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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (326242)9/26/2009 7:50:45 PM
From: KLP1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793864
 
Our Military can not just quit. To have Obama and his WH stonewall is beyond contempt! Our guys are dying because of Obama's willfullness....Needed help is refused by Obama and his Defense Department....The entire thing should be hammered on EVERY SINGLE day by ANYONE in Congress who sees this as murder. And not even accidental murder...IMO anyway.

"Right now the focus is on the strategic assessment itself. [The troop request] will be shelved until such time that the White House is ready," a defense official told Reuters.

"It is not going to be addressed, or reviewed, or analyzed until the White House is ready to begin discussing it,"
the official added.

Allied forces in the war-torn country have experienced heavy losses in the last couple of months. But President Barack Obama described himself last week as a "skeptical audience" of the troop request.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (326242)9/26/2009 10:47:09 PM
From: LindyBill1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793864
 
Defense Department will hold it until the Obama administration reconfigures its Afghan strategy.

Obama won't send more troops. The only way out is to change the mission. So that is what he will do. In the meantime, our troops over there are serving as pop-up targets for the Taliban.