Scrubbed with new source of same story coming

[Orwellian_Ghost]

[tekisui]

1. I think he underestimates the cost.

And, the acceptance of the American people.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Does this have a death count translation, meaning, does it give

us a number of how many people we have to kill in order to achieve the objective?? How many misguided souls who will have to take a dirt nap because they believe they are fighting the great satan, because they believe they are protecting their country from an invading force?

[liberal N proud]

3. How much health care could that pay for?

How many mouths could that feed?
How many children could that educate?
How many jobs could that provide?
How much research to end our dependence on oil could that pay for?
How much research to end cancer and other disease could that pay for?

How much longer are we going to stand for this?



ENOUGH!

[csziggy]

12. +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Fumesucker]

4. That works out to about $1,800 per year per Afghan..

Average income of Afghanistan now is about $280 per year..

It would be much cheaper to just give them $1000 each per year and wouldn't cost a crap load of lives.

[spanone]

5. mccaffrey foams at the mouth for war....there is no 'win' there. no nation building.

mccaffrey is retired, not the commander in afghanistan

[kenny blankenship]

6. McCaffrey is not the US commander in Afghanistan

nor in "Af-Pak" -as it is imperially designated- nor at the Malabar Front.

Maybe the story should say the US commander in Afghanistan faces blah blah, acc. to Gen. Barry McCaffrey, US Army ret.

Subject line needs to avoid erroneously identifying McCaffrey as the commander.

[subcomhd]

9. The story is from the web magazine of the John Birch Society

Why anybody would post that here is beyond me.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

16. Oops

thought it was from the wire.

Oh well here's the link from the Meet the Press roundtable:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33253216/ns/meet_the_press/page/2/

[kenny blankenship]

18. Did they misquote McCaffrey? The interesting thing to me is what he said

Not who noticed it. I haven't seen any other stories about McCaffrey's estimate, which sounds wildly optimistic to me as far as the projected success. Presumably the Birchers are all for it. As for his cost estimate, that's probably his blue sky figure for how much more borrowed/stolen money and blood they could possibly pour down this shithole before the American people revolt and set up a guillotine on the DC Mall.

[subcomhd]

21. I never made it past "New American." nt

[doc03]

7. Will (anyone) ask how it will be paid for? n/t

[subcomhd]

8. The New American? do you know what you posted a link to?

nt

[rug]

10. Whatever is going on there, it's not a war.

A war would not take 10 years and $600,000,000,000 to resolve. Any state would succumb to that. And without a state to fight, it's not a war. It is something else, something else that requires something other than convential military planning.

[Jane Austin]

11. That's nuts on the face of it.

Barry McCaffrey has been retired for many years.

Ed: I hope more will un-recommend this. It is false and from a RW site.

[subcomhd]

13. It's from the John Birch Society. And it's on DU. nt

[Jane Austin]

14. Why have you brought a false article from

a discredited RW group to DU?

We don't need this crap here.

[subcomhd]

15. eh hem, why are you posting John Birch Society propaganda?

Did you just grab the first Obama bashing thing you saw without noticing it was from the john Birch Society? hmm

[Orwellian_Ghost]

17. Nah

It's just a story from Meet the Press a vital organ of state propaganda.

Focus on the message. If the source bothers ya I'll pull it and re-post the Meet the Press story.

How do you feel about the Afghanistan occupation?

[subcomhd]

20. A story from Meet the Press it is not.

It is a story ABOUT Meet the Press "Written by Thomas R. Eddlem" of the John Birch Society's "New American" right wing web page. Interesting choice.

[DefenseLawyer]

19. Well I just happened to stumble upon the website of the John Birch Society...

You know, just randomly...