Related: Americans Turn Against Afghan War
Makes the Globe website on a Saturday, but nothing in the printed paper, 'eh, Globe? Why am I even bothering to buy that shit rag anymore?
"Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase" by Lolita C. Baldor and Ken Thomas, Associated Press Writers | September 5, 2009
WASHINGTON --Senate Democrats are signaling that any push by the White House for more troops in Afghanistan probably will run into resistance....
But I'm sure they will be approved anyway.
As war-weary Americans have watched 21,000 more troops go to Afghanistan this year, and U.S. casualties rise, support for the war has waned....
A Failed Democracy
Their unease follows a NATO airstrike early Friday on hijacked fuel tankers that killed as many as 70 people....
The airstrike comes just as U.S. defense leaders insisted this past week that troops were making great progress in stemming civilian deaths....
The hesitancy to boost troops levels comes just days after Obama's defense chief suggested a willingness to consider an increase....
And they will get it.
I've had six years of this kind of s*** fooleys, and I'm no longer eating.
