So is this what Obama has in mind for adding jobs? 34,000 of em, to Afghanistan?
This isn't what I had in mind when I voted for him last year.
Can someone get through to Obama and his braintrust of political "pros" in the White House that he is digging the grave of his presidency and quite possibly (see USSR, 1980s) this country with all this more war/more boons for bankers stuff?
There is a huge pent-up fed-up populist rage out there, and if the Dems won't start heeding and serving it, the Right will be happy to, fraudulent and toxic as they are. Then God help us (and he won't).
Tommy Sowers: Why Is Congress Mute On Afghanistan?
Eight years in, we deserve more than another executive debate of resources behind closed doors. We deserve a Congress willing to do their duty -- define an objective or bring our troops home.
Obama got elected, and the Dems rode his coattails, based on promises of sweeping change. It absolutely boggles the mind that this fact has been disregarded so casually. The populism of the campaign has been replaced by special interest based business as usual.
The impact of the anger and sense of betrayal will be enormous in upcoming elections as people stay home or vote third party, giving the Republicans, the few percentage points they need to get elected.
Then we will be in real deep doodoo.
I strongly suspect, despite their protestations, that the war in Iraq was and is over oil. Most wars in the 20th century have been. If the money that had been used for conflict during the last 100 years had been used to make the U.S. self sufficient, with renewable clean energy supplies, the whole world would be better off.
If the wars are actually being fought for wealth and power (follow the money) then Senator Levin has a valid point. The wealthiest Americans are the ones profiting from these encounters, let them be the ones to pay for them. No amount of money will make up for the lost lives of the poor and middle class who actually fight in them.
Let every hawk and war profiteer who's ever been quoted in support of either war be assessed a special tax to fund the Afghan war, since the U.S. can't afford it right now.
Start with the Cheneys, Bushes, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill-O, all Halliburton execs and staff, all Blackwater execs and staff, etc.
In fact, any company executive or manager whose company makes a profit from the war industry should also pay a windfall tax during a war. For example, KBR and Dyncorps execs should pay an extra 5 percent in taxes.
Not that such a tax would prevent them from lobbying for war, but it would make it less profitable.
With the increase in troops, their cost, the quagmire, and no jobs, I'm angry.
I'll be supporting someone else for the Democratic nomination in 2012.
We get the government we deserve.
This is the case of a Presidential candidate running a fraudulent scam for a Presidential campaign and turning out to be the opposite of what he purported to be.
The President has proven through his appointments, his actions and non-actions that he is no-FDR, LBJ or Kennedy. He's just another corporate shill who serves the military industrial complex and Wall Street.
DUMP OBAMA
Kucinich/Feingold 2012