Posted on 11/29/2009 8:06:53 AM PST by mojito
President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday an additional 30,000-35,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, which reportedly may start with 9,000 Marines being deployed to southern Afghanistan followed by 1,000 Army trainers in February.
The Washington Post reported Sunday that final preparations for the 9,000 Marines will commence as part of a deployment aimed at Helmand province, where the Taliban stronghold has been partly gutted by an additional 10,000 Marines sent earlier this year.
"The first troops out of the door are going to be Marines," Gen. James T. Conway, the Corps' top officer, told Marines in Afghanistan on Saturday, according to the newspaper. "We've been leaning forward in anticipation of a decision. And we've got some pretty stiff fighting coming."
Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday his new strategy for the eight-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. Speaking at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the president is expected to call for 30,000 to 35,000 new troops to be deployed over the next 12 to 18 months.
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fighting who, how, and for what? Careful boys, our foes are not enemies, be sure you read them their rights, they may end up in a US courtroom 5 years from now to testify against you and their buddies will know who you are and where your family lives
And kill a civilian they hide behind and we'll turn you over to the ICC
All this on the “orders” (vested by the US Constitution?) of this POS pretender (I have a war too) and the weakling generals who salute him and his Harvard academic and Chicago radical advisors
- we all know this is about nothing more than saving his sorry axx while he desperately tries to convince the tolly-bon to love him and strike a deal
I vote for sending the US Congress to Afganistan ahead of our Marines with Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Boxer, Feinstein, Frank, Dodd, Schumer, Kerry (hero of Vietnam), Kennedy, et al. leading the charge right into the Taliban’s stronghold. Let’s see if the members of Congress have any guts whatsoever when it comes to anything other than corruption and lies and their deliberate plot to destroy our country.
My bet is that they’re gutless, spineless, and chicken feces.
Hopefully the Politburo will become endangered feces..
Will Chris Matthews kids be heading over to Afghanistan? How bout Barbara Boxer’s kids? Will they fight in Barry’s war? If anything is to be learned from the past 5 yrs it’s that we have a moral authority to ask these questions. Chickenhawks?
Yeah. Remember that? Whay aren't the Bush twins going to Iraq? When does the obama girl turn 18?
One of these Marines happens to be the fiancee of one of my nieces. I’m praying for this young man. I’m praying for them all.
Me too.
Instead of the Age of Aquarius, we now have the Age of Political Feces.
Without a change to the ROE, more troops won’t help.
That is why they would best utilize their talents as fertilizer..
I second your vote and agree with your bet. They are the most worthless examples of human feces and are are worse than a waste of oxygen because they are instrumental in destroying our Republic.
Godspeed Marines. You fight for your Brothers. You fight for your fellow countrymen. Focus on the task at hand and may the Lord Himself watch each and every one of your backs in battle, I pray.
2016
Here in the U.S.A., we settle our differences at at the ballot box, and your post does not help us. At all.
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May they descend upon the enemies of freedom and return unharmed after they have performed their mission assignments.
Voted our way out from under British rule, did we?
and your post does not help us. At all.
Yes, much better we let the enemy know they have nothing to fear from us except sinking poll numbers, and stern looks when they steal the next election.
Quit being such a soft tool.
Tell that to King George and Jefferson Davis.
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