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"First batch of extra U.S. troops in east Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 27 (Reuters) --The first deployment of a planned United States surge of up to 30,000 troops, has moved into bases in two key provinces of east Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday....
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And there will be more arrivals in the future:
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RESTORING THE DRAFT: THE UNIVERSAL NATIONAL SERVICE ACT OF 2006
WASHINGTON --Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the Pentagon could send two more brigades to Afghanistan by late spring and a third brigade by late summer in an effort to try to salvage a country besieged by corruption and increasing violence.
More troops could be sent once the Defense Department is able to put a larger infrastructure in place to support them, he added in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee....
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And yet, within a matter of hours, Gates' changed his tune?
US Colonel Greg Julian with Afghan village elders in Inzeri yesterday. US commanders distributed $40,000 and apologized to relatives of 15 people killed in a recent US raid. (Jason Straziuso/Associated Press)
Honestly, I would rather JUST LEAVE and STOP KILLING THEM and THEIR FAMILIES because THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US!!!!
9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!!!!
Besides, when I look at "them" I don't see evil; I SEE EVIL when I look at OUR LEADERS!!!!
So HOW MUCH is YOUR MOTHER'S, DAUGHTER'S, or SON'S LIFE WORTH, American?!!
More than the $2,500 than the PRICELESS AFGHANS LIFE?
I guess that's why Gates is backing off, huh?
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday the United States is "lost" unless it can find a way to not kill so many civilians in the pursuit of militants in Afghanistan, and that flooding the chaotic country with US troops would be a disaster.
Then we HAVE LOST, sir! It is TIME to COME HOME!!!!!!!
THAT is the way to NOT KILL THEM -- as well as CEASING the AIR BOMBINGS!!!!!!
Gates, the only Bush Cabinet member President Barack Obama asked to stay on, told a Senate panel that the Pentagon could send two more brigades to Afghanistan by late spring, and a third by late summer, to try to salvage a war that has ground to a grim standoff with entrenched and resourceful militants.
But Gates said he is deeply skeptical about adding any more US forces after that, in part because military dominion in Afghanistan has failed for every great power that tried it.
Maybe the LIGHT FINALLY WENT ON, huh?
His attitude has certainly changed from earlier in the day.
"The civilian casualties are doing us an enormous harm in Afghanistan, and we have got to do better" to avoid innocent deaths, even though the Taliban militants use civilians as cover, Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He had to spoil it, didn't he?
"My worry is that the Afghans come to see us as part of the problem, rather than as part of their solution. And then we are lost."
They ALREADY DO and we ALREADY ARE!!!!
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The United States should keep its sights on one thing: preventing Afghanistan from being used as a base for terrorists and extremists who would harm the United States or its allies, Gates said.
Pfffffffffffffffttttt!!!!!!
NOT FOOLED by the SHIT FOOLEYS no more!!!
"Afghanistan is the fourth or fifth poorest country in the world, and if we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose," Gates said, referring to a haven of purity in Norse mythology. "Nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience or money, to be honest."
Translation: After DESTROYING THEIR COUNTRY and KILLING MILLIONS of them, we are ABANDONING THEM as if the "problem" can't be solved!
Yup, the GREAT LIBERATORS can't stick it out!!!
Fuck democracy, huh (like that was ever the goal)?
Gates joined US fortunes in Afghanistan to the related struggle against extremism in Pakistan, but signaled no reduction in US missile strikes or other raids that infuriate both populations and besmirch the US-backed governments in Kabul and Islamabad.
That's not the direction I want them going, the mass-murdering scum!
"Both President Bush and President Obama have made clear that we will go after Al Qaeda wherever Al Qaeda is and we will continue to pursue them," Gates said.
Related: Obama Baptizes Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Ahem!
See:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Okay, we clear on "Al-CIA-Duh" and the dead guy?
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also indicated that missile strikes will continue....
To the constellation of problems in Afghanistan - corruption, the flourishing drug trade and the limited competence of the central government - Mullen added that the United States couldn't do as much as it might have liked to counter the resurgence of the Taliban because its troops were tied up in Iraq.And CUI BONO from the DRUG TRADE (those behind it, natch).
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