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Deja Vue - I am decrying Afghanistan Surge - new President same Surge

By Lietta Ruger
Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 11:46:02 AM PST
Section: United States Topic: Military

Sometime today I, along with the rest of the nation, will hear what President Obama will be telling us about his plans to escalate U.S. military troop deployments in Afghanistan. And in so doing, he will dash against the rocks any hope I had that he could be a person, a President, with the kind of integrity I need him to have to do the right thing on behalf of our troops. The right thing for this generation of exhausted, over-used troops is to find an honorable way to end this madness of war.

Quoting from article at VetVoice;

' Do you really want to make a dent in the divorce trend, the suicide trend, the PTSD trend?
Then create an end state so that Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Marines can come home, with honor'

This statement gets to me and the tears begin to flow. They do want to come home with honor, so damn it, let's bring them home now...with honor. military family with two time deployed Iraq veteran - more detail, see my previous stories here at Washblog and my blog Dying to Preserve the Lies .

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Thoughtful analysis of President O's speech here

link to blog MORIALEKAFA

'Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln

by Lietta Ruger on Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 07:26:43 AM PST

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At Least W/ Saint Sarah The Coo-Coo & McSlime

the lies, fantasies and nonsense would have been good old fashioned, honest, straight up, raygun-bush lies, fantasies and nonsense.

My wife has 4 yrs of experience in Cambridge MA., 1982 - her take on it is quite simple -

Barack is a harvard law grad,
the system works for him.

(huh... I had to ask ... wtf does that mean?...

well, she says -

IF the system works for you,
WHY would you change it!!)

At least there was logic during the RayGun-Bush days - lies, lies, lies, rip offs, theivery, lies, stealing, lies ...

remember when Exxon's gazillion dollar profits in any of the first 6 months of 2008 were an outrage!!!

WHAT is the logic now?

Elect Dems cuz ... it is BETTER to be betrayed by those you trust, than it is to be LIED to by fascists!

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Sat Dec 05, 2009 at 07:51:04 PM PST

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Baird against Afghan surge

Brian Baird is against the Afghan surge. I'm so glad we have a good congressman like Brian Baird. Most of the other Dem congressmen are just not as thoughtful.

More and Better New Democrats!

Baird Fan Store for all your Brian Baird gift needs.

by bairdFanStore on Sun Dec 06, 2009 at 08:44:57 PM PST

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