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Ozymanithrax

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Tue Nov-24-09 02:48 AM
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11. Obama ran on getting us out of Iraq and moving into Afghanistan...

He is not a pacifist and certainly not antiwar.

To his credit, I think he believes our involvement in Afghanistan is necessary for the long term stability of the region, which is a primary national security issue.

He used his own mind and heart to escalate the war in Afghanistan once, and appears to be about to do it again. He is the President. The decisions are his, not some cabal of hawkish Democrats and Bush holdovers.

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