Friday, March 06, 2009

Troops out When?

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Obama’s Promise

When President Obama revealed there’d be 50-thousand american troops in Iraq until at least the end of 2011, many noted it was a different result than what he’d promised during the campaign about getting out of Iraq…but a lot of Rappers believe he’s still holding to his pledge.  Here we go…
That sounds like a lot of boots still on the ground but the President knows what he’s doing and probably needs to keep some there for a while longer. I’d like to see half that amount. At least the trillion dollars being spent on rebuilding Iraq will now be spent in the U.S.A.!
Mike, Warwick

He is doing what he said in his campaign, but he did not know what was left for him at that time. They only told him just what they told us! Not Much! I do believe that we will come out of this better and stronger as a country! President Obama is trying very hard to make sure that he keeps his promises but they (Republicans) all need to cut him some slack and just keep their mouth shut!! Republicans just need to let the man do the job we hired him to do!
Donna S

Anybody who looks at the history of failed states in the last forty years, and what it has cost us, and then complains about Obama’s withdrawal plan is an idiot. Pulling out too fast, without covering our backsides, is as moronic as going in in the first place. Obama inherited this mess, he’s far more intelligent than most of us and he has a lot of things on his plate. Let’s give him a chance and try to remember that half a loaf is better than none.
Bill G, Cranston

When Obama campaigned he led us to believe that troops would be withdrawn soon after his election. I never believed that it could be done as soon as he claimed it could, because like the president that sort of action would have been irresponsible. We helped wreck the country and now we have to help with some of rebuild.
Steve, Westerly

I don’t think he’s going back on his word. During the campaign he said he was going to get troops out in 2010 & that is what he just gave the order to do. Part of the plan was to have a small force in a neighboring country such as Kuwait anyway which is where the 50,000 contingency force will more than likely end up in 2011 when all troops must be out of Iraq. No matter what anyone does Iraq will always be the 800 lb gorilla in the room until we as a nation first admit then find out why the Bush/Cheney Regime intentionally used faulty intelligance to make their case to invade Iraq in the first place.
Hound Dog,  Bristol

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.“ J. Edgar Hoover

Those that took secret bloody oaths behind closed doors worshiping Jahbulon and Abaddon keeping the ruled in the dark and weaving a web of deceit; know that the false-flag party that continues The illegal Pakistan drone war and the escalation in Afghanistan mixed with the blood of Iraqi, Syrian, and Palestinian civilians, is provoking a backlash in which religion combines with nationalism to oppose foreign intervention. It is this that has been the real strength of movements like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Mehdi Army in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan which Americans want to eradicate but what Bush wants to be vindicated.The Obama Public Service Academy and civilian national security force are gearing up to turn the Public works recovery program to a war servicing industry. Much like President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the National Industrial Recovery Act. Repeating history - World depopulation and getting rid of the disgruntled unemployed by the Plutocracy.
The United States of America and its citizenry has been assessed, plotted against, and sold out by Policy makers, business, and the banking industry. Its workforce has been decimated its savings Weimar-ized. How Can the U.S. Economy Recover Without Manufacturing Capacity? None of the Traitors will be charged in, the biggest incident of financial fraud in American history.
The hypocrisy – of claiming that this plan “leaves Iraq to its people and responsibly ends this war,” is a farce with an escape clauses allowing the puppet Iraqi government to “request” a continued American military presence by being helplessly dependent on American guns and money to maintain its power in this this key oil nation.
A con man succeeds by gaining the confidence of the victim.The only change is that this President is capable of speech but talk is cheap.
Zuke

Well, gee…..how many Presidents in office who campaigned on promises fulfilled that promise in the first month of their presidency?  The expletive in your question is “campaign promises” – which is a dirty word with any politician these days; no politician should ever “promise” to do anything because it just doesn’t work!  So maybe those of you who were so caught up with the flowery rhetoric of Mr. Obama and were so elated of his election are just now finding out that he can’t fulfill his campaign promises?  How absurd and I don’t sympathize with you.  I only expected him to NOT fulfill any campaign promises as he spewed to his adorned followers, so it doesn’t come as any surprise to me what his agenda is all about.  In fact, he’s so full of (you know what) he’s not even telling his public what he is actually doing compared to what he “promised” – his agenda of closing of Guantanamo Bay’s military jail facility (where they housed those terrorists caught by our boys in uniform from Iraq and Afghanistan) is just one big disaster of a mistake and will threaten this United States and our men/women in uniform all over again!  How DARE he even think of letting those extreme terrorists go free after all the months it took for them to be captured and interrogated astounds me to the intelligence of this man you think is doing such a great job as President!  But you go ahead and praise him for whatever he’s doing and not be informed of what he’s really doing and what he made a mockery of our military, our United States (as he plunged us into socialism that he so dearly loves) and lied to the people of the United States of America!
C-Ann-C, Coventry

Yes, Obama is going back on his promise, but that isn’t unusual for a politician. At least it is a start in the right direction.
Bill, Portsmouth

  PLAIN AND SIMPLE, IT CANNOT BE DONE OVERNIGHT AND HE IS TRYING TO IMPROVE ON THE ALREADY CRUCIAL SITUATION THAT IS BEFORE HIM.  SO YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT HIM IN HIS EFFORTS UNTIL HE STARTS RENEGGING, ON PROMISES.IF ANYBODY THOGHT THAT HE COULD DO IT OVERNIGHT, THEY NEED THEIR HEAD EXAMINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS USUAL THANX FOR LISTENING
A LOYAL RAPPER
LARRY, SMITHFIELD