baron,

Posted on 09/23/2009 8:59:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

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1 posted on 09/23/2009 8:59:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

No Hiding Place.

Can’t Vote Present.

Checkmate.

Game, Set, Match.

“You Are Terminated.”

Obama is doomed.


2 posted on 09/23/2009 9:03:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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To: Jet Jaguar

If Gates was Rumsfeld, and Obama was Bush, the press would be screaming bloody murder from every rooftop in New York and DC. Nope, no media bias whatsoever.


3 posted on 09/23/2009 9:04:45 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: Jet Jaguar
"Once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory."
-- General Douglas MacArthur in his Farewell Address to Congress. April 19, 1951


War was forced upon on us on September 11, 2001. Americans should not accept prolonged indecision, only victory!
4 posted on 09/23/2009 9:06:44 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Zer0, Gates, the blood of each serviceman is on your shoulders whilst you ponder your decision!

Whether you want to win the war overseas, or capitulate in the chambers of the US congress is up to you.

Meanwhile, our troops are dying, while Zer0 schedules another trip to the kid’s swing, and his ho’s hoe garden!


5 posted on 09/23/2009 9:07:41 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: Jet Jaguar

Zer0, Gates, the blood of each serviceman is on your shoulders whilst you ponder your decision!

Whether you want to win the war overseas, or capitulate in the chambers of the US congress is up to you.

Meanwhile, our troops are dying, while Zer0 schedules another trip to the kid’s swing, and his ho’s hoe garden!


6 posted on 09/23/2009 9:08:56 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: Jet Jaguar

Should a soldier’s parent curse the bastard who “holds onto” a call for more troops when needed? I think so. It’s absolutely immoral.


7 posted on 09/23/2009 9:15:23 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

He works for those who raised $700 million to get him elected - Islamic world perhaps aka Saudis, Pakistan, Indoneisa.

The U.S. military is being set up to be humiliated. Afghanistan cannot be “won.” These people change allainces by the minute. For thousands of years it has been a tribal warfare hell hole. Martians could learn how to live in a democratic country before these people.

Our troops will be killed and intel by his moles from Hamas and The Muslim Brotherhood in The White Hut could be getting leaked to the Taliban or Al Qeada.

This is a setup to humliate the military. The Russian professor who said the U.S. will break up oddly said Gates might be the person to keep it together.

Eventually the military and The Joint Cheifs may realize they are being punked. Doctors are getting it as they are marching on DC on Oct 1.


8 posted on 09/23/2009 9:16:54 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Nachum

Ping


9 posted on 09/23/2009 9:27:09 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
Thanks Jet Jaguar

The list, ping

10 posted on 09/23/2009 9:30:42 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Holding on to the request makes a lot of sense. I know that the General wants more troops and I am not in the chain of command. What difference does it make that the "offical request" is in the hands of the Sec Def instead of our Commie in Chief?

Soldiers are still dying while Obama procrastinates. As someone said, that is immoral.

11 posted on 09/23/2009 9:35:14 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

That 3 A.M. phone is ringing and 0 is screening his calls.


12 posted on 09/23/2009 9:44:20 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama does lie.)
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To: Lawgvr1955

I think it makes a big difference. Obama was/is required by the Goldwater/Nichols Act to publish a National Security Strategy. The NSS is guide for US Military leaders.

Obama has not published anything resembling a National Security Strategy or policy.

Bush published his NSP three during his term.

Military officers and NCO’s study the various CIC’s National Security Strategy.

Nobody seems to know this is law.

Right now, the current CIC has not published one. So a General must sit and wait.

Troops are in harms way, and we await a decision.

We knew what would be asked of us under the previous NSS.

Posted below.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2320.htm


13 posted on 09/23/2009 9:50:10 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Lawgvr1955

He, Obama, has no coherent policy.


14 posted on 09/23/2009 9:52:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

So how many American service personnel will die because of The Failed Democratic Party© indecisiveness? Sounds like LBJ to me...


15 posted on 09/23/2009 10:05:36 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
This turd sold America down the crapper today at the UN. We are in deep doo doo, folks...
16 posted on 09/23/2009 10:07:03 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Frantzie

“This is a setup to humliate the military.”

This is exactly the path Czar Nicholas II went on prior to the Russian military turning against him and overthrowing him. Obozo is making the same fatal error.


17 posted on 09/23/2009 10:19:45 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: DarthVader

They are systematically going through and destroying or taking control of industries or discrediting them.

It appears that the doctors may be rebelling. If they don’t - they will eventually lose everything. They will have a choice of a low paid job with an ACORN boss or no job.

By humiliating the military - it is payback to the Islamic overseers for the humiliation the military inflicted on Saddam’s military and the Taliban early on.


18 posted on 09/23/2009 10:24:46 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Should McChrystal not get the troops, he and every officer can do so should resign. Those whose re-enlistment is up, should not. Those who thinking about enlisting, should not. Sad, but we have to lose a war to win back the country.


19 posted on 09/23/2009 11:02:20 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Were my kid was in Afghanistan and got killed while this p.o.s. screws around trying to enhance his poll numbers I’d have to go after his sorry ass and gates.
What garbage this guy is.


20 posted on 09/24/2009 2:21:09 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84 (FUBO))
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