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As predicted. After all of the democrat chirping about Afghanistan being "the right war" we all knew it would come to this. Democrats whined and moaned about the "quagmire" in Iraq and how we couldn't possibly win there and how it had diverted our attention from "the real war" in Afghanistan. Now that we have disappointed the democrats by winning the war in Iraq, they want us to surrender in Afghanistan.

all these muslim nations are hard to win...well, we go to Afganistan, they go to Pakistan, if we go to Pakistan, they go to (sneek in) India...well, where can we go...???? Bush is an idiot, to go to Iraq, and not use diplomacy....we need to focus on fixing health care wtih public option....you know, insurance thugs will rob....us....use PAs (Physician Assistants) in rural area setting...they are the "BEST" doctors with knowledge, experience...truth...my doctor is a PA not MD......ok

Yeh, after 8 years we gonna worry about Afghanistan? What a joke! Just another waste of money. Kill Em All, Let GOD Sort Em Out!!!!

The Taliban will try to control Afghanistan as long as there is money to be made from growing poppies, which will be grown as long as there is a market for heroin.

The Afghan people need an economic alternative to poppy production.

This is a very difficult problem, to be sure.

So when will Obama bring the troops home? Bush may have started the war, but when will Obama finish it?

Uh it's the support for uhmaba thats at a all time low and getting worse every day.

This WAR is a Quagmire, and will suck all of the resources that need to be used here in this country!

I would like to know from the people that support it, who they think is paying for it, we are broke. How long do they think China are going to support our Debt ??

What is wrong with our country? What is wrong with our people? They sat idly by while Bush invaded Iraq – knowing full well that that nation had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. Precious resources that could have been used to capture Bin Laden and put the Taliban out of business were diverted for personal obsession and oil.

Now, our people actually want to walk away, leaving the Taliban and Al Qaeda to control and use Afghanistan as a base to attack us again. How can anyone justify that?

This is the war we should have continued. This is the war we MUST win!

We MUST continue until the job is done. And contrary to the lib press, IT IS WORKING!!!

It's about time to wrap this one up.

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

I beg to differ with Osamma on his interpretation of the cause of Afghan.......God is righteous, loving , compassionate, full of wisdom, intelligent...he will not be fooled by garbled talk. His wisdom tells earthly beings to rescuse the poor, the homeless, the hungry, the oppressed and tells us to trust to him to reveal that which is evil. When we separate ourselves from God's great wisdom when we take this cause for ourselves and it gets distorted. You have your enemies confused in your mind for it is not of the flesh you are fighting.

Many of us who are opposed to this war are opposed to the way it is being fought. If we are going to go to war, then let's do it full scale and get it over with - let's stop fighting this war as we did Vietnam =- with hands tied behind our backs. If we're going to win, we need to pull out all the stops and bomb the hell out of the country - let the chips fall where they may - it will rid the country of its poppy growth and kill its Taliban.
The way we go to war is ridiculous - expecting our young men to not fire when they are fired upon; training the enemy because no one knows who is the enemy, etc., etc. etc.

as horribly against the afghanistan war i am i think that we have put the afghan people in a horrible position and i beleive that we should improve their situation in protecting themselves from the increased threat that we have created for them before we leave. however i do feel that we should do this as quickly as possible.

What do people suggest? Do they suggest that we leave and let bin Laden go free? It's amazing to me how the same people who were championing us going after the terrorist when Bush was in office and getting nothing done are now the same people wanting to pull out 9 months after Obama's in office.

Didn't he say that he would step it up in Afghanistan? Didn't people vote for him anyway? It's like people can't even remember what happened yesterday.

Despite the necessity of stabalizing Afghanistan as can be seen in history, I have no doubt that President Obama will sway with public opinion in order to avoid being disliked. Stay the course democrats, soon he will give in and allow Afganistan to fall back into the state that it was during the Clinton years.

Dear President Obama,

Please bring our Troops home. Take a lesson from history, Afghanistan has been in turmoil for years and years. We will not be able to make a difference.

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME! We NEED the money at home!

Let's just say that support for WAR is at an all time low, OK? In Afghanistan and/or anywhere else.

If Bush hadn't gone and invaded Iraq, then we would have had more troops there to stop Taliban and Al Qeada. We would have had a better sense of the land and more Afghan troops trained.

I hope that the new movement in Afghanistan that the commanding general and President Obama have in mind works. The American public has never been in the mood for a prolonged fight.

First of all, nobody "likes" war. However, this is a war we can and will win. It is a war we have to win, because it is crucial to our national security.

send them home now....

Democrats are such weenies. Clinton dropped our guard, so the bad guys could come here and blow us up. Bush won the war in Iraq, and Obama, to give the 'Abamanation' some credit, is smart enough to use the same strategy Now, here comes the left, saying let's drop our guard again. I guess next time it will take the Empire State Building going down to put another few months of spine into them....

Well that's the liberal way of drumming up support for our troops! Way to go CNN!

The best thing we could do is get the Pakistanis to take the fight to the Taliban, which is currently happening. Pakistan has a robust miliary and they should be capable of beating a few thousand thugs with AK-47's and rocket launchers. Bush was never able to get them to take responsibility for their own country, but Obama has.

Given the current state of affairs in Afghanistan, having a strong Pakistan on their border to keep the Taliban/Al Qaeda in check might be the best we can hope for. Anything more ambitious than that would take years, and we don't have the money or patience for that.

Well yeah!! The terrorists got mean treatment in prison, doesn't matter that they hate us and killed thousands of Americans and are plotting to do more, we need to be nice to them, then they will like us and maybe quit chopping off our heads. Our tax dollars should not be wasted on keeping Americans safe, they should be spent buying houses, computers, cars and welfare for the poor people and the illegals who only want us to provide them with a better life and free healthcare/prenatal care for their growing families.

How can Americans support a war that has no solid goal for achievement and is under supplied with the troops needed to actually complete any mission? That is what a Leader of MEN is to do, rally our countrymen and Congress in support by establishing a clear and detailed goal with realistic strategy, so far Obama and Congress have been like a bag of Cats or shotgun blast with their strategies. We presently are sending our servicemen to a hostile region to slowly be killed off or wounded one by one. America needs to either send in troops to get it done or tuck our tail between our legs and bring them home!

Pull our troops out let the taliban think they have won and when they all come out in the streets to celabrate drop a ICBM right in the middle of them.

And before the Right-Wing swifites start laying blame, remember your boy, Bush, put us in this mess, not Obama.

This should stop. As well as the other war based on lies in Iraq. Figures the war mongering Republicans would still support this rubbish. They don't like the goverment to spend money on the uninsured for heatlh care. But, they can't throw enough money at hate and destruction. Losers.

But, Obama needs to wise up and stop this nonsense.

Support for the war may be at a low, but this is the war that needs to be fought. Not only in AFPAK, but internationally. The arrests made in Queens yesterday is an example of what I mean. The assault in Somalia is what I mean. Take the war to he enemy! Al Queda is an international terrorist organization and we must hunt them down wherever they may lurk. Battle on!

american people are getting board with this movie maybe time to move on to next war the one the cia is putting together in south america

This country is experiencing war fatigue. We’ve been fighting since 2001 and there appears to be no end to it and this country is tired. To that end I say, remember on September 11, 2001 when people were jumping out of burning buildings? The battle in Afghanistan should be the focus of our fight because of its significance to Al-Quida. We need to eradicate poppy fields that are the life blood of terrorist funding and eliminate Al-Quida and Taliban threats to our national security. It may not be popular, but it has to be done.

Considering the administration wanted to downplay the remembrance of 9/11, this isn't surprising. We need to decide whether we want to go after and eliminate Al Qaeda and their enablers, the Taliban, or do we want to send a message – as we did under Carter – that we have no intention of fighting them, inviting another attack.

Remember the 3000 they killed and lets go get them. Maybe Obama needs to make a speech on this.

Proof that your president cannot deliver on his campaign rehetoric. More soldiers get sent over, more deaths and all from a party that denounces war! Do you honestly think killing Osama is all this important? As any soldier will tell you, there is always someone to take the lead when one dies.

Sadly, the American public has a short memory. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan really IS where the terrorists who attacked us (and who are still planning to do more) live and train. Afghanistan is the right and appropriate place to be in response to 9/11.

But perhaps the Obama administration needs to gear up some communication strategies around Afghanistan so that people remember.

One of the few times I have to agree with the Republicans. This war is the only one we should have been fighting all along. Sadly, so much money, human life, and time have been diverted to Iraq that we now have a much harder task to complete in Afghanistan. The strategic value of this country in fighting Al Qaida in Pakistan, as well as theTaliban who aid Al Qaida, makes it imperative that we stabilze Afghanistan quickly, and in order to do this, we must build up troops.
We must support this effort because this is where our real enemy is and has been all along.

I vote No. Enough with the wars already – the rest of the world is laughing at us, or shunning us. This is NOT our problem. Bring the troops home and strengthen Homeland Security. Let the rest of the world deal with this mess. Same with Iraq. Just leave. There have been wars in these two countries since the advent of time. They will eventually figure it out among themselves.

Now, explain to me exactly where we are after eight years in Afghanistan. The citizens of Afghanistan hate us because we continue to act like ugly Americans. Their government is even more corrupt, like that's possible! The war lords are still running the show in a stone age culture and selling narcotics like it's an open house at a Wal Mart pharmacy. I do know that many young Americans are dead or living with catastrophic injuries, Osama Bin Laden is hiding out in the border regions still thumbing his nose at us and encouraging his jihadist soldiers to continue to kill as many of us as possible. A failed policy by the Bush administration from the very start...maybe? They kept us safe from terrorism right after they allowed the largest terrorist attack in our history.

Why don't you give a little more information such as, what % of those polled identified themselves as a Democrat, Republican, or Independent?
Were 90% Democrats?

Whatever; just remember this one is "Obama's War"

Why don't you give a little more information such as, what % of those polled identified themselves as a Democrat, Republican, or Independent?
Were 90% Democrats?

So, the conservatives are starting to cut and run on the Afgan war, huh? I guess that's because it's not the W's war anymore. losers.

That is right ! Bring our brave service people home now! No more War for corporate profit.

Republicans love war – they love these wars because they started them.
These wars need to end NOW.

The only purpose of the war in Afghanistan should have been to catch and kill Osama bin Laden and his henchmen. Bush blew it. We should have left at that point.

There was no purpose for the Iraq war, except the personal retribution of W against Saddam, for his daddy's sake. The American people, especially its military people, have paid over and over for Bush's grudge, but W himself will never pay.

What happened to the folks who claimed they would stop the war? – We elected the liars.

Our attention span is about a week, we've had 7 years of war. It dosen't mean we should leave. We have to focus on a clear cut mission and just do it.

It amazing how many people just simply don't get it. These terrorists WILL attack us if we don't get to them first. If we leave that door open, issues like Health Care will no longer matter. I support Obama and his current efforts in Afghanistan.

I would like to ask President Obama the same questions I would have liked to ask President Bush

1. What is the goal of the AF operation?
2. How will we measure our progress/lack of progress?
3. What is the exit criteria for success/failure?

The first question is the most important - What are we hoping to accomplish?

And do we really have a reasonable expectation that we can accomplish our goals (what ever they are).

This one we really can blame Bush for. If he had put the resources into that war and not into Iraq; we would have been finished and we would not have been put through what we have been regarding the economy/lost jobs and the fight now over health care.

All this suffering because of a really "lying" President.

As a Father of a Marine Vet who fought in Haditha and was part of the Marine Surge last year, I support our troops with my whoe heart. I support the job they are doing. I support them in prayer. If the Generals say they need more troops, then send them. I do not like ANY war, however, this is our war and we must succeed. Get the Politicans out of it. They have a vested interest – re-election. The ground commanders know what they need – Give it to them.

Now that we know Cheney and Bush were behind the attacks, the whole war seems like a horrible joke they played on us. OK, dead guys, you can get up now. No? Aw, come on. Let's play WMDs some more, that game NEVER gets old.

The real question, though, is whether the U.S. has the stomach to see this fight through beyond an immediate push and through to a successful conclusion?

The all time low is brought to you by the democrats in congress.

We've spent so much on the Iraq war in $ and lives.. People are sick of it... It's kind of sad too, because this is where we should have been the whole time and only here!!!

This is the war we should have been fighting the entire time. This is where our focus needs to be, not distracting ourselves cause we can't find Osama.

Just because Bush has worn us out with Iraq does NOT take away from the importance of the real fight in Afganistan and Pakistan.

Many journalists are saying this is now President Obama's war. Well, really it isn't . It is President Bush's first war and is the one that he dropped the ball on in favour of the Iraq war which had nothing to do with 911. He left the NATO forces out to dry in Afghanistan and we all know that. If he had put all of his effort and troops into Afghanistan to begin with, it probably would all have been over with long ago. Now it is another mess left for President Obama to try and clean up along with trying to get troops out of Iraq. No President has been left such a long list of major problems to deal with on Day 1 and President Obama has been pragmatically, carefully and clearly trying to deal with them. He's doing a great job.

Bush's fault, Bush's fault that Obama doesn't have a clue what he is doing. Community organizers only know how to deal with such great organizations as ACORN. More federal funding to ACORN, they do such good in the community. It's really great that they counsel people on how to lie to the government.

The American Government, Media, and People will lose this war like they did Viet Nam, only the US Military are willing to fight to WIN!

Although I'm what you'd call a liberal, I support the war. We really need to finish what we started because if we leave now, the whole area would turn to chaos. Also it would be nice to nab Osama and string him up, but we all know he's playing golf and reminiscing about the good old days with George W. in Saudi Arabia right about now. Have a nice day!

P.S. What the heck is up with these rumors about Glenn Beck's shady past that I keep hearing about? How come he hasn't come out and denied them?

And does anyone recall Russia's experience in Afghanistan? Seriously. Do we want another Vietnam??

I guess people have forgotten why we are there! Wake up America – you can not take a punch in the nose and run away. We need to finish the job no matter how difficult it is. I know that it bothers most Dems that we are not winning there all of a sudden. They want to believe that the wars were mis-managed by the previous administration. Now they discover that war is not as easy as they thought it should be! Reality is settling in for the Dems....

Well that's because our new President is clueless about how to handle the war or anything else. Maybe he needs a few more Czars to think for him!

Yea, let the taliban take it back over and build new schools on how to kill Americans. Go in, take them all out and get it over with.

So we no longer want to get Bin Laden for attacking us? That makes no sense at all. Oh maybe we feel like since we got Saddam Hussein, who by the way didn't attack us, we can forget about Bin Laden? Now that makes a lot of sense!