Huffpo Froomkin: 4 More Years of War

[xiamiam]

"The ever-accumulating case against the war in Afghanistan was bolstered this week by WikiLeaks's dissemination of over 70,000 previously secret reports documenting in vivid and unvarnished detail the brutality and futility of the American mission there.

But even as the public's patience with the war in Afghanistan is growing shorter, the timeline for an American troop withdrawal appears to be growing longer.

There are increasingly clear signs that President Obama's vow to start withdrawing American troops less than a year from now will be fulfilled through a technicality if at all, and that the real timeline for significant troop withdrawal -- barring a change in course -- now extends at least to 2014, if not far beyond.

One signal was Vice President Joe Biden's offhand remark to ABC News earlier this month that the promised summer withdrawal "could be as few as a couple thousand troops" although "it could be more."
more at link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/four-more-years-of-war_n_664853.html

we need an anti war candidate..NOW

[xiamiam]

1. unrec'd in one minute..

[frylock]

2. people don't like to be reminded that they're being shafted

knr

[villager]

3. Well, facts do have a *liberal* bias...

n/t

[lib2DaBone]

4. There are U.S. Troops in 6 countries surrounding Iran....

We have a huge naval fleet just off shore and Israel has been granted fly-over airspace by Saudi Arabia. Hillary is over there (almost every week) stirring the pot and imposing "sanctions" while beating the war drum.

Call me crazy.. but I think we are getting ready to go to war with Iran.

The goal of this war will be to raise the price of oil (which will happen when Iran closes the Straits of Hormuz) so as to rescue the American Dollar as the reserve currency.. and to keep the economy from going into full collapse) (The boys at Goldman-Sachs have it all figured out).

However, once the U.S. enters into potential World War III and sees that we do not have enough troops or money to win the conflict.. we will resort to a nuclear strike.

Pakistan has Nukes and Russia has been giving Iran thousands of Nuke Tipped Sunburn Missiles. There will be retaliation... needless to say.

At this time.. insert head between legs.. kiss ass goodbye... because it's all over for humanity.

[xiamiam]

5. sigh..you are probably right ..we're certainly headed in that direction

such a folly..a wasteful ridiculous humiliating folly