escalation in afghanistan in support of our puppet gov? and pakistan?

continuing military presence in iraq? while blaming the iraqis for current problems?

as i recall, even bush when he was campaigning in 2000 sounded better than this. my head hurts.

this is the most depressing thing i’ve heard since.. ok, it’s only been since the dems in congress trashed the constitution and justfied it as good policy.

course i’m only up to 23 minutes.

If the “mission” is to use Afghanistan as a base to attack the “terrorist” isolated in the mountainous border region, how in fact will he do that.

His op-ed piece contains stereotypical assertions and strategies mouthed by the same people that brought us the Iraq debacle.
Is everyone ready for an unlimited timeframe and ill-defined “mission” in Afghanstan with the necessary commitment of troops and money to complete whatever is the “mission?”
I have these questions from his op-ed:
Does “the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban” have any concrete meaning in relationship to our mission in Afghanistan? Is it possible to be successful when there is wide-spread support for those groups in both Afghanistan and Pakistan?

When Obama says, “Nearly every threat we face — from Afghanistan to Al Qaeda to Iran ” does he believe we face a threat from Iran? Do we?

Was this ever a real problem and is his statement true, “the Sunni tribes have rejected Al Qaeda.”

It is almost laughable that he has this statement from, “Lt. Gen. James Dubik, the American officer in charge of training Iraq’s security forces, estimates that the Iraqi Army and police will be ready to assume responsibility for security in 2009.”
After billions of dollars and multiple similar assertions, is there any reason to believe this one?

This is another talking point that was never accurate: “residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.” Was or is that the problem or is it the civil war between rival religious and sectarian forces? How big of a factor was “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia?”

Then for the money line he quotes, “Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently pointed out, we won’t have sufficient resources to finish the job in Afghanistan until we reduce our commitment to Iraq.
What is that “job?”

I guess Obama wants to be a wartime president with this characterization: “We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there (Afghanistan).”
Obama goes from “job” to “mission” to “effort” in what amounts to an endless undefined commitment.
Obama ends with, “It’s time to end this war.” And escalate a new war in Afghanistan?
I found the op-ed disingenuous.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21…..0#25689940

http://my.barackobama.com/page…..ott/gGxkFr