Obama Afghanistan Decision: President Will Miss Self-Imposed Deadline

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First Posted: 11- 9-09 03:52 PM   |   Updated: 11- 9-09 04:24 PM

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Though the White House had been shooting for the president to make an announcement about his new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan between November 7, which was to have been the date of the Afghan run-off election, and November 11, when the president was to have departed for his trip to Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea, that window now appear to be all but closed.

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Though the White House had been shooting for the president to make an announcement about his new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan between November 7, which was to have been the date of the Afghan ...
Though the White House had been shooting for the president to make an announcement about his new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan between November 7, which was to have been the date of the Afghan ...
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- TomZart I'm a Fan of TomZart 12 fans permalink
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    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:31 PM on 11/10/2009
- Bloggerrogr I'm a Fan of Bloggerrogr 143 fans permalink
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Pimping your own website is a no-no in the discussion threads.

FWIW

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 AM on 11/11/2009

Obama doesnt seem to have a goal or what we hope to accomplish before we can take our troops out of there. The troops shouldnt have to stay in another country losing their lives while a decision and plan that should have been made months ago is being left on a cold burner while we are bailing out failures and ramming a pretend health bill down our throats. He needs to bring our troops home.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 AM on 11/10/2009

President Obama never gave a deadline for his decision. MSM have been trying to read the tea leaves and guess. Will it be before or after the run off election, will he announced before his trip to Asia since there is no run off election. The media knows nothing. Last thing Obama said on camera was weeks ago to NBC and stated that he might make a decision before the runoff election but may not announce it before the runoff election in afghan. Last week he asked for 4 additional options. He has not received them yet.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:51 AM on 11/10/2009
- xlntcat I'm a Fan of xlntcat 87 fans permalink

Every member of the administration has shot ever so called reporter down when they suggested a deadline. At no time and in no way, did the president or any member of the administration even suggest that November 7 was a deadline. Now members of the press corp did. They were told that they were wrong at least 3 times during the same press conference. Pundits speculated that November 7 was a deadline because they are paid to say something, but the White House repetitively stated that they would not commit addtional troops or resources to Afghanistan until they were convinced that they had a viable mission. And yet, day after day, all we hear from the media is troops, troops, troops. They do not care what these troops are suppose to accompish. The do not care how we define success or failure. All they care about is ginning up the public with their lame speculation.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:02 AM on 11/10/2009
- Bloggerrogr I'm a Fan of Bloggerrogr 143 fans permalink
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Spot on and well-said, xlntcat!

my first "FAN" of the day. Thank you for saying what I was thinking!

FWIW

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:29 AM on 11/11/2009

Change we can believe in.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:11 AM on 11/10/2009
- mergina I'm a Fan of mergina 84 fans permalink
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So his royal highness is poised to send tens of thousands more americans into harms way to support a drug dealing taliban regime, with NO MISSION FOR VICTORY, NO DEFINITION OF WHAT VICTORY IS, NO EXIT STRATEGY, and HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS MORE IN DEBT AND WAR PROFITS TO THE PROFITEERING POWERS THAT BE. Well with a decision like that, it might as well be CHENEY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Obama is a totally ONE TERM PITIFUL PRESIDENT, a tragic extension of BUSH.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 11/09/2009
- Chili4me I'm a Fan of Chili4me 32 fans permalink
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No, I think he is starting to exceed Bush's suckitude.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:28 PM on 11/09/2009
- jinxed I'm a Fan of jinxed 23 fans permalink
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Its actually nice having a president that doesn't jump to decisions, looks at the whole picture then doesn't try to stampede the country into a bad decision.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 AM on 11/10/2009
- mergina I'm a Fan of mergina 84 fans permalink
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Oh, you mean take your sweet time and make a bad decision.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:53 AM on 11/10/2009
- Truthahn I'm a Fan of Truthahn 17 fans permalink

161 American servicemen have died in Afghanistan since Gen. McChrystal submitted his recommendations to the White House on Aug. 30th.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:07 PM on 11/09/2009
- xlntcat I'm a Fan of xlntcat 87 fans permalink

Deaths in Afghanistan have progressive increased since McChrystal took over. McChrystal submitted his recommendations to the media before he submitted them to the White House.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:56 AM on 11/10/2009

Hate to agree with a comic, but here it is.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/10/13/tomo

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:16 PM on 11/09/2009
- ElsaIndy I'm a Fan of ElsaIndy 16 fans permalink

Having principles makes decisions easier.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:56 PM on 11/09/2009
- billhodges I'm a Fan of billhodges 209 fans permalink
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That explains his problem doesn't it? :-))

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:15 PM on 11/09/2009
- Coinyer101 I'm a Fan of Coinyer101 646 fans permalink
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time to pull out of them wars. they were won a long time ago, and it is over. What continues is an occupation and power grab attempt to score oil and opium.....­,

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:53 PM on 11/09/2009
- PES I'm a Fan of PES permalink

I'd much prefer that he take his time and come up with a coherent, reasoned policy, rather than just rashly reacting to whatever the whim of the day might be. Or, for the simpletons out there...be­tter to measure twice, cut once, then cut twice and then thrown out the ruler (right Deceider).

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 PM on 11/09/2009
- beerent I'm a Fan of beerent 10 fans permalink
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If he comes to a reasoned decision to send more troops, will you support him?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:47 AM on 11/10/2009
- jordan327 I'm a Fan of jordan327 56 fans permalink

Move on.org needs to make up their mind quicker, this is making the puppet man look bad.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:36 PM on 11/09/2009
- billhodges I'm a Fan of billhodges 209 fans permalink
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Interesting thought, and you may be quite right.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:15 PM on 11/09/2009
- Bloggerrogr I'm a Fan of Bloggerrogr 143 fans permalink
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Interesting that you had a thought and you may be quite wrong.

FWIW

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:31 AM on 11/11/2009

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