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Didn't Obama the candidate give the impression that Iraq was a completely unjustifiable diversion from the real war, in Afghanistan? Now we're looking at the end of 2011 till the troops are out of Iraq?
Did you notice that none of Obama's "three points" re Afghanistan mention a timetable or deadline to achieve "success" there? Now they're hinting that the "Mission" will creep into Pakistan!
Presidents--Republican or Democrat--are nothing but mouthpieces hired to justify the tranfer of tax revenues (and huge debt obligations, via Chinese and Arab despots) into the pockets of preferred defense contractors and oil companies.
But keep telling yourself that the new mouthpiece is different than the old mouthpieces. Meanwhile, the money is still ending up in the same pockets as before.
