Obama OKs Troop Surge In Afghanistan

Barack Obama Afghanistan  President Barack Obama will send 17000 more troops to Afghanistan this spring.
by The Associated Press
Published: Tue, February 17, 2009 - 3:13 pm CST
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense and congressional officials say
President Barack Obama has approved an increase in U.S. forces for
the flagging war in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday or
Wednesday that it will send one additional Army brigade and an
unknown number of Marines to Afghanistan this spring. One official,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said the total is about 17,000
troops.
That would be the first installment on a larger influx of U.S.
forces that have been widely expected this year. It would get a few
thousand troops in place in time for the increase in fighting that
usually comes with warmer weather and ahead of national elections
this summer.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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I wish some of the liberal Obama backers on here would please get on here and state the difference in these two wars.  I really don’t think they can, they would do the same as most kool-aid drinkers, repeat the same old stump speeches and rhetoric that Obama and the Democrats do everyday.  Bushes war, Inherited, Last Administration, Same Old Politics of the Past.  Gibbs should just walk into the briefing room and hit play on a tape player let these just repeat for about 30 minutes and then walk out. Would be just as informative.

Anyone else see that crazy Cindy Sheehan blasting Barack Hussein Obama as a war monger?  Doesn’t take long for the radical leftist fringe to jump ship, does it?

Once you are on the spending roll, you’ll never get off.

Obama is trying to appease his liberal base by changing the vernacular concerning war.  We now have “man-caused disasters” and “overseas contingency operations” instead of terrorist bombings and war.

Rumor has it that soon the term “hand-to-hand combat” will be changed to “pattycake, pattycake.”

None, no difference, notta, just semantics by the current administration, if Bush was pulling this slight of hand type bs the press and democrats would be all up in arms and protesting.  Where are the war protesters at now?  Obama just move the troops from one war to another, why aren’t they protesting him?  Hypocrites all of them.

What’s the difference between sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq?  Troops sent out . . . are sent away from home, it doesn’t matter where they are sent.  I don’t know that one place is better than the other.

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