Obama's Big Decision on Troops in Afghanistan

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1.) During the 2008 election cycle, Obama said that he had a plan for Afghanistan, yet failed to make public what the exact points of that plan actually were.
2.) Recently, though, Obama said that he did not have a plan for Afghanistan but was steadily working on one and would soon make this plan public.
3.) General McChrystal recently said that the situation was rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan and that additional troops were needed soon before the situation there deteriorated even further.
4.) McChrystal appearing before a select U.S. Senate panel to discuss options to deal with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan was criticized heavily by Democrats and the media who said that it was Obama who should be the one to work out a plan for Afghanistan and that we should give him time to do this.
But when Obama was running for president he said that he had a plan for Afghanistan!
Yet he never made that plan public even after he was elected president!!!!
He has had from January 2009 until now to make that plan for Afghanistan (that he said he had developed before becoming president) known to all.
But we are expected to believe that he is working on a plan right now? Puhleeze.
Enough with Obama's smoke screens. "Duh One" is clueless on this.

Ray of AR 1:11PM October 11, 2009

As a retired Army officer with more than 34 years of service I believe that the president is doing exactly what he should be doing here. Expanding the war earlier and sending McChrystal were the right things to do. The problems are with the leak of information to Bob Woodward. This information was not meant for public consumption and public speculation. Those who are in the inner circle know and understand what is going on here. Notice that General Petraeus is smart enough to not get publically involved, he saves his comments for those who need to hear them and not the lunatic fringe and the press.
President Obama, in my professional opinion is probably the best "thinker" and "doer" president that this country has had in decades.
What is bothersome is that right wing nuts are continually trying to make him out to be a bad president just to see him fail, while their (right wing nuts)followers are like sheep ignorantly being led to a slaughter.
Obama and his entire team will reach consensus and he will decide. The news media will second guess and "what if" on whatever decision he makes. Rest assured though that he has only our country's interest at heart.

Bill of VA 11:29AM October 10, 2009