Where is the evidence that bin Laden is in the tribal areas? Excuse me, but after eight years of cherry-picking, massaging, and outright fabricating "intelligence," pardon my skepticism, but before we get involved in what promises to be an even bigger quagmire, I want to see the proof – the intelligence reports and the satellite photos. Surely, for all our vaunted hi-tech weaponry and gadgetry – which comes at a cost of trillions – the U.S. military has the capacity to zoom in on the tribal areas and mount a pretty detailed surveillance. Let’s see the photos.
wkmac, here's an article back in july 2008, on the campaign trail, stating exactly how an Obama Adm was planning to handle Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25676250/
Again, the articles are not about his position given during the campaign about Afghanistan as neither the articles nor I dispute that. He did campaign on change but he's being sucked into the dead end road of the Bush doctrine. Even worse that Obama is following the Bush doctrine is now it's being alleged that Cheney has moles planted in the midst of the new adminstration. As Hollywoodish as that might seem on the surface, history has proven over and over that fact is stranger than fiction.
It's pretty clearcut Obamaites knew his position when punching the Presidential ballets last Nov., withdrawing troops, setting a "timetable" in Iraq, concentrating more troops in Afghanistan and having a dialoge with the enemy. I'd say your right, there is no "change". There's no change from his campaign promises. Could it be thats why Obamaites are silent?
Could you cut the guy some slack and allow him 16 months (not 3 months) to fullfill his campaign promises ? Believe me, if there's no end in sight by then, you'll have more Ex-Obamaite supporters with mega-phones on top of your soapbox then you care to have.
If you see someone headed in an obvious bad direction, do you "cut him some slack" and allow him to go ahead and make a tragic mistake or do you speak out in the hopes that if he hears and realizes there are enough behind him, he just might ignore the beast of Washington and actually do the right thing?
As for you guys revolting against the democrat machine when the time is obvious? I'll expect to see about as much revolt as I saw from so-called conservative republicans when it became exceeedingly obvious what Bush and company were really all about along with the so-called conservative Congress. Hell, even Rush didn't "RUSH" back to true conservatism until his party was out of power and the the new owners were in town. That's why he and others like Hannity, etc. are such hypocrites. I even heard someone the other day call Neal Boortz a "fibberterian" which I got a real chuckle from.
Whats with this bombardment of LewRockwell, Salon, Counterpunch and Anti-War ? A campaign run for a third party 2012 "Messiah"...lol
Maybe your theme song can be "Af-Pak Fever" to the tune of Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever".
I know what your up to Conrad.....
Whats with this bombardment of LewRockwell, Salon, Counterpunch and Anti-War ?
You know it's funny how it takes an election to really show there is no real difference in politics. There's no doubt IMO that the Neo-libs and Neo-Cons are the same rotten fruit from the same posion tree.
You know its funny, in his latest interview, ex-VP Dick doesn't think the two administrations are the same rotten fruit. I think he believes we are much less safer. I wonder if his alleged moles are lying to him....
President Asif Ali Zardari Sunday said Pakistan is fighting militant insurgency for its survival but the world powers including the United States must back Islamabad’s anti-terror effort as they also bear a collective responsibility for the current turmoil in the region. “It’s a war of our existence. We have been fighting this war much before 9/11. They (militants) are a kind of a cancer created by both of us, Pakistan and America, and the world.”
“We got together, we created this cancer to fight the super power (Soviet Union that occupied Afghanistan in 1979) and then you went away without finding a cure for it. And now we have come together to find a cure for it,” he told NBC channels Meet the Press Program.
We are now in the midst of a full-blown campaign to "roll out the product" for a new war: this time, in Pakistan. Anyone who lived through the run-up to the invasion of Iraq should be able to read the signs -- anyone, that is, who is not blinded by partisan labels, or by the laid-back cool of a media-savvy leader far more presentable than his predecessor.
This week brings yet another bumper crop of panic buttons and alarm bells from the powers-that-be, with ever-increasing emphasis on the "Taliban kooks with Muslim nukes" theme: one more variation on the old "mushroom clouds rising in American cities" ploy that has worked like a charm for our militarists lo these 60 years or more.
Some of the war-pushing powers-that-be are public figures in the Obama Administration (including Obama himself, who has dutifully taken on the Bushian mantle of Fearmonger-in-Chief), and some of them are shadowy, unnamed eminences in the military-security apparat, clearly aiming to act for Obama as those daggers of the mind did for Macbeth: "Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going."
AP News
May 10, 2009 07:37 EST
The chief of the U.S. Central Command says al-Qaida no longer is operating in Afghanistan. But Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs) says affiliated organizations still have "enclaves and sanctuaries" in the country.
Petraeus says al-Qaida, which carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, has suffered "very significant losses" in recent months in its hide-outs across the rugged, mountainous border in Pakistan.
He's praising Pakistan for its offensive to root out Taliban militants sheltering al-Qaida.
Petraeus spoke Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."