Friday, October 16, 2009

I’m Beginning to Feel a “Draft”

David Kramer
LRC Blog


OFFICIALS: GEN. MCCHRYSTAL NOW SEEKING 80,000 ADDITIONAL TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN

When General McChrystal was first reported as requesting 40,000 additional troops for Afghanistan, many people balked at the massive number. Not long after, the number was quietly revised to 45,000. Last Friday it became clear that the general had actually requested over 60,000. Now McClatchy Newspapers is citing officials in the Obama Administration and military as saying that the General’s “low-risk” option was actually even higher, asking for 80,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan.

The rub, however, is that with 68,000 US troops already in Afghanistan and 120,000+ still in Iraq, in addition to all of America’s assorted other imperial requirements around the world, the US military simply doesn’t have anywhere near the number of additional troops just lying around that the general wants to throw at the eight year long conflict. Officials are now saying that, even with the disastrous economy making wartime recruiting remarkably easy, they can only send about 30,000 more troops without putting undue strain on the Army and Marine Corps.

I’ve dreamed of this moment ever since Obama said he would escalate our criminal presence in Afghanistan. Now let’s see how long it takes for Maddow, Olbermann, and the rest of the left-wing sheeple to throw in the towel on this current Bankster Puppet-in-Chief. (Or perhaps they’ll still fawn over him. That wouldn’t surprise me in the least. After all, Obama has charisma—something that Johnson, Nixon, nor Baby Bush ever had to protect them from anti-war demonstrations.)

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