Some Democrats Want Out Of Afghanistan

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm going to get pretty riled up over this, so you've all been warned.

A few Democrats, including Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich are talking about us getting out of Afghanistan. MOTHERFUCKING AFGHANISTAN?!?!!? We're not going anywhere until Bin Laden and al-Zahrawi's heads come home in a box full of ice. We're there to capture or kill Taliban and Al-Qaeda members, and until they are both wiped out, we're staying.

Even Nancy Pelosi agrees with me on this:

“The Taliban played a role in the 9/11 attacks by providing a safe haven for bin Laden,” said Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesman. “Preventing a successful resurgence by the Taliban is a national security objective of the United States, and our troops will remain in Afghanistan until the objective is achieved.”


Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), a senior defense authorizer, wants the U.S. out of Afghanistan immediately, calling operations there “futile” in trying to effect political change in a country with a tangled history.

“We are finished there, militarily speaking,” said Abercrombie, the chairman of the Air and Land Armed Services subcommittee.

“There is no useful purpose for our troops there,” Abercrombie stated in a recent interview. “The military should withdraw now,” he said, though he stressed that the U.S. could keep “isolated pockets” of special operators.

Like hell we are finished there. We're there until the threat has been destroyed. Leaving now would embolden Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and allow them to rebuild for additional attacks on the US.

Murtha stressed that NATO forces should take a bigger role in Afghanistan. So far, the U.S. military has been the leading presence.
“I have not made the recommendation yet on withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan,” said Murtha. “Every commander I talk to still thinks that we have a chance.”

Even Murtha is showing that he is weak on terrorism. A statement like that says that he can be persuaded if the wind blows one way or another. This is a dangerous position to have. He's showing that he's willing to change his mind after a known threat has not been captured or killed.

But Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a staunch opponent of the war in Iraq, said that it is time for the U.S. military to start leaving Afghanistan and the Middle East altogether.

“We are not securing America by being there,” she pressed. “The longer we are there, the more plots start growing in our country.”

Watson, who supported the war in Afghanistan, said that the military ought “to start leaving Afghanistan” and that the U.S. should allow Afghan officials to “formulate and run their own government.”

We didn't have a guy in the entire country when we were attacked, so how is it that we're creating more problems for ourselves when we're putting pressure on them and killing or capturing them in spades?

MoveOn.org did not respond to repeated attempts for comment on the issue.

Of course they didn't, they're cowards who just like to blow hot air and not take the security of the nation seriously.

Meanwhile, several anti-war members, including Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), stress that any troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is inextricably linked to the military’s first leaving Iraq.

Umm...no they aren't. Afghanistan and Iraq are two separate things, but working towards the same common goal: defeating terrorists.

“I’d like to get out of Iraq first and look at Afghanistan and if it does not work … we should be impatient,” Woolsey said, adding that she is not prepared to give a timeline for withdrawal. “There was a reason [for being] there, but now we really need to reassess what we are accomplishing. It depends on what our mission is in Afghanistan; if our mission is to find Osama bin Laden, that is one thing.”

That's the ONLY thing you fucking moron. Finding and killing/capturing Al-Qaeda's main leadership is job #1. What the fuck do you think we're doing there?

A decision to leave Afghanistan before bid Laden is caught or killed would be seen by some as abandoning the U.S. effort to combat terrorism.

Well no shit. Of course it'll be seen as the US abandoning the terrorism effort because it IS abandoning the effort.

Yet Kucinich, a 2008 presidential candidate, said that withdrawal from Iraq would open a new policy direction in Afghanistan.

“Once we show that we can handle a successful resolution of withdrawing troops from Iraq, it will be easier to shift direction in Afghanistan,” said Kucinich. “There is a sequence of events … get out of Iraq and then we must focus on getting out of Afghanistan.”

This is the exact reason why Kucinich has ZERO chance of being President. He doesn't want to find Osama, he doesn't want to stick it out to do what's right. He wants things to be quick and painless and that's not how the real world works.

I can't have a President who won't take terrorism seriously because when they don't, terrorism flourishes and we get a glimpse of their impotency first hand as we saw with Bill Clinton and September 11th.

Every time I say that Democrats have a well earned reputation for being spineless and weak against terrorism, I get a lot of hate mail from liberals telling me to take a look at this guy or that one who's for the war on terrorism who happens to be a Democrat. Then one of their own pulls some cowardly bullshit like this.

These particular Democrats are undermining the safety and security of America and they need to be called out on it. Especially when one's running for President.

You want to run like a coward, be my guest. But you're certainly not going to do it in a position of power and get away with it. Regardless of what you think, most of America is willing to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to capture or kill everyone involved in al-Qaeda.

Fucking morons.

Travis
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