The Generals and Obama. With Friends Like These.....
"There they go now, marching off to war again
Smiling proudly, with their heads in the clouds
See them smile now, marching off in lines." - Oingo Boingo
The military has decided it needs more troops in Afghanistan (didn't see that one coming did ya?). News flash: The military always decides it needs more troops in wartime and they are routinely, and sadly, supported by Washington D.C. think tanks and weaker elected officials.
The President, to his credit, has decided he needs to rethink Afghanistan. Now the Beltway games begin. Now begin the leaks, the announcements that troops are in danger. The unverifiable rumor passes from the generals to the neo-cons to Condi Rice to Joe Lieberman. Never mind that these same "experts" insisted we needed war with Iraq or we would all die in a mushroom cloud.
They were wrong then, they are wrong now. But now we have a chance to stop this from turning into further tragedy.
The President is asking questions. Members of the House are standing up and saying no. Senator Feingold is asking for troop withdrawal. And most important, the public is taking action. They are saying no more! No more escalation, no more destabilization, no more cost, no more civilian deaths, and no more American casualties!
But remember, the public said no to Iraq and it took years to end the war. It's easy to get into war, hard to get out.
The time to act is now. Join us at Rethink Afghanistan and take action. Organize a grassroots screening, send a letter to your representative, write a letter to the editor.
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Neocons are simply trying a tactic they tried in the UK--there's been a "we need more helicopters" thing there for months.
More meat for the grinder. If these Generals want more soldiers in the front they are welcome to demand a transfer to be the first in line!
The USA MUST KEEP THE TERRORIST OUT OF IRAN !!!!!!!!
Says who? Why? Which ones?
Gen McChrystal agrees with you. He just travelled to the site of where the Germans ordered an air strike against the taliban, he surveyed the area in the open with no body armor and has repeatedly stated that we must work closer with the Afghans, and he is the exact guy to set that example.
Am not suggesting sending them as General am suggesting demoting them to Private before we ship them to the front!
The President ordere 21,000 troops to go to Afghanistan and they aren't even here yet. His plan he executed in March has just barely started and now you are saying we should leave now? The President stated this was the correct war and that he was committed to it.
The military has decided that it needs more troops to accomplish the mission that they were given by the President.
This was Baracks hand picked general , the man who Pres O chose to replace the Bush era ones and to win the "good war "he campaigned on ....
Obama has to deal with the Religious Right that now controls the Pentagon and wants a Crusade in the middle east !!!!
I prefer this line -
"See the generals in their masses
like witches at black masses"
- Black Sabbath, "War Pigs."
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