OT: “Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties”

[partypup]

I actually posted this as a comment to another thread, but I believe that this development is so significant that it deserves its own thread.

Obama is clearly NOT changing course from Bush’s disastrous military policies. The fact that he chose to keep Gen. Petraeus in charge of Central Command was the first clue and red flag that should have been noted by the Obama Faithful.

The fact that drone attacks killing Pakistani civilians were started by Bush and are now being carried out under Obama was the second red flag.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5575883.ece

And now, this from Biden:

“The Obama administration warned the US public yesterday to brace itself for an increase in American casualties as it prepares to step up the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan.

Against a background of widespread protests in Pakistan and Afghanistan over US operations since Obama became president, the vice-president, Joe Biden, said yesterday that US forces would be engaged in MANY MORE operations as the US takes the fight to its enemies in the region.

The Obama administration is to DOUBLE the number of US troops in Afghanistan to 60,000 and when asked in a television interview if the US public should expect more American casualties, Biden said: “I hate to say it, but yes, I think there will be. There will be an uptick.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/25/obama-airstrikes-pakistan

And yet, when I mention these factoids to my *liberal* friends and colleagues, they shrug and say, “Well, we’ve got a war on terror going on, you know?”

Well gee whiz, that’s the same thing Bush told us when we complained about a bottomless-pit-of-a-war in Iraq, and everyone got up in arms. But somehow, when Obama adopts imperialist policies or pursues a bogus war on terror, it feels and sounds different. Somehow, when Obama orders attacks that kill innocent civilians, this gives people *hope*. Somehow, when Obama widens a front in the war on terror and pours more bodies and money into a country that swallowed the Russian army WHOLE, it makes people feel all warm and fuzzy.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Obama is an attempt by the Powers That Be to co-opt the Left into remaining silent while he finishes the job that Bush couldn’t complete in 8 years.

[jficquette]

Its ok if Obama gets our guys killed.

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Its ok if Obama gets our guys killed.

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Its ok if Obama gets our guys killed.

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Its ok if Obama gets our guys killed.

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Its ok if Obama gets our guys killed.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Partypup: It’s probably akin to mentioning to your liberal friends that Clinton was more interventionist than Bush, spent the last two and a half years of his Presidency bombing the living crap out of Iraq (in the largest sustained bombing campaign since Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam) and employed a sanctions program (under UN auspices) that killed in excess of 200,000 Iraqis and potentially as many as half a million.

It galls leftists to no end when you point out certain “inconvenient truths” like these.

I wonder what Michael Moore, my favorite propagandist after Leni Riefenstahl, is going to say now. Or Bill Maher? Or Jon Stewart? I’d say Al Franken, but he’s gone legit now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Partypup: It’s probably akin to mentioning to your liberal friends that Clinton was more interventionist than Bush, spent the last two and a half years of his Presidency bombing the living crap out of Iraq (in the largest sustained bombing campaign since Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam) and employed a sanctions program (under UN auspices) that killed in excess of 200,000 Iraqis and potentially as many as half a million.

It galls leftists to no end when you point out certain “inconvenient truths” like these.

I wonder what Michael Moore, my favorite propagandist after Leni Riefenstahl, is going to say now. Or Bill Maher? Or Jon Stewart? I’d say Al Franken, but he’s gone legit now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Partypup: It’s probably akin to mentioning to your liberal friends that Clinton was more interventionist than Bush, spent the last two and a half years of his Presidency bombing the living crap out of Iraq (in the largest sustained bombing campaign since Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam) and employed a sanctions program (under UN auspices) that killed in excess of 200,000 Iraqis and potentially as many as half a million.

It galls leftists to no end when you point out certain “inconvenient truths” like these.

I wonder what Michael Moore, my favorite propagandist after Leni Riefenstahl, is going to say now. Or Bill Maher? Or Jon Stewart? I’d say Al Franken, but he’s gone legit now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Partypup: It’s probably akin to mentioning to your liberal friends that Clinton was more interventionist than Bush, spent the last two and a half years of his Presidency bombing the living crap out of Iraq (in the largest sustained bombing campaign since Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam) and employed a sanctions program (under UN auspices) that killed in excess of 200,000 Iraqis and potentially as many as half a million.

It galls leftists to no end when you point out certain “inconvenient truths” like these.

I wonder what Michael Moore, my favorite propagandist after Leni Riefenstahl, is going to say now. Or Bill Maher? Or Jon Stewart? I’d say Al Franken, but he’s gone legit now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Partypup: It’s probably akin to mentioning to your liberal friends that Clinton was more interventionist than Bush, spent the last two and a half years of his Presidency bombing the living crap out of Iraq (in the largest sustained bombing campaign since Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam) and employed a sanctions program (under UN auspices) that killed in excess of 200,000 Iraqis and potentially as many as half a million.

It galls leftists to no end when you point out certain “inconvenient truths” like these.

I wonder what Michael Moore, my favorite propagandist after Leni Riefenstahl, is going to say now. Or Bill Maher? Or Jon Stewart? I’d say Al Franken, but he’s gone legit now.

[Arraya]

And yet, when I mention these factoids to my *liberal* friends and colleagues, they shrug and say, “Well, we’ve got a war on terror going on, you know?

This is funny in sad way. I’ve been going thru the same things with my supposed anti-war liberal friends about the escalation in pipe-line-istan or is it poppy-lanistan.

I predicted about 6 months ago that suddenly liberals would become pro-war and the main stream conservatives would suddenly start complaining about lack of coherent plan or no exit strategy or something that they would have deemed as anti-troops 2 years ago.

It is possible they could completely loose control of they money situation and the troops may have to hitch a ride home. Surely they will raid every pension and social security before the let that happens though. Hey, world domination is expensive.

[Arraya]

And yet, when I mention these factoids to my *liberal* friends and colleagues, they shrug and say, “Well, we’ve got a war on terror going on, you know?

This is funny in sad way. I’ve been going thru the same things with my supposed anti-war liberal friends about the escalation in pipe-line-istan or is it poppy-lanistan.

I predicted about 6 months ago that suddenly liberals would become pro-war and the main stream conservatives would suddenly start complaining about lack of coherent plan or no exit strategy or something that they would have deemed as anti-troops 2 years ago.

It is possible they could completely loose control of they money situation and the troops may have to hitch a ride home. Surely they will raid every pension and social security before the let that happens though. Hey, world domination is expensive.

[Arraya]

And yet, when I mention these factoids to my *liberal* friends and colleagues, they shrug and say, “Well, we’ve got a war on terror going on, you know?

This is funny in sad way. I’ve been going thru the same things with my supposed anti-war liberal friends about the escalation in pipe-line-istan or is it poppy-lanistan.

I predicted about 6 months ago that suddenly liberals would become pro-war and the main stream conservatives would suddenly start complaining about lack of coherent plan or no exit strategy or something that they would have deemed as anti-troops 2 years ago.

It is possible they could completely loose control of they money situation and the troops may have to hitch a ride home. Surely they will raid every pension and social security before the let that happens though. Hey, world domination is expensive.

[Arraya]

And yet, when I mention these factoids to my *liberal* friends and colleagues, they shrug and say, “Well, we’ve got a war on terror going on, you know?

This is funny in sad way. I’ve been going thru the same things with my supposed anti-war liberal friends about the escalation in pipe-line-istan or is it poppy-lanistan.

I predicted about 6 months ago that suddenly liberals would become pro-war and the main stream conservatives would suddenly start complaining about lack of coherent plan or no exit strategy or something that they would have deemed as anti-troops 2 years ago.

It is possible they could completely loose control of they money situation and the troops may have to hitch a ride home. Surely they will raid every pension and social security before the let that happens though. Hey, world domination is expensive.

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