DISQUS

An_American_Karol · 2 months ago

I'm waiting for a Democrat to stand up and tell the Republicans to STFU about the war in Afghanistan since this mess was created by them. However, that's not going to happen unless it comes from someone who did not vote to give Bush complete authority to go into Iraq.
It would need to come from Obama, and he is trying to be bipartisan. Shame that..

HtW · 2 months ago

They should let them have their hearing and just schedule it in that same broom closet the GOP would throw the Dems.

Wow, I wonder where the GOP got the idea that the louder they screamed about something the quicker the Dems would scramble to give them anything they wanted. The GOP has officially become the loud obnoxious kid in Walmart that screams and smacks his parent until he gets his way.

kevinbgoode · 2 months ago

The GOP seems to just be increasingly irrelevant to the nation. They represent a small minority in every region of the country except the South, and even there they are in trouble. It seems like the only people who don't understand this reality are the Democrats in Congress, the President, and the media.

mparker · 2 months ago

Whatever action President Obama decides to take in Afghanistan will be derided as a failure by the Republicans even before it begins. Their voices should have no impact on his decisions whatsoever. It's the same with health care. They want him to fail and they will work towards that end even as Americans go bankrupt, suffer and die needlessly. The Republicans greatest fear is that he will succeed at anything. Imagine that, an American success and a Democratic success as well. In that case they would manage to call even a good result a failure. In their Philosophy, Government is not supposed to work for us even when a Republican is in power. They are the Party of unending American failure and incompetence and they are determined to prove it every time.

Butch1 · 2 months ago

They have short-term-memory-loss and no shame.

Indigo · 2 months ago

Oh, they remember perfectly well. With no shame comes a remarkable skill at lying. They do that!

vkobaya · 2 months ago

Since the war in Afghanistan is senseless, needless, brutal and evil as the war in Iraq, the reality is that the cause is not important. All they care about is war, any war, doesn't matter against who or for what cause, as they will vilify the opposition with lies, mud slinging and calls to American patriotism and love of the flag. The reality is that neo-conservatism is founded on hatred and hatred of a foreign nation strengthens them politically as well as creates the reason for their existence, though they also use bigotry and racism, religious superiority against various groups domestically also. And, of course, it produces enormous profits for the military industrial complex as well as enriching the politicians as the rotate between office and lobbying or other payoffs by the corporations.

In fact, there are real threats to our national security, but Afghanistan is no more than a flyspeck compared to North Korea or Pakistan, but both are untouchable as they possess nuclear weapons. Afghanistan also makes a convenient sledgehammer to use against Obama should he choose the ethical choice, the high road and try to take us out of that war (Obama’s saving “grace” may be that he is just as unethical). Early in the Bush administration, we called it wrapping themselves in the flag and pretending anyone else was an enemy of the nation and hated our nation. Truth is, they don’t give a damn about the nation except as it is useful to use for their own purposes, wealth, power and hatred.

Indigo · 2 months ago

It isn't really about politics. It's just an opportunity to obstruct anything coming out of the White House.

sonofloud · 2 months ago

well to be fair the democrats ignored it too

bacalove · 2 months ago

It is a sad stain on our society that Republicans and some Pundits spend more time in critiscising the President and Democrats than offering solution which help all of us. Most of this critiscism is petty jealousy and does not add to any positive agendas or upliftment. Many pundits spend the time they have nitpicking, picking apart, tearing apart and it is more ugly than contstructive. No wonder we have lost civility in this country. And, then there are those who want him to fear Doing Anything because he might Lose! We would never get anything done, any of us, if we lived by that premise. There will always be times when we do not get what we want, but that does not mean we have to stop trying.

President Obama has to stay in the public domain to continually answer and address the lies pomulgated against him daily. Thank God he is a Symbol of what a 21st President should act like -- able to do more than one thing at a time (multi-tasker) cooperative, inclusive, forward thinking and thoughtful.

rayso · 2 months ago

Rethugs support McChrystal's counter insurgency strategy and request for 30,000 to 40,000 more troops to carry this out. They claim that as Obama takes time to make a decision on this, troops are unnecessarily placed in greater danger. A wavering commander in chief is bad for troop morale. Obama needs to decide what he is going to do and whether he still believes this is the "good" war and a the war of "necessity" as he said in August.

yaridanjo · 2 months ago

The Afgan war is for heroine trafficking. Bil Laden may not even have been involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
Heroin Trafficking
"The cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reached its peak in 1999 —350 square miles—of poppies were sown. The following year the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, a move which cut production by 94 percent. By 2001 only 30 square miles of land were in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles, Opium production in that country has increased rapidly since, reaching an all-time high in 2006.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/world/europe/...
Russia, Plagued by Heroin Use, to Press U.S. on Destroying Afghan Poppy Crops

http://www.rense.com/general87/d3.htm
Italy Ex-President - CIA And Mossad Ran 9-11

emjayay · 2 months ago

What? They were dealing in women noted for courage and daring action like the principal female character in a novel?
By the way, moderator: please fix the spelling in the headline. What is this, a teabagger rally?

threadmonitor · 2 months ago

I'll notify the post author.

therepguy · 2 months ago

Please remember that the republican party is to blame for the mess in the Middle-East!

I wonder if G. W. Bush had any idea of just how badly he and his buddies were fucking up the Middle-East?

Well, at least we got a black man in the office to clean up the white man mess!

Boy... that fact has got to be pissing off more than a few while republicans... and that through makes me smile all the more!

cowboyneok · 2 months ago

I'm for having hearings as long as the Democrats, who control the damned hearings, walk us STEP BY STEP through the mess that was created because George W. Bush and the Republican Congress invaded the wrong country! We need to go back over why Osama bin Laden is still free. The man who killed thousands on 9/11 never paid a price for his crimes because Republicans wanted desperately to go to war in Iraq. They got their war and destroyed our country. Most of the messes we are in should be tied back to that decision. Not ALL of us were fooled. Many progressives marched with me in Washington, DC in support of the war in Afghanistan and marched AGAINST the war in Iraq back in 2003.