62% of Americans Want Immediate Troop Cuts in Afghanistan

[2pac Shakur]

The poll showed 62 percent of Americans want immediate troop cuts, with only 24 percent content to keep levels where they are and 7 percent open to an increase.

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/03/62-of-americans-want-immediate-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan/

Problem is, the parties won't let an antiwar candidate win.
The 2 parties tell you who will be Prez. Not vice versa.

[Andy The Clown]

My guess is that 62% of Americans do not even know that there are troops in Afghan. BS poll.

[MathinTucson]

BS poll.

BS war.

[Rickson]

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/03/62-of-americans-want-immediate-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan/

Problem is, the parties won't let an antiwar candidate win.
The bilderburg/council of 13 tell you who will be Prez. Not vice versa.

IFYP

[asdfasdf]

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/03/62-of-americans-want-immediate-troop-cuts-in-afghanistan/

Problem is, the parties won't let an antiwar candidate win.
The 2 parties tell you who will be Prez. Not vice versa.

Isn't the plan at this point to be substantively out by the next federal election anyway?

[win diesel]

Even I want them out immediately

That shows you how much this war has really jumped the shark

[FormLetter]

This war has really nuked the fridge.

[Standtall]

This war has really boiled the iguana.

[FormLetter]

This war has really defaced the envelope.

[The Right]

This war really grinds my gears.

[2pac Shakur]

Isn't the plan at this point to be substantively out by the next federal election anyway?

Guantanamo will also be closed.

[QMO]

IFYPYes. For example, President H. Clinton's election in 2008.

[win diesel]

This war..is making me thirsty

[Fish Actuary]

Weren't GOP voters against pulling troops out of Afghanistan during the last presidential election and wanting McCain as president so that the U.S. wouldn't pull out of Afghanistan?

[Descalzo]

Once a timeline has been established for pullout, that changes the game. If we aren't in it for the long haul, we should get out immediately.

[Aaron Brachowitz]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383333n&tag=mncol;lst;2

Short, disturbing video from an interview with the new commanding general in Afghanistan. Some quotes:

The plan is to win. The plan is to be successful. So, while some folks might hear that we're departing in 2014...we're actually going to be here for a long time...Afghanistan is not going to be abandoned.

[FormLetter]

He probably wasn't quite supposed to say that, eh?

[Aaron Brachowitz]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383339n&tag=mncol;lst;10

Another one, this time from an infantry captain (toward the end):
The message to the Afghan people is we're staying, we're not leaving, we're not going away, we're going to be here, we're going to push the Taliban out. We are the stronger tribe.

This captain was probably in high school when the war started, yet he is completely confident of his army's eventual success, as if it was just a matter of spending ten years doing the wrong things before we figured out the right things. He certainly knows the "success script" and even appears to believe in it. Five years from now, I suspect there will be another captain saying the same things with the same confidence.

[Aaron Brachowitz]

He probably wasn't quite supposed to say that, eh?
I disagree. It's a formal interview, and he appears to be speaking completely in his official capacity.

[Descalzo]

If we are going to stay, the general and captain have exactly the correct attitude.

[Aaron Brachowitz]

If we are going to stay, the general and captain have exactly the correct attitude.
Right, I just wonder how many more years it takes before their statements become obviously ridiculous. To me, they already are.