Do you support continuing & escalating the Afghanistan War?

[yurbud]

Someone posted in another thread that they have seen many comments here by people supporting the Afghan surge, but I suspect it's the usual astroturfing by a handful who know how to make their numbers seem larger.


So do you support it or not?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Fence n/t

[NightWatcher]

2. wind down, my ass. Get Out Now. We dont need to spill our blood to guard oil pipelines for BP...

[yurbud]

5. I hope you voted for wind down then.

I agree with you, I was just trying to make the poll not seem tilted.

[bigwillq]

3. No

Get out ASAP.

[IndianaGreen]

4. This war cannot be won! Bring all the troops now!

Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam, and it will end the same way.

[yurbud]

6. yep

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I do NOT support the war.

As others have said, and many wiser than I am, this is Obama's Viet Nam, and he needs to stop it ASAP.

[Hippo_Tron]

8. No, but I recognize that the President is in a tough spot

Afghanistan, like Vietnam, is a rat hole that has little strategic importance. Unfortunately American politics doesn't reward sound policy it rewards perception and people don't like the perception of losing a war.

I think he's looking for a Nixon-esque way to declare victory while simultaneously getting out. I just hope that unlike Nixon the actual policy isn't being set by somebody like Kissinger.

[MissDeeds]

14. The troops are in a tough spot too n/t

[LittleBlue]

9. No. It's a disaster, and anyone who wants the Democratic Party to own this war is a fool

Obama included.

Bush got us into this quagmire, it's his war. It's his mistake. Now, Obama is working 24/7 to own this POS failure. WHY??? Why do we want to own something doomed to fail?

The 24%, you people are doing the Republicans' dirty work for them. Do you realize that when Cheney accuses Obama of dithering, it's an attempt to exert pressure on him to escalate the thing? Because they know it's unwinnable, fools!

[polichick]

11. If the prez wants another term, it's insane to own this war. nt

[barbtries]

10. never did

i was all for bringing the 911 terrorists to justice, but war? no.

[Vidar]

12. Hell, no!

[trof]

13. Another fence-sitter here.

I know (I think?) 'we' originally went into Afghanistan to get bin Laden.
Fair enough, I guess.
We muffed that.
Evidently he headed for parts unknown.
Or maybe Pakistan.
Or he's dead.
Or not.

Now, I don't understand what we're still doing in Afghanistan.
The perp has flown the coop.
:shrug:
I am eagerly awaiting President Obama's explanation later this week.
Seriously.

[harun]

16. The only people who win what we now define as "war" are defense contractors

and banks (financiers).

So when the repukes put out a memo saying one of the cardinal principles their party members can't defy is "winning in Afghanistan", that means keeping the flow of tax payer cash going to the defense contractors and the financiers.

So why can't Obama cross this red line? We all need to ask ourselves this question.

[DailyGrind51]

15. Look, we failed to get Bin Laden, the initial mission was never accomplished.

[LWolf]

17. NO. nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a legitimate threat to the United States from Afghanistan

End this bullshit occupation NOW.