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How Can Obama “Listen to the General” In Charge of Afghanistan If He Has Only Spoken to Him Once?
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Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am | 74 views
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Pish posh- oba mao hasn’t time to dilly dally talking about the well being of baby killers in some far away land called avgoneistahn, he has important things to do- like jetting off to Denmark to make a plea for his fake home town to get the budget crushing olympic games!
So Obama has spoken to David Letterman more than he has spoken to his general in charge of the war effort in Afghanistan.
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He’s saving Afghanistan for the proper time to distract from something else, and to undercut the political opposition by showing how involved he is in the military. He doesn’t lie, he is “evaluating the situation,” it’s just that you can’t assume you know what he means by “situation.”
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Nice that the Olympics in Chicago are more important than war.
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Good thing elections don’t matter – but they do. Who ever voted for Obama will have to live with that decision.
Obama talks and does not listen. Surprised?
I am not.
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How long did it take Bush to listen to our military leaders and commit more troops to Iraq? That we are in this situation at all is that GB didn’t listen to our military leaders before going into Iraq and didn’t send the number of troops they asked for to start with. And he took troops from Afghanistan that we are now talking about putting back.
@Joe Smith:
Tommy Franks has a different view. He has told the American people that he used 9,000 plus U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan, at the start of OIF 10,000 U.S. troops were fighting in Afghanistan. Now, how many troops has Obama sent over to bring the troop strength up to a bit over 60,000, 21,000? Leaves me to believe that in spite of the number of troops in Iraq, GWB had increased troop strength over the years in Afghanistan.
Tommy Franks has also spoken against the Shinseki, Powell myth that an “overwhelming force” ground troop strength was asked for in the run up to OIF. He has stated often times and written in his book, “American Soldier” that he had the troops he wanted and needed, if he wanted more the Bush Admin would have provided them.
President Bush did listen to his generals, ask Casey and Sanchez why they were replaced by Petraeous and Odiarno after their policies failed. I seem to remember Petraeous had a COIN plan he presented to P Bush prior to being given the job, there P Bush goes, listening to his commanders again.
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