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Americans to continue fighting and dying in Afghanistan till 2024

For what, exactly?

All you folks who continue to support this administration despite its foreign policy, please explain to me precisely how this is in America's best interests.

I'm waiting (and American troops will be dying) to hear it.

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Hube said…
For what, exactly?

Precisely.
March 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM
The Last Ephor said…
Does anyone remember the anti-war movement?
March 26, 2013 at 11:04 AM
delacrat said…
I remember the anti-war movement being ignored.
March 26, 2013 at 3:33 PM
tom said…
So is that “not quite public” pact that Obama & Karzai signed a treaty (and if so, when is it going to be ratified by the Senate?) or is it just treason?
March 26, 2013 at 4:34 PM
The Last Ephor said…
@Delacrat: Wouldn't it be logical that Obama would not ignore them then? He was against the war (or so he tells me) yet he has done nothing to withdraw. Why is that?
March 27, 2013 at 9:19 AM
delacrat said…
He was against the war (or so he tells me) yet he has done nothing to withdraw. Why is that?"

Duffy,

In a October 2002 speech, Obomba "opposed" the war on the grounds that it was "dumb" and "rash".

The war's immorality he has always ignored, along with the anti-war movement.

In the same speech he weaseled 4 times, "I am not opposed to all wars". That was a harbinger of his 5 Senate votes to fund the same "dumb" and "rash" war, and his decisions as POTUS to prolong the Iraq war 3 years and Afghan war indefinitely.

To believe anything Obomba says, you gotta ignore a lot of what he does.
March 27, 2013 at 12:00 PM
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