Comments on: ‘We Face a Common Threat’: White House to Push Afghanistan and Pakistan to Fight Extremists

By: tjp612

tjp612 — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:25:51 +0000

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
Barack Obama
On US troops in Afghanistan
August 14, 2007
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US air strikes in Afghanistan on Tuesday killed dozens of civilians including women and children, officials from the Red Cross have said.
Afghan officials in the western province of Farah told the BBC as many as 100 civilians might have died.
(BBC News May 6, 2009)
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Change you can believe in.

By: tanarg

tanarg — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:48:57 +0000

I question the sanity of anyone who voted to put an untested narcissist in charge of U.S. foreign policy. I really do. The sheer lunacy of what you all have done is unfathomable.
We tried to warn you that an inexperienced anti-American monster like Obama would wreak havoc in the world.
Read “Why would some at the CIA want to sabotage President Obama?” (this site doesn’t want URLs posted, so you can find it through searching online for the title.
Excerpt:
Other Western intelligence services regard the Obama administration with contempt and rising concern, an officer of the DGSE, France’s military intelligence agency, told my friend Jack Wheeler (the real life Indiana
Jones) last week.
“All of us in our little community are worried – us, our friends in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv,” the DGSE officer told Jack. “It is not like the barbarians at the gates. It is every barbarian horde in the world being told there are no gates.”

By: J House

J House — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:49:08 +0000

The Presidenr said he will ‘disrupt, dismantle and destroy’ AQ.
How can he possibly achieve that goal without US troops going into Pakistan?
We had air supremacy from the first day of the Iraq war and the Afghanistan conflict.
No way drones are going to ‘destroy’ AQ in Pakistan.
It is going to take US ground forces to do it.

By: Dave T

Dave T — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:51:53 +0000

Why give pakistan any money? Pakistan’s security forces are corrupt and most support the militants. We are going to end of giving money to the Taliban and Al Qaeda through the government of Pakistan. A real friend would let our troops in so we could catch Bin Laden. I don’t trust Pakistan!

By: tin can

tin can — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:35:06 +0000

What is going to happen if the Taliban get their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons? Hmmm, King Barry???

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:22:49 +0000

It’s ok,Obama will let them move here so they can fight on our soil.
After all,were the extremist to Obama.

By: Fascist Hyena

Fascist Hyena — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:15:23 +0000

The non-partisan CBO tells us what would happen without Obama’s stimulus:
“The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) publication, The Budget and Economic Outlook states that the current recession will end as soon as late 2009, even without the stimulus:
“‘CBO anticipates that the current recession, which started
in December 2007, will last until the second half of 2009, making it the longest recession since World War II.’
“This recession, however, may not result in the highest unemployment
rate. That rate, in CBO’s forecast, rises to 9.2 percent by early 2010 (up from a low of 4.4 percent at the
end of 2006) but is still below the 10.8 percent rate seen near the end of the 1981–1982 recession.
“In preparing its economic forecast, CBO assumes that current laws and policies governing federal spending and
taxes do not change. This forecast, therefore, does not include the effects of a possible fiscal stimulus package.
On that basis, CBO anticipates that real GDP will drop by 2.2 percent in calendar year 2009, a steep decline.
CBO expects the economy to begin a slow recovery in the second half of 2009 and to grow by a modest 1.5 percent
in 2010.”
All of this staggering debt for nothing.

By: mad

mad — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:28 +0000

That right wingers are upset we can no longer torture people…
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This administration will do whatever it takes when the time comes.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:52:50 +0000

Increasing troops to Afghanistan is a great idea if Obama wants to pass Bush in stupidity. Every sane person needs to register as independents to send a message that idiots should not have power.

By: Fascist Hyena

Fascist Hyena — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:21:25 +0000

“Because the field of battle and the having someone under your custody are different circumstances with different rules of conduct.”
Eh? Can you give us a citation to these differing sets of rules?
“That innocent civilians can be killed on the field of battle is a reason not to enter into war on a whim or based on false pretenses like Iraq.”
But this is a war that Mr. Obama supported, and has escalated. It used to be in Afghanistan; now it is largely in Pakistan. Has the U.N. approved this action? Does that matter?
And what would be his defense to a charge of murder? No one seems willing or able to respond…