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where were all this guy when we were fighting in Iraq for no reason.

Laughable. Liberals are absolutely laughable.

This is not Bush's War. This became Obama's War in 2009, especially considering all of the anti-war speeches he delivered on the campaign trail, promising to get the job done and bring our sons and daughters home.

Now that he's in the office, he sees what real presidential decision-making is all about. He must feel foolish for all the lies he spewed forth. Foolish or arrogant.

Maybe the Independents who voted for him are the ones feeling foolish?

Obama is the POTUS. He can end this war at any time of his choosing. He simply chooses not to at this time. This isn't "Bush's war" anymore folks, it is Obama's.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Americans sure want something badly there, you don't spend hundreds of billions of dollars so a backwards country can have a democracy. And you've only antagonized terrorists and exponentially increased their numbers by being there. Why is only 4% of the money you spend there go towards building hosptals, schools, food, medicine?

Did you people forget 911? They were the terrorists. Did you forget they are advancing and in pakistan to get the nuclear weapons? Must have short term memories, we need to win.

I am independent but not opposing the war against the terrorists. I am opposing any illegal war and I didn’t think the Afghanistan war was legal. Invading , occupying, or interfering the sovereignty of any country is illegal. Taliban provided the safe haven for the extremists/terrorists but the people of Afghanistan didn’t. After ousting the Taliban, the US should have left the country and let the Afghanistan people take care of their own business. If they can’t take care of themselves then who can? There will be no winner in this war, unless … if and only if the people of Afghanistan want to win the war.

shouldn't there be daily reports on deaths on the front page (not buried in a ticker) like we did for IRAQ?

We got Saddam, we liberated Iraq, bring our troops home. This war is not something we can afford. Let's bring the troops home and try to get our National debt under control.

If we can't get this debt under control, we will crumble from within vs having a terrorist doing it from without. The debt is much more serious than killing every terrorist in Afghanistan. Besides, we won't ever achieve this and this war isn't a winnable situation.

I TOTALLY AGREE-BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!!!!

Just another NO EXIT STRATEGY WAR by the BUSH ADMINISTRATION !!!

Personally..., I could never tire from freeing the oppressed.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say they oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, with 42 percent supporting the military mission. The percentage of those in opposition to the war is up 11 points since April, and is the highest ever in CNN polling since the launch of the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan soon after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

Don't forget it is OB's war since January 2009.

CNN needs to look for torture cases at Baghram Military prison. There is a lady who has been tortured to the point of insanity by our troops. Her name is Dr. Aafia Siddiqi. She has been held for at least 6 years. She was educated in the US. She has lost two of her three children. Even the Pakistani government has assigned lawyers to free her. But our government has ignored her plea. She is currently held in one of New York city's maximum security prison and held under isolation and awaiting trial in New York City. There has demonstrations asking for her freedom by American Citizens but no coverage in the media. This story needs to be reported in order to inform the public of the horrific tortures that have been committed under the name of the American People names and for their security. I think once her story is told people will get to decide for themselves why torture is a crime against humanity and that those responsible for this policy should be tried. Her story needs to be told in order to show that an impartial press still exists on this planet..

WHY, WHY, WHY do we have to be fighting every war that there is. Afghans have been fighting for two thousand years, and they will continue fighting for two more thousand years- regardless if we are there or not.

Again, WHY, WHY, WHY do we need to be in the middle of everyone's business.

Obama, please make this war over with. Just bring our troops home!!!

Time for a SCORCHED EARTH policy......Pull all troops out and napalm ALL poppy fields (with 48hr notice so civilians can get out of harm's way). Take away the Taliban's financing w/ ZERO U.S. Military casualties.........

Hey folks, we went into this country to fix it. Right, wrong, or indifferent, we're there now, and we better complete the job, or, given time, Afghanistan will, once again, become a breeding ground for terrorism and Muslim extremism, both internally and externally.

We better develope a reasonable plan of action, quickly, and put it into practice.

While we were on our misguided action in IRAQ, we lost sight of the incresasing problems in Afghanistan. Now we have to pary the added costs, in material, money, and people, to bring this mess under control.

So much for not being interested in "Nation Building". We're stuck now, and we better get this one right, or we'll be doing it again, down the road.

What exactly were the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey questions? And just how many focus groups did your progressively liberal director have to do before getting the answers he wanted??

Obama tried to dodge the unpopularity of the Iraq war by focusing on Afghanistan for some reason. If he had actually done his job as a senator and learned about the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan he would have gotten behind finishing the job in Iraq and pulling out of Afghanistan. We'd all but won in Iraq when Obama took office, we will never see the same level of success in Afghanistan. The terrain is too difficult, the Taliban is too strong and the government is too weak.

The Democrats who want out of Afghanistan must be taking their lead from polls. That's their perrogative.
However wasn't it just a couple of months ago that the Taliban was nearing Islamabad and Pakistan's nuclear installations?
Maybe being a law-maker also requires making far-sighted decisions and not just reacting to opinion research.

How many unsucessful wars are we willing to wage? This fight is between the warlords and the Taliban. That is if there is any difference between those two factions. This country cannot be chqnged by outsiders. When a civil war is unavoidable, outside forces merely delay, not prevent the war. Pull all our troops from both Afghanistan and Iraq. Enough is enough. Let these people sort it out for themselves.

Honestly, regardless of where the war is people are going to oppose it. I oppose war myself, but at least this time we are fighting againist something that has affected us. Instead of trying to control another country, and tell them what is right or wrong. We are now focusing on home and defending ourselves! Anything Obama does is going to be wrong to most ppl on the right! So most of these polls are a joke.

WE have nothing to do in Afghanistan. And I support President Obama but not on this one.

Please bring our troops home from all foreign lands. Let them fight their own battles. We have nothing to gain except the poppy farms for the drug lords.

What is Obama doing? I support his efforts in Afghanistan. it would be a disaster of major proportions if it falls back to the Taliban. I support a surge if that's what he is doing! However, I don't really understand what his strategy to win in Afghanistan is?

On this historic occasion, the day WWII broke out 70 years ago, it is a good time to end this war and bring all foreign troops out of Afghanistan. Otherwise we just end up repeatint the bloody mistakes of the past.

On this historic occasion, the day WWII broke out 70 years ago, it is a good time to end this war and bring all foreign troops out of Afghanistan. Otherwise just end up repeated the mistakes of the past.

8 years later, Bush blew every opportunity. Military, International, Domestic. Utter moron. We will struggle for 2 years and retreat, claiming victory.

On the bright side, a poll of Europeans shows that they support the war more now than ever because Obama has revived our standing in the world.

Of course the public is turning against the war in Afghanistan. Obama doesn't want to be there and only politicked for it during the campaign so he could not be branded on being soft on the “war on terror”. Now that he is President, he doesn't make a case for being there except periodic references, just so be can keep the appearance of being security minded. His true feelings is he doesn't care about being there and he doesn’t have a strong enough character to stand up for what needs to be done, but is so political in everything he does that he will let the issue just die a natural death. Unfortunately, the people of this country got what they deserve ... a weak, political, socialist President that sold them a bill of goods and is slowly chipping away at our constitutional rights. And you thought Bush was bad? … wake up people!

When will Obama bring all of the troops home? When will Congress cut off funding for this awful war? It may have been started by Bush, but what is Obama and the Democrats in Congress doing to end it?

The reason some people are turning against the war may be solely that the Government is for that war. When you carry the kind of debt the US does, then create a deficit so large–people take notice. Five hundred million USD in interest? Yet, if we get Afghanistan wrong, we put ourselves in jeopardy from terrorist attack. We've already lost the war on drugs. We can't seem to secure the borders. They're trying to take away Medicare Benefits while allegedly trying to resolve and alleged healthcare crisis–and they're for the war in Afghanistan? I get the poll results, but if we leave Afghanistan in a shambles, the Drug Lord Talibani's will again come to power. That's just unacceptable.

Although I personally have difficulty accepting that the US must fighting in any war, President Obama has my complete trust and, if, from his vantage point, he believes that we must continue this war, even ratchet it up, then I fully support the effort.

All truly god-loving ,patriotic Americans are standing firmly behind our President in the continued war on terrorism.

We went to Afghanistan as that was the country that harbored the terrorists who attacked us on 9-11. We went to Iraq as a matter of choice. It just seems that Pakistan has been more active and we are eliminating a lot of terrorist leaders.

Where are the hawks who also wanted to start a war in Iran?

This war would be over if the Bush Administration would have strenthened our forces in Afghanistan instead of Invading a NO WMD WAR in Iraq. Now our forces are spread thin and our Country is in a near financial ruin. I SAY NO MORE REPUBLICAN RULE until our Country can rise again under DEMOCRATIC POLICIES. Obama 2012, Clinton 2016, 2020.

I thought we wanted to catch bin Laden? I thought this was the right war to fight?

What is wrong with this country? We have no patience, we are fickle, we want it our way or the highway, and we have no compassion for anyone.

Pres. Obama is getting it from the left and the right, which means he's probably just where he needs to be.

Of course it has a high opposition. Americans want fast clean wars and most liberals do not have the stomach it takes to win tough wars. They are the same people that would take a punch to the nose and thank their attacker rather than fighting back! This war is not pretty but it is necessary in order to prevent other groups from trying to deliver a 9-11 punch to our noses! This is an all volunteer force and these brave young men are doing an awesome job and I support them 100%!!

you libs wantt to cut an run from afganastan to. just like irak. we have too stop the muslims from killing more of our inocent people' you libs are wimps
zippy

God Bless our soldiers...Thankyou for all that you do!!! I am a wife and Mother of two proud men in service . Obama step up to the plate and be a leader for once!!!! Holder you should be ashamed of you self!!!

Its unfortunate that the American public is so short sighted to remember that 1) the Iraq war was fabricated on mis-information and therefore we should get out and 2) that the Afghanistan war was not fabricated and IS where terrorists who attack America have consistently been headquartered and trained.

If there EVER was a justification to be in a country with our military, its Afghanistan.

Due to the out right negelect of the Bush Administation for last 8 years has left President Obama a big mess. We will stay as long as the GOP is supporting this war and shove the victory down their thoats.

Wow... I was highly opposed to the Iraq War but would defend the one in Afghanistan. I am surprised so many think badly of it now.

Obama doesn't have much to gain anymore by being tough in Afghanistan, and the window of opportunity to make a difference justifying the cost of war had closed during the Bush era. It's time to go.

If President Obama wants to see his poll numbers go up, all he needs to do is start bringing most of our men and women home. This country is war weary and the current conflict in Afghanistan really has not been explained why we are even over there. He's gotten a pass so far because not too many have paid much attention to this war, but now more of our troops are dying over there and it needs to be explained to us why this is when it's going to end.

This is a job for the U.N., not the U.S.

This is the war that we should have waged from the very beginning (9/11). But the Bushies figured it might be a little more than they could handle so they chose a softie like Iraq. Kinda reminds of the schoolyard bullie doesn't it? Anyway, Afghanistan is right next door to Pakistan (nuclear weapons), so if they should ever get their hands on those they could make things kinda dicey for the rest of us. Puts us in a precarious position.

You know, Jefferson said about slavery that it was like holding a wolf by the ears - you didn't like it but you dare not turn it loose. Same analogy about Afghanistan because of nukes next door. This could indeed be Obama's Vietnam.

You mean Obama's War is in disfavor with the Democrats? That's hard to believe after all the hoopla they threw at Bush for Iraq. Maybe they figued if Bush was getting oil for his war,Obama could get Opium for his?

Remember the reason why we were in Afghanistan. It was for a valid reason, not for a bogus reason as with Iraq: We were hit on 9/11 and the people who hit us were in afghanistan. We had to remove them and follow up to ensure they will not be back in power in that country. for many years under Bush we wasted billions and precious lives when we should have concentrated in getting the war in Afghanistan under control. During those years unfortunately the Taliban and Al Qaeda got plenty of time to recuperate and strengthen themselves, so we now are suffering the results of very bad decisions from the previous administration. We need to follow through with this war so the people who hit us on 9/11 will never be in power again.

Yep, keep it up....its called self-fulfilling prophecy. The more the left stands against this war, the more our enemies are envigorated to keep up their brutal campaign of destruction. Where is the left-wing sympathy for all the bruatlized people in Afghanistan? Especially the women.......

no foreign power has ever sucessfully taken over afghanistan.i doubt we can achieve what russia and other countries have tried.checkout your history books!

Gee – sorry about that. We were busy the last 7 years getting Haliburton, Cheney, Bush et al all set for retirement with the costly war in Iraq to get the man "that tried to kill my daddy".

Too bad Bush abdicated his office of President to Cheney and let him rule the world instead of going after Bin Laden like he should have.

Thank Cheney for the distractions from the REAL war on terror.

So what and when was the all time LOW ???? CNN and all the news media are taking pages from a very old book written by W.R.Hearst. You folks have Obama at an all time low (LORD KNOWS WHERE THE RESPONDENTS ARE FROM). You have OVER PUBLICIZE the NEGATIVE TOWN HALL MEETINGS ! It appears that you are pushing your commentaries, news channel, and editorials AGAINST A very important public insurance bill. Its apparent that some of your Moderate and Liberal news folks have had some meetings with the boss helping to GUIDE them to a new found conservative tone. Looks to have happened about 5-6 weeks ago. You folks are so lackluster on political news that you are assisting in manufacturing discontent and what you folks would like tp present as newsworthy. Mabe it just me ???

Americans are sick of war, any war, and want to be done wasting lives and money on it. Besides the WingNuts who's surprised? Afghanistan will be what it always has been: a horrible desolate place of no value. I pity the people who live there but it's thier country, not mine.

What's going to be funny is listening to GOPers try to convince Dems and Independents that Obama has somehow gone back on campaign promises with respect to Afghanistan. Wrong. The fact is, there was a large chuck of the Dems hearing only what they wanted to hear when it came to Iraq and Afghanistan (and a few other domestic issues), rather than actually listening to what Obama was saying. In any event, have fun treading the hypocrisy tight rope on this one GOPers...you might just find your feet in your mouths if you try to make too much hay with this poll.

I would love to exit the war in Afghanstan. However, people forget this was the war against the people who were directly involved in the 9/11 attack. While we wasted years fighting a war in Iraq based on false and inaccurate information, we allowed the true enemy to re-establish themselves. We must finish the job we started in 2002 and eliminate the Taliban and stablize this country. Otherwise, we will be at risk to another attack from the same people. Obama has to clean another mess left by Bush and Cheney.

I currently OPPOSE the war in Afghanistan!! I also opposed the war in IRAQ! But we are there and hopefully – which I truly believe is President Obama's ultimate plan – we're getting the HECK out of both places..................... SOON ................. JUST WATCH!!!

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I thought the dems were all for Obama's escalation of hostilities in Afghanistan? And can someone tell me why there's no coverage of our dead soldiers? August was the deadliest month of the war, yet the mainstream media is silent??? From this alone you can tell who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

"I will bring the troops home in 18 months!!" [Obama on the campaign trail]

So either Obama didn't know what he was talking about.... or he was lying.

Which is it, libs? Is he incompetent or a liar??

Unfortunately we wasted lives , resources and that good old so-called American patriotism fighting for little or nothing in Iraq. This is where the battle was and is , so in the face of this unpleasant reality we must be steadfast.

Well Duh! We have not learned the lessons of Vietnam? get our sons and daughters out of harms way now. I'm sick of sacrificing our young people to fight a global war in some remote corner of the world for corportate profit.

it was my understanding that Obama was going to end these needless wars???

Bring them home, what a waste of American blood, stop Obama's WAR NOW! This is a Vietnam in the making that will continue to have increased attrition rates of our young American men and women.

Democraps against a war, thats a new one, they want the liberty to spout their liberal agenda but don't have the guts to fight for it.

Most of the time, I do not polls much credibility. However, I believe that the majority of Americans want to bring our Troops home and stop the endless war. EIGHT YEARS IS ENOUGH!

TRILLIONS WASTED THAT WE NEED AT HOME!

PRESIDENT OBAMA PLEASE END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN!

Of course public support is eroding. What do you expect to happen when the Commander-in-Chief says that victory is not necessarily the objective?

What a shock....

Americans do not like war and are, in general, non-interventionists. Now that this war is the one in the forefront, it should not be news that we don't like it.

Well, DUH!
We've wanted out of this war, and the Iraq war, for YEARS!!!
Trouble is, the war mongering republicans aren't happy unless there's a war going on.
Bring our troops home!