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I am a supporter of President Obama and while I am glad he has finally made up his mind what to do about Afghanistan, I hope he realizes that rebuilding a government and a nation that was not there in the first place is not our task. I hope he considers that if any rebuilding is going to be done it should be here in America. We need to rebuilding our own country first and not worry about other countries until we are cool in our own homes. We need to stop spending our money to bribe people that only want us there so they can take our bribe money.

Bring it all home Mr. President and bribe us here at home. Put the money into our country and jobs, tax breaks jobs, jobs, health care, the homeless, education and our infrastructure. If we spend it here at home we will create more business that will in turn create more jobs to make and sell items we will buy with our own money and not with borrowed money from China.

President Obama should bring the troops home. There is no war in the world. What there is, just a group of invisible people who can not be fought by the military. A well organised under cover intelligece will
break up this groups, catch or kill their leaders. The billions of dollars
that is wasted to fight invisible enemies will be useful , if for example this money is given to Afghans or iraqis who may provide some secrets about this terror groups. Sending more soldiers to arms way is like committing suicide. I very much foresee more coffins being brougt back to helpless parents. Soldiers shall never capture bin Laden but the people of the world will. So use the people.

another photo opt.... Get out of the war and think of americans lives saved, especially others that are not minorties. Because that is what is being sent out to war from the services. I suggest sending all the illegals, why shoud we support the illegals and give them citizenship per Obama. then entitlements??? Obama should think about the lost jobs to NAFTA and how to bring the jobs back to the US...Now he is having a state dinner with his Hollywood persons who gave campaign money to him, how sad...

It seems to me that Biden is the only one who can look at the president without a look of bewilderment on their face. Every else just repeating to themselves "how did this happen".

For those of you who think he has never made a decision on Afghanistan, remember that he has already ordered 21,000 extra troops more than the previous administration. He did that right after taking office.

And also remember, once they are deployed, when do they come home? Without a plan, they are there forever and if and when they are withdrawn, it looks like a defeat.

Also, it costs approximately $1 million per soldier per year to be in Afghanistan. So, for an additional $40 billion per year of your tax money, we can have an additional 40,000 troops in country.

I wonder which one in the picture will be blamed by Obama if Afghanistan plan will not work? Hillary? Who else? Bush is not in the table, so he is out. Hmm.. Wait 'till things go wrong and Obama will start pointing finger to either of this one.
I prefer Bill Clinton because he never played the "blame" game. He is more mature than Obama.

The reason Obama is taking so long on this is because it will be HIS decision and if it turns out to be a bad one he won't be able to blame Bush for it... up until now he and his administration have taken zero responsibility for anything and have had a group of adoring followers in the MSM shelter him from real criticism... but the "Just Blame Bush" days are over and not even his best friends in the media will be unable to protect him if his ideas on Afghanistan don't work.

That said, for our soldiers sake, our President's sake, and the sake of America, I pray that whatever he comes up with works and we can get out of that abyss called the Middle East... enough already... I am tired of us sending young Americans to their deaths in a land where all they know is violence.

I just enjoy reading the pundits from these arm chair war mongers, the majority of whom have never actually fought in a war or even served except in a video game, If you leave it up these knuckle heads, just send the troops, we will figure it out when we get there. The President is doing exactly what he should be doing, before sending these outstanding young men and womens into a hostile enviroment, take his time, make the generals give him a plan for wining and an exit plan not a maybe if we do this plan.

Can't wait! What is this, like the 99th dumb decision that is likely to come from the White House in the last 9 years? When are we going to have an actual competent president again? I wonder what that's like. Bush couldn't even speak English properly and now we have Obama, who when the economy or something is going bad, tries to distract us with focusing our attention on things like health care. Nice. Another fool in the White House, what's new.

Okay. Give me a show of hands on who wants to have more meetings. Okay, who wants to cut and run? Okay, who wants to do as the Generals want? Okay, who was in charge of ordering the Chinese food. When do we eat? I developed a taste for their food while I was in China. That rickshaw hat was pretty cool too. Looks like the more meetings group won. Meeting adjourned.

how many of you voted for these wars in the beginning? our troops are coming home!!!!

Photo ops is all we get anymore, all the way to china to film him on the wall for the next campaign. We should own that wall by now thanks to wal-mart. President Obama has been thinking for over 90 days to get a national press conference out of this. When he salutes the teleprompter, that is the signal that he is now in charge, no change here, hope left too.

OMG – A president who T H I N K S. It does take some getting use to.

president only been in office less than a year -– everybody in the united states knows it takes time to get thing right -- after all it bush 43 that got the united states in this mess ---- for those who are doing all the complaining maybe the united states should have went into a deep recession and then just maybe some of you would appreciate the things you do have and the things you still can do--- everybody is complaining but no one has extended a hand to help the president out --- including the republicans - oh and by the way sarah palin wouldn't have did a better job either remember she quit her job ----- and for the one's that are trying to be smart SPELL THE PRESIDENT'S NAME CORRECTLY------------–

The GOP complains and criticizes President Obama for taking time to discern about the Afghan war. Those war mongers posting here, should all volunteer to go fight this senseless war!

IF we continue this EIGHT YEAR war, then we need to consider fighting in Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, etc. Terrorists are in all these countries. Soon we will not have enough Troops to fight.

Bush took 3 months to decided on the surge in Iraq. But the far-right wants Obama to make a quick decision. Hypocrisy never ends.

The majority of Americans, 62%, see the war in Afghanistan as another Vietnam. We must withdraw, because eventually we will withdraw. We need the trillions being spent on the Bush Wars here at home!

In 4 years, that will be a picture of President Palin and her all white woman cabinet. Palin will drive all men young and old OUT of government.

Let's get ready conservatives!

If he puts in more troops - HE's WASTING OUR MONEY!

If he pulls out troops - HE's LOST THE WAR!

If he does nothing – HE's DOING NOTHING!

Excellent. No matter what is done – OBAMA IS AN EVIL SOCIALIST WHO HATES AMERICA!

Please Mr. President...

...Don't let the inbred confederate traitors...

...Dick Cheney and his treasonous conservative ilk...

...goad you into a mistake...

...LEAVE Afghanistan...

...$1 million dollars per soldier, somebody is STEALING!

...Cheney and Bush should be tried for theft and treason, and justice meted out to them...

This guy is a clueless idiot. 2012 can't come soon enough.

Looks like a room full of nut cases and dorks to me....i cant wait till this guys out of there!!!!

I love reading these comments that OBOZO is doing it right unlike Bush.

Hmmm, Just what is OBOZO doing right?

This CLOWN has ZERO accomplishments, ZERO.

He has succeeded in TRIPLING THE DEFICIT
Having CHINA and IRAN tell him where to go
Having UNEMPLOYMENT RISE and continue to RISE
Having the DOLLAR get weaker by the day
Squandering the STIMULUS (PORK) Money
Lying about jobs created / saved
Bailing out UNION Companies
Bribing senators to try and vote for his crappy HC plan

Yeah, I'm all for CHANGE NOW, IIMPEACH OBUMMER

I am all for making deliberate decisions, but on matters this important I wish Obama would set other things aside and spend his time on the Afghanistan decision. People are dying every day, and if his decision is to get out, those lives (human, American lives, important to their families) would have been SAVED. If more troops are going in, it actually takes many months to get them there. The additional troops this president authorized in February are STILL not there.

Please, no more golf or outings or overseas trips until you figure this out, Mr. President. People are dying on YOUR watch.

WoW!!! Some of the idiotic things I read from clueless people on these posts. We finally have a President that takes the time to make sure we are not rushing into something and have benchmarks and you complain like babies.. Maybe he should have just said they have WMDs (that's weapons of mass destruction) for some of you geniuses.. Oh that's right that's what the last guy did. Grow up and except the fact that things have changed for the better and stop hating...

Look, a photo op trying to make OBOZO look important.

Well, the shine is off.

OBOZO has been a "staged" candidate / president, and most people have woken up to this fact.

It's TIME FOR CHANGE
IMPEACH OBUMMER

Well if we vote with our brains, then the Republicans are in trouble in 2012. Really, listen to what they actually say. It is idiotic.

Always a conservative, your comment is truly about the funniest thing I read in a while. "Obama makes george bush look good" LOL, by the way you spelled George wrong loser. First of all, anyone that thinks W was a good president is a sad, sad, sad excuse of a person so i guess that's you always a conservative, LOLLLLLLLLLL

Hurry up on health care reform...hurry, hurry, hurry. Take it slow on an Afghanistan decision. Doesn't health care reform deserve the same deliberate and deliberative process.

I appreciate the President's careful deliberation. I work with the military and know the angst the delay on a decision has caused. However, he is the Commander in Chief and the military in its typical professional manner will go forth and do what it is ordered to do. Our military is a remarkable ogainization.

Civilian leadership of the military is a tradition established at the Nation's founding and has help preserve liberty for over 200 years.

I hope he decides to pull almost all of our troops out and spends a fraction of the war money on increased intelligence gathering, civil projects for the Afghan people, as well as increasing the reward for Osama Bin Laden tenfold.
They don't want us there, we don't want us there, and we can't afford it anyways.
Republicans have become big spenders and every now and again you need to deny them a war they want to sink all of our money into.
I hope Obama gets this right.

Either we're going to win this war or not...if Obama is just going to sit there with a dumb look on his face and watch the polls, get our guys out of there. Obama has never said he wants victory in Afghanistan – he just wants to get out. So, make a decision already, idiot – if you want out, don't let any more guys pay the ultimate price while you wait.

Hello, Mr. Farve, can you help us make a decision? You are so good at making a decision and sticking with it.

Thank goodness this President has some intelligence. At least he has a plan! Beats the Bush/Cheney lies in Iraq of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cheney is a critic about Obama taking his time but at least he is looking at having a plan and an exit. Cheney's game plan about lying to the American public about weapons that didn't exist, have cost the US dearly: cost us billions and billions in a deficit, had a huge impact on our economy tanking, and the thousands of soldiers left with lifelong injuries and the thousands of soldiers that have died. And for what Bush/Cheney? A dictator? Oil? You took your eye off of the target who attacked us: Osama! You let your greed rule over our sons and daughters blood in Iraq. Thank goodness Obama is taking his time!

Hillary, take that seat in 2012.

Okay what is so hard about this decision. Let me help you out Mr. President weighing your pros anc cons:

Pros: none

Cons: We will be another country added to the list of countries who will never change the mentality of Afganies

Cons: We are fighting a war of Ideology which we will never win

Cons: We are losing good Americans everyday fighting an enemy who we cannot see

Cons: Everytime we drop a 5 ton bomb trying to kill a few people and end up wiping out entire blocks, more terrorist are created

Cons: All the money wasted on a futile effort, that money spent could be used to secure America.

So I say don't send another troop there, get all of troops out of there and let Pakistan, Russia, Iran, and whomever else borders them deal with them.

Lead, follow or get out of the way Barry

It is way to late....

OBAMA: Quick everyone, look like you are doing something.. The last picture here looked like you were totally ignoring me.. At least pretend that you are not

Is the President and the Vice President supposed to be in the same place at the same time?????? Or, was that a FAKE ASH Cheney thing!!! Too afraid of his own STAFF so he TELECAST from a BUNKER somewhere!!!

This is a NICE picture – what do you SEE? I see our President getting it RIGHT!!!

Looks like the so called Nobel Peace Prize winner is escalating war.

I knew the prize was a little hasty and given to the wrong person.

This is just another thing he will lie about. He has played politics with the welfare of our troops whom he

thank God we have a President who will weigh all the facts and opinions of his cabinet and experts when making a decision which will effect the lilves of so many of our soldiers, their families and all U.S. citizens. Let's just pray that he makes the right one.

Isn't in interesting that Republicans have no problem with spending a billion dollars per year, per soldier to fight for some stinking piece of sand 6000 miles away, but they're all up in arms about spending money at home on health care to take care of our own citizens. What a joke.

Good Photo CNN – that's all of the country's problems right there in a single frame....minus Pelosi and Reid

It is such a relief to know that responsible sane adults are making these decisions in a deliberative way instead of the genital-thinking of the morally defecive children of the Bush junta.

All the libs will comment that it is good that this President takes his time to carefully weigh his decision. Then on the other hand they scream that we need to pass health care right this second and not take time to read the bill or even let us, the American public, debate the bill. And don't forget the bill was drafted behind locked doors with no input from the Republican party that all of you libs say have no ideas. You can't give input if you are locked out of the process. And then in the nastiest way possible the libs will say the right is stupid and doesn't care. I care that the Chinese OWN us and we are still spending.

If Hillary was at the head of the table, we would not have waited for more troops to die for a decision.

Obama fails on the 3 a.m. call.

President Obama – PLEASE make sure you take Colin Powell's advice into consideration and DO NOT base your decision solely on the FAR RIGHT and/or FAR LEFT!!! This is the ONE decision you will make that will show who the COMMANDER IN CHIEF is and what he is all about – YOU ONLY will be responsible!!

You are very SMART and CALCULATING... I and many Americans TRUST you and your decision!!!

U GO BOY!!

The manner in which Republicans have criticized Obama for the drawn-out consideration process is unpatriotic.

I have absolute confidence in our President to investigate all avenue before setting an any one of the many less then ideal solutions available.

President Obama has demonstrated, in his short time in office, that he in more interested in making the right decisions and pushing the hard changes rather then taking the easy roads that would have made reelection easier. Nevertheless, I am sure of his reelection. In spite of the current, well funded, orchestrated campaign to undermine his creditability, he is widely perceived as credible, where as his opponents are not.

Maybe if this process had been carried out during the original decision, we wouldn't still be there.

President Obama's careful review of the evidence and the importance of this decision is worth the wait of a couple of weeks.
Your comments about "dithering" and "putting our troops at risk" are bogus. The troops were already put at risk by a blithering idiot who ran the White House the past 8 years. A couple more weeks of a decision making process, to right some of the past military/political wrongs of the last administration, will not endanger the troops any more than they already are.

If President Obama can get this right, with a timely exit strategy, money can be put to better use back on home soil, to continue the edict of "CHANGE" that the people voted for.

Whatever happened to the Obama who said we will have victory in Afghanistan??????

So, oBLAHma and his gang of thiefs need to wait until they can 'spin' their decision. Obie is not a leader and this again is shown with these facts. Something as important as our defense and country safety is being delayed for either political reasons or a lack of intelligence to make the decision.

Just look around the table at the advisors this country has to rely on. If this is the best the United Stastes of America has to offer then its no wonder we are $10 trillion in the hole and have an unemployment rate of over 10 %. Until we start paying our high ranking officials the money that matches salaries of CEO's we will continue to get middle of the road or worse performance from our gov't officials.

So quickly? Will this be better than the Stimulus, concoted in two weeks, or Pelosi's dead of night, weekend health care reveal and vote?

Its all a crock and will be a bad decision no matter what he does.

What's a few more days?

Get out of Afghanastan now. Let those towel- headed bastards kill themselves so we won't have so many to kill in the future world wide war with Islam.

Thank you president Obama for thinking for a long time before sending our children to war! We are all so proud of you.

Can you imagine this scene with McCain and Palin in O's and Joe's places? I just laugh thinking about it and am soooo thankful that the American people made the right choice. America is finally back on the track and steaming towards progress.

obama is playing politics with our troops' lives, "straight up".

Did anyone else hear about "Climategate"???

CNN will wait a few days to report on it. They're working on the spin right now.

WOW!

I think BO is showing, with the gesture, the path of the paper airplane he just launched. Probably did a little pin the tail on the donkey while in there also. Whatever they've been doing it must not have much to do with Afghanistan. Ten meetings needed to decide whether to deploy more troops or not???

A decision on Afganistan is coming soon to a theater near you!

Maybe acting with boldness and letting the Generals on the ground make the decisions might just be a better way of running this war.

President says...."whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan" psssst...our people over there needed troops months ago yet this President drags his feet. How sad for our brave military HEROES, how very very sad as they die waiting for help.

old news..he has been making decision (he he he) since lat month)

Unlike the Bush Administration, who thought ignoring our military leaders, thumping their chests and hanging "Mission Accomplished" banners would win a war, President Obama is actually taking the time necessary to gather all the facts and consider all scenarios in order to make the best decision for our country and our troops.

Thank you, Mr. President!

I am so GLAD THIS DECISION WASN'T MADE OUT OF HASTE.

Because the old saying "...HASTE makes WASTE...." is so true in our current 2 WARs and the previous administration to expose some of our strength/vulnerabilities (PRIDE/GREED/POWER MANIACs). Thus a no win situation in the war and economic meltdown.

Mr President, please make a good decision that keeps our National Security the Best, Normalize our budget of cost and lives in these terrible war and Get Us Out of There with Respect. All Generals want to do is add more people and fight more wars.....

Three months to make a decision on a simple request for 40,000 more troops to aid in the fight against the Taliban. The man can sure think on his feet can't he.

I'm just relieved that he wasn't our president during the 1962 October missile crisis, this nation would still be digging out from under the ruins.

I think it's time to find an exit strategy for this ill-conceived war.

How refreshing that we now have a president who considers all his options before sending troops into harm's way. Maybe if he made his calls, "from the gut", his poll numbers would be rising...
The general asking for 40,000 more troops does not have the responsibility to consider how many total troops the army has left. He doesn't have to consider that if we sent all 40,000 asked, there would be only a few thousand more left uncommitted.

Oh boy!!!! Since the repugs have criticized him, he will send more troops. "FACADE". He's a republician in a democratic suit. No backbone at all. That's the reason why everyone wanted to vote for HILLARY. If you want something done and done correctly, give it to a women. PERIOD.

Way too slow and way too conservative. keep your promises....

Obama does'nt have a clue. He is just hoping the others will come up with something.

Republicans are mad that he's not cleaning up THEIR mess on THEIR timetable.
Do they forget that Afghanistan and Iraq happened on their watch?

President Obama will clean up their mess and I for one would like to see this well thought out.

GOP: The American Taliban.

I sure hope they prayed on this.......

It's about time! Doesn't Obama have any sense of urgency? He is a sad, sad excuse for a President. In fact, Obama makes Geaorge Bush look good!

well one thing is for certain, no matter what he chooses to do the Republicans will be opposed to it. They already are in favor of sending more troops over there, but if the president has decided to do that it would almost mean that he and the Republicans would be in agreement on something. OH NO God FORBID that to happen... so to keep up their plan of total opposition they seem to have decided to be opposed if he sends troops that don't meet the number they would like to be sent. Have to keep with the plan you know!

This administration has no problems giving away millions of dollars of cell phones to welfare folks but now wants to tax us to pay for the military????????? This administration is clueless.............

No, really, take your time. The generals on the ground ask for something specific MONTHS ago. Then they are at LEAST looking for some sense of direction.

This guy is an absolute joke. He can't make a decision for the life of him. He is quickly becoming the biggest joke of a president we have EVER had... and that is saying alot to beat out Carter.

This failed presidency has a chance to redeem itself a little bit with this decision. I don't really care if he adds more troops or not, as long as he can demnostrate a clear and precise method and goal in his decision making process and not just fall back on the stupid ideology of most of his supporters. He is still toast in 2012, but perhaps not so many will die if he at least does this right. I figure its a 50/50 chance that he might actually uphold his constitutional duties for once, but this idiot has done nothing to instill any confidence in him.

How many times have we heard that? This decision should have been made months ago. This war was nothing new and Obama has had over a year to deal with it. Next time people need to vote with their brains.

I know President Obama will send more troops... Let's hope for victory at the end... The folks that are accusing the President for not sending troops earlier can then rest and wait for casualties as a result of escalating the war. These same folks are busy enjoying there lives and going about there business while there fellow citizitens are been killed in Afghanistan.... If you folks like war that much, what are you then waiting for? join the military and get deployed to Afghanistan.

The answer is simple - consider what VP Biden recommends, and then do the exact opposite, as Biden has been dead wrong on every foreign policy prognostication he's made in the past 30 years.

Forget the republicans. The president is during the right thing in carefully considering the options for the US. He has a host of intelligent, thoughtful, and qualified personnel to help him make a sound decision. But as we all know, no matter what he decides, the repugs will oppose his decision. They should have stood up to Bush II before he got us into this mess in the first place.

So, Obama is gonna send another 40,000 troops to Vietnam (oops, sorry, Afghanistan) in a war without end. And here we thought by defeating McCain we'd a peace president in the White House. Obama will soon earn the title of Chief Hypocrite.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the USA been at war ,somewhere, since the 1950's? At what point do Americans call enough is enough in regard to feeding the industrial-military machine? How about looking after Americans and American infrastructure?

we're waiting.....

I just love that we have a President that is extremely analytical and thoughtful in terms of his approach to very important complex issues.

I love his entire team, what a great picture that is reflective of the society that we live in.

Well, making a troop increase one year into his presidency is still an improvement over the previous administration who has completely ignored Afghanistan in favor of Iraq since 2003!

Taliban are Afghan citizens they will fight for their land

Afghan and Pakistan governments are corrupted

Al-Qaida is our enemy they are living in Pakistan with the help of Taliban

This is big mess then why we have to send our men and women in harms way

Obama take time we understand you

Weighing all the options is fine, but this is hindering on ridiculous.

Newsflash to Mr. Obama, this is the big league. You can't vote present anymore.

Of course he will add more troops and when (not if) there aren't enough boots, the draft will come!

Of course, it is all for the good of the country. (eyes rolling).

you could have just quietly released what would happen, now a big loud reaction will take place

anyway, I say bomb the bejesus out of them

Only shows one thing , Ever in need of help , Next time it mite be before election day.

Obama say's one thing , but does what he schooled. Like FT.HOOD , when they played the National Anthem , stood there holding his Kroch , while all others covered there heart or salauted. What betrail , Now an then .

Send him back to the first grade class , Pronto .

It is nice to see some thinking coming back to the White House. The previous administration didn't seem to be so heavy on that. I hope that Obama is thinking of consequences of what will happen based on various actions he does or doesn't take. That would be several steps above Bush.

He's met with these people 9 times already. Why do they have name-plates? Doesn't he know who they are by now? No wonder this has been a difficult decision.

my problem with this process is not that this particular decision has taken a long time. Instead, it is bothersome that Pres Obama does not seem to have a strategy for Afghanistan, even after he has been in office for 10 months. It isn't as though this war was not known to him before he took office.

I don't think troops is the answer or problem. The policy needs to be defined. After WWWI , WWWII, Korea, Viet Nam and Iraq you would think that we would learn something. The only ones we actually won were when we did everything to win. In each instance when we just tried to defeat a select few or to defend the country we were in we have never won. If we continue on in Afghanistan, Iraq and soon Iran, we will always be there.
How long have we had troops in Korea now? Protecting another country for 60 years is not victory. Is it now going to be the same throughout the world?

I'd love to see what Hillary is writing on her pad.

"I should be in that seat! This guy hasn't a clue, we need a strong woman with experience in the chair to my right, not some community organizer. I would have brought experience to that chair, hell, even John McCain would have brought experience to that chair! Oops, better give him my cell number, in case that 3 a.m. phone call comes in."

For all of you that are blasting President Obama about "dithering" and "decision making", he was NOT the President who sent American soldiers into harms way in the FIRST PLACE!! He is going to make the correct decision with regard to how to extricate the US from an unsatisfactory condition in Afghanistan.

I wonder how you make the most important decision of your life. By the looks of things, the GOP jump right in blindly and then grope around for a necessary result. When finding none, they jump right into another one without concluding the first. Sounds also like a certain former Governor.

Have a little patience. It took a long time for the Republicans to drive the US into it's current state. It will take a long time to right the ship. Good thing the Dems will have a second term to do it!

Gee, I wonder if President Obama has pondered upon this decision long enough?

no matter what he decides, the republicans will criticize him for it.

the party of no only knows one word ... and that word is "no".

Gee what a bunch of rocket scientists! Thinking America knew from the beginning that Obama would send somewhere around 35,000 more troops to Afghanistan, to support HIS war of necessity. This is a re-run of history with Lyndon Johnson played by Hollywood's greatest recent theatrical achievement, Barry Obama. Watch the escalation in fighting, watch the waste of tax dollars, watch another Middle East debacle of death from the comfort of your living room on your brand new wide screen plasma TV, directly made in CHINA!

2010, 2012 Independents take us back to our America!

I'm not interested in polls, I'm interested in meetings such as the one pictured above. Seeing people like Hillary, Biden, the Sect'y of Defense and other key individuals surrounding our President assure me that whatever the decision it is being made int he right context and with all the necessary input. Unlike previous decisions, by previous administrations that took place in seance-like settings, or were "divine" inspirations with no one from this world present to agree or disagree.

We're with you all the way sir.... oorah.

Take your time and do it right this time,and don't attack the wrong Country like the last administration.

It is time to face the facts and pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan. Centuries of tribal warfare can not be corrected by anyone other than those involved and they have not and probably never will be able to make the necessary decisions to live together in peace. You can not overcome centuries of war-like behavior and import decent behavior to a people who do not understand it and do not want it. Let them kill each other off if this is their wish. Not one more American life should be given to aid a people who will not help themselves. Mr. Obama was elected on the idea that he would not continue the stupid war-mongering decisions made by Bush. Do not send more troops. Let the Afghanistans solve their own problems. There is an old saying that you get the government you deserve. No more nation-buildidng. Bring our troops home, NOW.

He wants to get the decision "right not fast". Fine for him but not for the troops already there that needed the support months ago. when you are fighting a "war of necessity" it doesn't help to hesitate.

I don't mind the President taking his time and insuring that we do have an exit plan for Afghanistan; that the correct number of troops are sent; that there is a system in place to pay for this war. Unlike the past administration. Perhaps, had President Bush and VP Cheney spent more time "DITHERING" rather than playing cowboy we would not be 8 years into this war with no end in sight.

Please do not dither any longer and you have to make a decision. Our men and women in uniforms need help in Afghanistan to fight terrorists and protect our security.

get out now.... its a no win,,,, get our troops home...

I want President Obama to take his time in making this decision. I prefer my President to think before he acts because the lives of my two sons and that of thousands of American mothers and fathers are at stake. I have had enough of hasty -cowboy-shoot-first-ask-questions-later leadership.

God bless President Obama, and God Bless America!

Draft all republicans and drop them off in Afghanistan since they love war so much.

Why not send 100,000,000 more? After all, we don't have to pay for it, nobody dies, and we can see how well it's worked in Iraq??

Thank you Mr. President, for NOT just throwing more money and troops at the problem. We need to send more troops, but it has to be part of a plan to bring this war to an end, not more years of quagmire!

Behold! the decision on Afghanistan is at hand. What a relief for those troops who had been living in anxiety for the last three months.

No matter what he decides, it is so reassuring to know we've got a president who actually wants FACTS before making a decision instead of making a knee-jerk reaction and doing something stupid like invading a country we're not at war with.

We're stuck in Afghanistan for a while, the same with Iraq, but at least now we have a president who is trying to come up with a plan of, well, a plan. We haven't had that in 8 years.

I think the BIG story here is that obama is actually going to make a decision, his first!

But then again, it hasn't happened yet, but we're hopeful!

His decision to not make a decision until there is a decision about the decision and that he is determined to make a decision.
Where did we find this guy? Who is he?

Those Americans who support this never ending war AND THEIR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS should be just as ready to pay for it as they are to send more kids to die over there. Coongress needs to "pay as you go" on any more wars.

Those who say we cannot afford health care never balk at buying more war!

Yup, probably the wrong one too.

I will continue to pray for our president. He has very difficult decisions to make.