July 2011 Deadline Might Bring Home Just ‘A Few Thousand’ Troops
EmailHow many troops will come home from America’s longest war when we reach that July 2011 deadline for a “transition?” In an EXCLUSIVE interview with This Week anchor Jake Tapper, Vice President Biden said “It could be as few as a couple thousand troops.”
Tapper asked the Vice President about his remarks that appeared in Jonathan Alter’s new book, The Promise. “In July of 2011 you’re going to see a whole lot of people moving out. Bet on it,” the Vice President told Alter.
Biden clarified: “If you read three or four paragraphs above that, Jonathan was making a very valid point. He was saying a lot in the military think they outmaneuvered the president to render the July date meaningless. And I was saying that’s simply not true.”
“The military signed on. Petraeus signed on. Everybody signed onto not a deadline, but a transition, a beginning of a transition,” Biden said.
Tapper pressed him – but what did he mean when he said “a whole lot of people” would be “moving out” of Afghanistan?
“What I was responding to was the idea that the president had been outmaneuvered. I was saying make it clear. And so it — it wasn’t so much numbers I meant. It could be as few as a couple thousand troops. It could be more. But there will be a transition,” Biden said.
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you’re wondering about troops getting out of Afghanistan in 2011…seems to me I remember a promise that troops would be out of Iraq by this summer, Gitmo would be closed…etc, etc hmmm yet no stories, no complaints…if Bush were still president y’all would be jumping up and down and foaming at the mouth…hypocrites
Posted by: samhiguchi | July 18, 2010, 9:40 am 9:40 am
No one really seems to care.. now that the ‘W’ isn’t at the helm.
Posted by: Dontget818 | July 18, 2010, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Why doesn’t the clown in the White House just level with the American people instead of trying to B.S. all of us?
Posted by: Steve | July 18, 2010, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm
Laughable.
Posted by: Feralcat | July 18, 2010, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
Circa 2012:
Just about for years ago I set out on Obama’s Afghanistan road,
Seekin’ my fame and glory, lookin’ to turn the mullah’s hemorrhoid into a pot of gold.
Well, things got bad, and things got worse, I guess you will know the tune.
Oh ! lord, stuck in Obama’s Afghanistan yet again.
Flew in yet again on a big plane, I hope I’ll be in one piece flyin out when I go.
I was yet again just passin’ through, must now be yet another 3 tours or more.
Running out of time and patience ["Not to complain but whatever the hell happened to my youth?!"], looks like they took still more of my friends.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Obama’s Afghanistan yet again.
The Hope and Change man in the White House said yet again I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost his connection, he ran out of words to say.
I came into Kabul, yet another one year stand, looks like the plans fell through yet again
Oh ! lord, stuck in Obama’s Afghanistan yet again.
Mmmm…
If I only had a woman ["Hey Jack, do you remember what a woman is?"], for evry Obama tour Ive done.
And evry time Ive had to fight while ‘s Obama and Biden sat back home confused and power drunk.
You know, Id like to catch the next plane back to where Im from.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Obama’s Afghanistan yet again.
Oh ! lord, Im stuck in Obama’s Afghanistan yet again.
- CCR Soldier Boy
Posted by: Feralcat | July 18, 2010, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
Does he really get a pass on EVERYTHING???
Posted by: Texanne | July 18, 2010, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
What does it say about Jake that Biden is able to fool him constantly?
Posted by: JasonJabber | July 18, 2010, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm
Somewhere I lost his connection, he ran out of words to say.
I came into Kabul, yet another one year stand, looks like the plans fell through yet again
Posted by: tiffany and co | July 19, 2010, 3:03 am 3:03 am
Bring home a few thousand… hey why not, that way we can claim we met our promise while still doing what is necessary to avoid a humiliating rout… so a few extra guys get killed, we are the noble ones, we are the ruling class, better they should die to preserve our face…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | July 19, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH OUR CAMPAIGNER-IN-CHIEF IN OFFICE.
THIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION WILL DO OR SAY ANYTHING TO STAY IN POWER.
Posted by: THIS IS THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY | July 20, 2010, 10:36 am 10:36 am
looks like the plans fell through yet again
Posted by: lucyroos | August 24, 2010, 2:25 am 2:25 am
American people instead of trying to B.S. all of us?
Posted by: godswmobile | September 9, 2010, 4:29 am 4:29 am