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Dissension in the Ranks?
Real Clear Politics ^ | September 8, 2010 | Tony Blankley

Posted on 09/08/2010 8:33:11 AM PDT by unique

With the end of combat in Operation Enduring Freedom presidentially certified, all eyes rivet toward Afghanistan. This is the fight President Obama, when campaigning for office, called our "war of necessity." This is the theater of conflict where Obama, when debating Sen. McCain barely two years ago, promised us victory ending with the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, Afghanistan may also be the only war in American history with a presidential expiration date.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; troops; war
Last sentence "I repeat what I wrote last November: Bring the troops home. We'll need them later, God knows."

We need to stop supporting this war under Obama's rules of engagement and deadline.

1 posted on 09/08/2010 8:33:15 AM PDT by unique
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To: unique
Afghanistan may also be the only war in American history with a presidential expiration date.

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Barry on the Iraq War: 'See, I ended the war, give me my due!'

What a P.O.S. PUTZ!

Did he really think he could talk his way through four years of the American presidency?

Obama Orders Miranda Rights In Afghanistan

2 posted on 09/08/2010 8:42:49 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: unique

Note to Tony: Operation Enduring Freedom pertains to Afghanistan. Iraq’s is Operation Iraqi Freedom.


3 posted on 09/08/2010 8:58:45 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: unique

I agree completely.


4 posted on 09/08/2010 9:19:25 AM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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