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Obama orders more troops to Afghanistan
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Julian E. Barnes and Greg Miller
The Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2009
President Obama ordered his first major deployment of U.S. combat troops Tuesday, authorizing 17,000 additional soldiers and Marines for Afghanistan in what he described as an urgent bid to stabilize a deteriorating and neglected country.
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The deployment will double the number of American combat brigades in the nation at a time of tension with Afghanistan’s weak government over civilian casualties of the campaign against the increasingly bold Taliban, and concern over neighboring Pakistan’s ability to fight Islamic militants based there.
In a statement announcing the troop increase, Obama directed veiled criticism at the Bush administration, noting that a request from Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, had been pending for months.
“This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires,” Obama said.
In undertaking the “solemn duty” to dispatch troops to war, Obama also delved into one of the main issues of his long presidential campaign. While denouncing the Iraq war as a mistake, Obama repeatedly pledged to refocus on Afghanistan.
Though fulfilling requests submitted by U.S. commanders, Tuesday’s order leaves crucial questions of strategy and tactics unanswered until a strategy review is completed in April. In a hint that his strategy would include more than military power, Obama said he would “employ all elements” of U.S. government resources to meet achievable goals, with help from U.S. allies.
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February 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
REPENT.UNITE.RESIST.
GlobalChampion Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 3:54 am
REPENT.UNITE.DIE Youre all fools. Half of you retards believe in witchcraft and Satanic rituals. Moronic sheep. Realize when your fighting the NWO your fighting humanity, and its strides towards success and prosperity. No, you would rather all live in a world plagued with war famine and disease so you can have your diluted sense of freedom. Jokes all of you. WAKE UP!
Freedom Fighter Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I agree. I Lover Chem Trails seemingly takes a very violent approach to (at this point) a non-violent enemy.
daddy Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 am
yeah were fighting humanity,u stupid f---.gd sometimes i feel like 93% of us need 2 go.how can u be so fukin stupid though?on the real.i really didnt know it was possable.just breath deep dumfuk for all of us cause when we fight the nwo were definatley not fighting chemtrails.we love to breath that s--- u fukn pansey.must be like 12 cause u sure as fuk dont know whats really goin on.breath deep bitch n suck up all the barium,alluminum,titanium,n the bio weapon that causes morgellons so we dont have to.c---.
daddy Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 am
TO THE GLOBAL CHAMP
masterkyiron Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:09 am
http://www.healthfreedom.org dr laibow needs you to sign ,farmers under attack from monsanto!obamas criminals to pass bill in 2 weeks !hurry
Jayno Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Divide and conquer your doing a pretty good job there GLOBALchampion… Not good enough tho. Try again…
And yes the NWO are Satanists. Good vs Evil. Humanity is the vehicle, it’s pretty simple actually…
February 18th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Well, there’s another campaign promise broken. Wonder if he’ll really restore Habeas Corpus or if that was just another line of BS.
REALity American Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Everyone knew his military mindset was on Afghanistan, he did not break a promise, he fulfilled it.
Brian M. Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Of Course! Perpetuate The War, Perpetuate The Lie…. Right out of the globalist/CFR playbook. Mr. Ineligible hardly at work. Our tax $$$ being squandered and lives wasted.
half truth Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
he sounds exactly like bush when iraq started. what, you didnt think this administration had planned to make their money from this war? listen, the war was on almost a hold status in a sense in afghanistan. if they would have put the effort and troops on ground years ago it would have been just like iraq now. troops pulling out soon. bush and his people made their money with contracts and such. the bases arent ready to hold an already crowded over population of troops. which means a new bread of companies ready if not already started to increase the size of the bases. more contracts……….more money…………..more american lives.
this decision should have been made years ago. it was drawn up years ago. just not ready. now with the “yes we can” in office the answer to more troops and contracts is “yes we can and will”
February 18th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Well come on mothers throughout the land
pack your boys* off to Viet Nam
Come on come on, don’t hesitate
send ‘em off, before it’s too late
Be the first one on your block
to have your boy come home in a box
msmadame Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I hope there will not be a draft. I would hate to have a teen-aged child.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what section or clause is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battle in any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?” – Daniel Webster
truth Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
true talk Webster.
Brian M. Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Webster was ahead of his time.
Unohoo Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
He is still dead before your time, and they have been taking the young for 5000 years and more . . . and that was before his time. so stop trying to suggest it’s something new, because unlike you, those that go to Afghanistan aren’t brain washed yet. The times are different from when you where propagandized or indoctrinated. I say the real threat is our boarder with Mexico and the security of the American people. The real issues aren’t abroad, the are here in our own government.
Big Lou 777 Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
The real issues are right under your nose, in your local neighborhood and in Washington.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
No surprise here at all.
But he can hide behind his charming smile and African American voters (yes – I said it – and the other drones who thought he would be a good doer)
truth Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I didnt vote Ian. But check this mostly every tom dick and harry voted for the baggar. white, asian, caucasian,latino. The world approved and the llluminati got em in. So all African American crap is BS. You saw the coverage of NOV4. Give me your conclusion. By the way he aint the first black president and it aint Clinton just because he got his dick suck and puffed a little weed but didnt inhale.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
yes more troops so more can die .. how lovely
id stick to the UAV’s to do the job cos I dont think the troops are cutting it .
February 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
most everything Alex Jones is saying and reporting on is true! I can believe that! Obama is a fake! He represents the offshore bankers! The problem is, for the truth movement, is Alex Jones and Ron Paul as well! Do you realize, that if we ever go back to a gold standard and back the treasury with gold and silver it would be looted in almost a matter of minutes? There is not enough gold and sliver or rubies and gems to go around! This is a big part of the other scam! The John Birch Society Council On Foreign Realtions Front Jesuit Nazi Co-Adjutor CIA Operation Mockingbird Bait and Switch Program, to bring you the next Ronald Reagan! Now! We’ve got worse than Jimmy Carter! So here we go again! So before you ban my post take a listen if you can! Print the paper! End The Fed! Nationalize The bank instead of having a private Fed and print the paper with no allegiances to Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, God of Horus or any of them! PRINT THE PAPER AND PUMP IT OUT TO EVERYBODY! If I was President, I would literally get a leaf blower machine and go out on parades and pump the paper out to everybody! Give EVERYBODY all the paper they want! Then! People could have their own livlihoods back and do extradinary fantastic accomplishments and produce things unlike the world has ever seen! In the 1930’s and 50’s, it was projected we would be like The Jetsons by the 1980’s! Not happening because of The New World Order! We could be like or similar to that of Star Trek! Not happening because business as usual and worse! The radio is controlled and we are being controlled! Like Dr. McCoy said on Star Trek: ‘What is this! The Damned Mid Evil Ages?’ So we need an Agent Provacateur to tell us what is going on? Wake up America! You damned right I’m a protectionist! Not The Pat Buchannon kind! Capt Kirk: “In my century we don’t use money!” “It’s no longer about the accuisition of wealth! Capt. Jean Luc Picard Where we going to get the truth? Radio posing as our saviors? The problem also, we don’t even know right from wrong anymore!
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Well I can’t say that the troops are getting the shaft.
They go into it all on their own.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
God help us all, the evil is all around us…its disgusting
Elvis Reply:
February 24th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
stop waiting for someone else to help you moron.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:44 am
The troops are a military liability to the new tyranny, therefore a sacrifice. They serve criminals-and the criminals fear their awakening. Afganistan, Pakistan wherever. A blood sacrifice. They are there to die. Nothing less will do. A half a million american soldiers at home in the USA would not stand by and watch there children starve and shipped into safe-T camps. Neither will our sailors, hence the newly built five nuclear submarines scheduled for completion 2012 in London’s shipyards will be unleashed. Scoundrals.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I do not think there is really any other way to interpret this but as major preparation for an invasion of Pakistan.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:55 am
How tragic Afghanistan will be Vietnam 3!
Brian M. Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Haven’t we been there long enough? Both of these wars are built on a false flag premise, so yes, they are Nam like to a certain degree as to length of time.
brigitte yee Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:34 am
well, why did you vote for the “christian” who goes by a muslim name, who won’t produce a birth certificate to prove otherwise, whos friends and cabinet are all criminals and tax dodgers?
February 19th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Oh the ‘Poppy Wars’; they don’t let anyone ‘jump connection’ in Afghanistan. You know they don’t let any cocky countries go in there and take the opiates; if a tribe tries to do it, the rest of the nations ‘gang-bangem”; we’re so screwed. God help us all…
nicoleiosis Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:49 am
I so agree…..that there is the #1 source of heroin……i never see commercials about not doing crack or heroin or meth but all the time its “dont smoke weed” its all about population control….alcohol kills people, cigs kill people crack cocaine heroin…and people kill people…
jimi said”when the power of love overcomes the love of power. the world will know peace.”
February 19th, 2009 at 9:57 am
The truth will set us free and it’s hard to tell whether we are getting it or not.
I haven’t seen any signs.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I told my homeboy who just got back from Iraq a couple days ago that they were most likely going to Afganistan in a few months , he said I was crazy…. I told him “you need to get out ASAP”
February 19th, 2009 at 11:33 am
……..but he PROMISED he would end the war.
i wonder if he made other PROMISES that he did not keep?
what do you think?
funny Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 am
promises don’t mean anything when they come out from behind the teeth of a liar, traitor, and a puppet. Anything he says i don’t believe. His words are poison.
nicoleiosis Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:52 am
im sorry but they’ll say anything to get into office poli means many and tics are blood sucking creatures its all about money and power there is no love…
February 19th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Its sad the amount of our Brothers and Sisters we have already lost…
The Dark shall be Served sweet and fair justice for the great many deaths on their shoulders.
I am truelly divided on Afghanistan, unfortunately the elites have messed it up so badly on purpose that it may not be solved for a great many years.
May god watch over all of OUR true-warriors.
They are our brothers and sisters, from many nations – Not the Darks, the dark have no relation to true humanity.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
They say they ae rebuilding Iraq with 50 billion dollars.Hmm, with the pictures I saw of those huts.We could have redone Iraq with a shoestring budget. It is a total joke.
funny Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 am
i guess they’re using the money to rebuild the poppy fields.
nicoleiosis Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:54 am
what about the people here who are suffering….why is the government not worried about the people who live here with all the helping we do for other countries no wonder why we are broke!!
February 19th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Make your own fliers and spread the word! Here is my flier and I put them on cars, in books, at college campuses, magazines, every!!!!!! It works!!!!!!!!!!
Care about the loss of your constitution and know what your government is up to!
Watch these videos (youtube) and spread the word
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex
JFK Blows The Whistle on Secret Societies!
America freedom to fascism Clinton Chronicles Patriotism by Ron Paul
Loose change 9-11 Alex Jones / Dark Secret Inside the Bohemian Grove Part 1
Bilderberg exposed – Part 1/6 Blackwater: Shadow Army The Truth & Lies of 9/11
We Are Change Interviews 9/11 Whistleblower part 1 of 6
Exposing the Illuminati from Within Part 1
Those who gave their lives for these stories deserve to be heard!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
It is almost as if they are waiting for us to do something drastic. We all think everyday about how this mad life really should be. If 305 mill tomorrow decide not to take part any longer, then and only then will their truly be justice on this continent. Everybody who is on the ball, and at least not choosing to become abused, manipulated, or a willing servant WILL NEVER have this decade load of bad spiritual karma upon their heart & consciousness. For that is the only things we have left, and they cannot kill someone who is already dead. 9/11 INSIDE JOB: Down the rabbit hole here we go, where it takes (us) nobody knows!
Kevin
February 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:08 am
when the taliban were incontrol, herion export was low.
now that there dien lots of herion yeah.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 am
funny how all the obamaniacs were so excited about having a new president and they were all crying “oh change has come…..WAHH…*sniff*…” and obama promised to end the war. But yet, the people still love him. crazy world we live in.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 am
Take heart fellow country women and men we have just extracted a promise from the CHINESE leadership they will continue to finance our overseas adventures by buying our debts as long as we in turn will faithfully keep buying thier junk – melamine with everything and suchlike – to keep our
97 CENTS and DOLLAR STORES well stocked with merchandise.
As we keep dropping chemical laden bombs on the Children and Women in Afghanistan and Iraq and actively seeking out more locations in the world to shower more phosphorus and such other chemicals on them.
While we are busy with these adventures our money lenders – the Chinese – are busy building up their spheres of influence all OVER THE WORLD and beyond in the universe.
ALL IT WILL NEED TO VANQUISH US WILL BE TO STOP FINANCING US AT THE RIGHT MOMENT IN TIME AND WE ARE DONE.
PLEASE think about it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 am
Hell yeah!
There’s more drugs to sell there than iraq!
PUFF,PUFF,GIVE!
Obammy, bush, clintons< world drug lords!
VOTER FRAUD IS A BITCH!
ONE COMPUTER CHIP CONTROLS THE WORLD!
There will be no stop untill the s--- hits the fan!
Go out and get some bullets in your hand!
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 am
I remember during the campaign Mr Obama said if elected president he “would bring the troops home” WHOO WHOO applause. Now that his presidency is secure there is an entirely different reality happening in Afghanistan. Andnow for how long??? This Blood and Body Sacrifice is dead WRONG!! Help!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
The new boss looks like the same as the old boss, I’ll keep my money, guns and freedom and you can keep the change !
GOD BLESS OUR BATTLE FOR THE REPUBLIC !!
Freedom Fighter Reply:
February 24th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no “God” exists.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Wouldn’t want the Queen’s Imperial dope patch to fall into the hands of the Taliban now would we?
February 24th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Maybe another 17000 moron/rapist/murderers will be able to find Osama.
Thats why AmerKKKa is there right ?
Lets do some simple conservative math….17000 troops at $10 a day. Thats over $5000000 a month.
No wonder you need to print more money.
AmerKKKa is the dumbest country on the planet. You people deserve what you get.
The rest of the world is laughing at you.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
“R”……. Stands for RETARD.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
A Letter to Another President, Thomas Jefferson
Dear Mr. President:
Firstly, please forgive me for my lack of writing skill. The Federal government now “educates” its citizenry, thus the quality of the modern American man’s mind has suffered accordingly. You may be shocked to learn that education is now in the hands of politicians, something never intended or even allowed by you or your contemporaries, but much has changed since you have passed on. Your post-revolution political foes, the Federalists, have since taken over and paved the way for a new type of government similar in some ways to Monarchism, called Marxism, that is now the rule of the land. There is much pretense among America’s current rulers that adherence to your beloved Constitution and Bill of Rights is still followed, but alas, it is but a package of lies meant to soothe the soulless, guilty hearts of the deluded, state-dependent slaves. Additionally, and more importantly, these falsehoods are also in place to placate those who may revolt if the true nature of our former Constitutional Republic are discovered.
Indeed, up to this point, I myself was fooled by the words of these charlatans, but a new leader has emerged which paints a clearer picture of the real agenda of the regime. Throughout my life I was under the false assumption that while our government may have some unconstitutional warts, generally the spirit of what you and others had started, remained. No more. The Monarchy of England exists to this day, but one would be hard pressed to tell the difference between their form of government and ours, minus the pretense previously mentioned. Even the Second Amendment, generally agreed by those who still have a concept of real freedom to be the most important right, has been emasculated to the point where a Citizen risks arrest by simply appearing outside their home in possession of a firearm in many places. There is an outright ban on handguns in the District of Columbia and other areas, and the current Executive Leader, a terribly vain, elitist man whose name I will not utter, has maintained that this ruling falls within the constraints of the Second Amendment. A deranged man shot and killed several defenseless people at a University in your home state because they were not legally able to defend themselves, and not surprisingly, the government used this atrocity to create more laws to disarm its Citizenry in the name of safety. The current climate is such that if a citizen wishes to defend himself instead of relegating his own safety to the authorities he is viewed in popular culture to be soft-headed.
The Federal government of the United States has put upon We the People the burden of social and corporate welfare, ensuring that a large segment of society and companies that would not survive on their own are now fully dependent on the government teat, stifling creativity, self-reliance, self-determination and self-worth on a massive scale. It funds this with a progressive income tax, which as you know is not one of your intentions, but one of the Marxists, and is the second plank of their manifesto. Another tax with which the Federal government has burdened the People is called the Social Security Tax, a tax meant to collectively bond the aged to the government until death, and then an inheritance tax to hold them in bondage in the afterlife and rid their heirs of the rights of inheritance. This helps to enslave their survivors in the welfare system, creating justification for the existence of the government’s current policies.
It has become embroiled in foreign entanglements, something I’m sure you’ll remember George Washington warning the nation of in his farewell address, to the point that our own national security is threatened. It uses eminent domain, not to acquire needful military buildings, ports and infrastructure, but to improve its own tax base and destroying sacred property rights in the process. It has taken control of the free market to the point that it is no longer free and on the verge of collapse, and has sought to remedy the situation by controlling it further and spending more of its Citizen’s money on schemes that will only worsen the problem.
It has rewritten history to the point that when your name is mentioned, more attention is paid to your illegitimate children than to the fact that you helped bring about a type of government that has never before existed in the course of human events, one that is governed of, by, and for the People. Your ideas are dismissed by some, saying that a slave owner couldn’t know anything about freedom, ignoring the inner turmoil you experienced because they are ignorant of history. Even the word “liberal” has been corrupted so that it no longer defines someone who loves liberty as you would use the word but it is now meant to describe someone who liberally spends the money of those who have earned it on those who haven’t.
As a fellow Deist, I too believe in an afterlife and hope that it is infinitely more exciting than looking back on the plight of those of us still on Earth. I pray you finally know what it is to be truly free and are enjoying it to the fullest. Even so, please take a moment to look back at what you have created and what it has become and, if there is any way, infect the spirit of anyone who will listen on this planet with your own. Wake up those who have eyes to see and remind them again that an occasional revolution is a good thing.
Very Truly Yours,
John Volz
Publisher of RantNation.com
A 21st Century Printing Press and an Advocate for Freedom
February 25th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Is anyone here mature enough to recognize the value of the following words of Jesus?
Luke 6:27-31 “…I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
Is that complicated?! What if everyone DID this? Don’t think of yourself as a “Christian” if you are not mature enough to follow your Master!
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