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2011-03-15 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 He'll probably be asking Petreaus to step aside in order that a US State Department appointee can take over. Karzai is playing Obama like a cheap Louisiana fiddle. Karzai whimpers or threatens, Obama immediately shi*s himself. The promise of a US Afghan pull-out could very well be the only good news Obama will have going into 2012. Karzai holds the keys. If it were not for what is taking place at the troop levels with an absolutely and totally corrupt GIRoA (Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan), it might be fun to watch.

My assessment regarding Obama getting the US involved in Libya has so far turned out to be inaccurate. Thankfully, it appears Obama has missed the window on that one. Regretably, news out of Japan has consumed the MSM and legitimate news networks thus providing a convenient cover for Obama's dithering. Obama has returned to the links.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-15 00:38|| 2011-03-15 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 To give him what for for not getting enough Americans killed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-15 05:32|| 2011-03-15 05:32|| Front Page Top

#3 More like, for killing too many Taliban

Posted by lotp 2011-03-15 08:27|| 2011-03-15 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 He'll probably be asking Petreaus to step aside in order that a US State Department appointee can take over.

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. If Petraeus is not engaged in Afghanistan he'll be drafted against Obama in 2012. He'll win. No, Obama's best political interests are to keep the man where he is. He's far less of a political threat gainfully employed at something he feels comfortable doing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-15 09:46|| 2011-03-15 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 It's the same thing, lotp.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-15 11:57|| 2011-03-15 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 He'll probably be asking Petreaus to step aside in order that a US State Department appointee can take over.

If he does I think State should handle the situation with troops of its own.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-15 12:01|| 2011-03-15 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 f he does I think State should handle the situation with troops of its own.

You mean, sort of like a mine clearance brigade?

Posted by Matt 2011-03-15 12:52|| 2011-03-15 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Will Petraeus get a ribbon for this or does it fall under that General Order about putting up with whatever goofy-ass crap your commander thinks up?

Posted by SteveS 2011-03-15 17:25|| 2011-03-15 17:25|| Front Page Top

#9 General Petraeus I must have your honest professional opinion as this situation will come to a point of madness withing a couple of weeks and the staff at the White House is all out of options...Kentucky or North Carolina? Biden said pick the team which wears blue, and after a careful two day study it was concluded that powder blue is, indeed, a type of blue, so we are back to square one.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-15 17:30|| 2011-03-15 17:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Didn't know Petraeus was a golfer...

(And no disrespect to the General.)

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-03-15 17:47|| 2011-03-15 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Might be an interview.
Gates is stepping down, who better a SECdef to get votes in 2012 after pulling out of AFG in 2011?

Posted by Skidmark 2011-03-15 22:46|| 2011-03-15 22:46|| Front Page Top

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