Obama would have sent a handwritten note to the Germans warning them about the D-Day invasion had he been given the chance.
Posted on 12/01/2009 9:27:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama intends to conclude the Afghanistan war and withdraw most U.S. troops within three years, according to senior administration officials.
Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and ordering military officials to get the reinforcements there within six months, White House officials told CNN Tuesday.
Obama will travel to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, later Tuesday to officially announce his plans. It would to be his second escalation of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country since he came to power in January.
The president also is seeking further troop commitments from NATO allies as part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at wiping out al Qaeda elements and stabilizing the country while training Afghan forces.
The expected new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by about 45,000 NATO forces.
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And the loony left thought this was over before the innagural ball was to begin
And the end game is?????? What is he hoping to accomplish? If he pulls “most” troops out in 3 years, who will defend the remaing troops?
Three years, hmmm? Just in time for the next election.
Tollybon say “Thank you mon! For telling us how long we have to lay low before you guys leave!”
Three years just in time for his reelection efforts. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Another statement from someone with no credibility. Forget about it.
you’re 100% correct. yet another lib makes the mistake of thinking you can put a war in a timeframe.
Imagine how a trooper must feel on the ground. I am being asked to risk my life and limb and we are going to out of here in three years regardless of whether we are winning or not? I guess we should remind Obama of Kerry’s statement before Congress in 1971, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
I heard they are only deploying a battalion a quarter! That is 3x slower than the Iraqi surge. We wont see 30,000 troops there for a long time, if ever. Is this a deliberate plan to cut and run while saying “well I tried, but the surge failed!”
Obama is not going to do anything to bolster India. The Indians apparently felt severely dissed by Bambi’s pass through the East, and since they are a nuclear power and could be a threat to his beloved Pockistan, he had to try to soothe their feelings a bit, hence the dinner.
Obama has no love for India.
Obama is an imbecile to allow anything like this out! He is guaranteeing defeat. If this is what he intends he should get out now.
If he really wanted to win in three years, 30k probably only scratches the surface. So now we have a combo President of Jimmy Carter and LBJ...
In three years? Well, well, well, just in time for his "reelection" promises. "Vote for me, and I'll end the war."
Will the moderates be dumb enough to believe the same lie twice?
This country had better make sure this presidential impostor doesn't get a second term.
Everything Barry proposes is geared towards re-election and the further acquisition of power...not what is best for the country.
Good point. But I think the key is that our military won't let them lay low. I think the time limit is reasonable. I can't believe I'm saying this -- that I agree with this thug in the White House ... BUT the reality is that with a troop surge (such as what worked reliably in Iraq) which the field commanders in-country have been requesting, if the job can't be done in three years, it probably can't be done at all. Give our guys what they need to WIN and the proper ROE to do the job and I'll bet they do in fact get the job done. OHHH BABY's not looking to reassure his base with a cut and run in time for re-election, he's looking to woo the opposition with a VICTORY in time for re-election! That's fine. Our victory still won't help him because he'll hang himself on his domestic agenda, not the war.
Wonder if this time line has any relationship to 2012 election? NAWWWW. Couldn’t be.
What a flaming douchbag ths elephant eared motherfu*ker is!
three years until he punts.
I find this announced timing...suspicious.
Now, all you guys who want to sign up and go fight for this dork, knowing he has no stomach to win and wont even mention the word “VICTORY” tonight (too arrogant)...
step right on up to the local recruiter’s office.
I wouldn't count on that. Oboma sees a victory as a failure. Why should they die for American liberalism?
So Obama’s plan is to
1)half-@$$edly support the general’s recommendation,
2)institute ROE’s that will guarantee that more troops will be killed for no reason and we will eventually lose heart and
3)then to cut and run just in time for the 2012 elections
4)blame George Bush.
For him, it will be. He won’t be in office any more than 3 years...at the latest!
did it take 6 months to trickle in troops for the Iraq surge?
A 6 month buildup does not sound like a “surge”. The word victory does not appear in any of his announced “strategy”
Geez, you’ve missed the point entirely!! It doesn’t matter if we can do it in 6 months with the extra troops. By using ANY sort of a date it allows the enemy to go home, lay low and KNOW the enemy is leaving on a date certain.
It is the STUPIDEST and most poorly thought out strategy imaginable. It was done for one reason, to appease his anti American base. he has all but guaranteed Afghanistan will become another Viet Nam.
This isn’t simply just ‘cut & run’. This will be ‘Lose first, then Cut & Run’.
But letting the Taliban/al Qaeda know exactly how long they need to lay low and rebuild in secret is an asinine plan. They will stockpile weapons and train, waiting until right before our next presidential election and then unleash holy hell on our retreating soldiers to declare victory. And they will be right.
Uh....he was probably trying to buy the guys vote with stimulous dollars before the meeting in Copenhagen. Oboma just isn't that deep.
I think the GOP ought to call for the generals to testify in front of congress like Petraeus did on Iraq
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please" - Machiavelli"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it" - George Orwell
Withdraw the Rules of Engagement, go in there and bomb them back into the stone age, then we can safely pull out all of our troops in the next year.........hows that?
Just a theory. Both of your explanations make sense.
It’s hard for me to hold him to his campaign promises because it was so completely and utterly obvious to me that he was a liar and the truth was not in him and it really didn’t MATTER what he said, he would do just what he liked once he got in there.
FUBO.
Obama would have sent a handwritten note to the Germans warning them about the D-Day invasion had he been given the chance.
You don’t get a victory by dispatching 75% of the minimum the generals in the field say they need and putting a timeframe on the operation.
The problem is, it already is the stone age in Afghanistan. They never made it any farther. There’s no infrastructure, no loyalty, no national pride. Its a tribal nation with few educated citizens to raise up into leadership. Its an un-winnable war. We got Al-Qaeda and now its time to come home before more of our boys die under the new ROE.
And just to think. It took him 3 f’ing months to come up with this revelation!
I doubt if they even bother to lay low. This just gives them an idea of how long they have to last and when to start their major offensive.
That’s nice, but the next question is-—will Al Qaeda and the Taliban stop fighting in 3 years?
maybe we’d have it won in less than three years if this pathetic, disgusting POS would have sent the General what he asked for when he asked for it.
maybe we’d have it won in less than three years if this pathetic, disgusting POS would have sent the General what he asked for when he asked for it.
maybe we’d have it won in less than three years if this pathetic, disgusting POS would have sent the General what he asked for when he asked for it.
The list, ping
So his plan is to promise to end the war right after the next election. So the libs have to vote for him one more time. But this time he really really promises to end the war, but they have to vote for him again. Promise.
Yeah, good one.
Well, speaking as a Vietnam Vet, at least the troops know that up front (not that I agree with it). Many of us signed up for the Vietnam War in the belief that our country was committed to victory when JFK stated our county would "...bear any burden, pay any price, in the defense of liberty". I'm not complaining, I came back in relativey good condition. My anger and grief relates to those who lost their lives and those who continue to suffer.
>>>did it take 6 months to trickle in troops for the Iraq surge?
It took about 4-5 months.
The Iraq surge was announced by President Bush on January 10
The five U.S. Army brigades committed to Iraq as part of the surge were:
2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division: Deployed to Baghdad, January 2007
4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division: Deployed to Baghdad, February 2007
3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division: Deployed to southern Baghdad Belts, March 2007
4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division: Deployed to Diyala province, April 2007
2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division: Deployed to the southeast of Baghdad, May 2007
I would say that we should not have gotten involved in it in the first place, but now that we are, we dont cut and run. Bomb them if we must, but enough of this do unto others then run BS.
Really smart to telegraph your intentions to the enemy.
>>>maybe we’d have it won in less than three years if this pathetic, disgusting POS would have sent the General what he asked for when he asked for it.
Yes, and we would probaly be out of Iraq by now if W had listened to his generals instead of the politicians.
“I would say that what’s been mobilized to this point — something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We’re talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that’s fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. And so it takes a significant ground-force presence.” - General Shinseki, February 25, 2003
“There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army — hard to imagine.” - Paul Wolfowitz, February 27, 2003
Obama is finally saving us money. No need for a telegram to al-Queda.
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