Report: U.S. plans 'substantial increase' in Afghanistan troops

[laststeamtrain]

Source: USA Today

Report: U.S. plans 'substantial increase' in Afghanistan troops

The BBC is reporting that the Obama administration has told British officials that it will announce a "substantial increase" in U.S. forces for Afghanistan.

The report, attributed to British sources, follows today's announcement that 500 additional British troops would be sent to Afghanistan if certain conditions are met.

According to the BBC's Newsnight program, "the US could next week announce plans to send up to 45,000 extra servicemen and women."

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed the report, saying President Obama has made no final decision on troop numbers.

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/10/report-us-plans-substantial-increase-in-afghanistan-troops.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Besides McMclean ,who wants more troops?Not Afghanis ,not the budget,

Who the fu*k besides the 1% want 40 thousand more? Nairobi?

[blm]

2. The hawks won - Gates, Clinton, Holbrooke, Emmanuel won out over Biden, Kerry.

Sad. And a bad decision by Obama that he may soon regret.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Vietnam REDUX

Vietnam War Picture: General William Westmoreland and President Lyndon B. Johnson



Picture courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

General William Westmoreland and President Lyndon B. Johnson at Cam Ranh Bay. (December 23, 1967)

[tekisui]

7. One Term Obama.

[kenny blankenship]

16. But he'll be a SHOE-IN for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize !

Two -TWO- Nobel Prizes for peace. Won't that look fine?

(My money has been on a troop increase of 20,000 - high 25k, low 15k. But 45,000 - now that would exceed expectations!)

[orpupilofnature57]

10. What were they talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuvGEdR0THc&feature=related

[blm]

20. Correction....Emanuel reportedly shifted to Biden's position against increase in troops.

I'm no fan of Emanuel but, fair is fair.

[IndianaGreen]

3. We need our troops to protect the corrupt narco-trafficker Karzai in power

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Thats why JFK ,up front no hidden Agenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuvGEdR0THc&feature=related

[DURHAM D]

17. India. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

18. Thats true

[villager]

5. Why, how wonderfully "changey!"

n/t

[tekisui]

6. I saw it coming, but this is horrible.

I think this decision could limit Obama to one term. He is on the side of the repukes and neo-cons.

When I heard the updated 'leak' of McCrystal requesting up to 80,000, I knew Obama was going to go with the high end of 40,000.

[blm]

22. I actually thought Biden, Kerry and Reed would influence him more than Clinton, Holbrooke, Gates

and McChrystal.

If Obama decided to increase military presence in Afghanistan then I was wrong in my thinking that hawks would take a backseat in this WH.

[timeforpeace]

9. Isn't it interesting how Obama's "decisions" are never announced, just leaked? Is Helen Thomas right

about the courage thing? When has he announced a real decision on a big subject, as opposed to announcing an idea or an intention or a hope?

[blm]

23. Something odd is going on...and I think some of it is meant to undermine Obama, not help him.

The hawks have been at these manipulative games for decades, and they have corpmedia at their beck and call.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

How many more need to be destroyed?

Even the ones who are never hurt never come home the same. It's not right!

[orpupilofnature57]

14. Absolutely ,There aren't enough bodies to fill the subtle ,but constant

and ambiguous reasons.

[MetaTrope]

12. It's unfortunate that Obama is a totally powerless and impotent leader

who could never stop this, or even say anything against it, no matter how much he desperately wants to.

Even Nixon was able to end a war.

[orpupilofnature57]

15. The 1% would revolt

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

21. What An Absolutely Retarded Set Of Statements.

[Knight Hawk]

13. What?

Say it ain't so.

[laststeamtrain]

19. BBC report: link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8308133.stm