Exit strategy

He didn't start this war. He's trying to avoid losing it. Bush abandoned Afghanistan to invade Iraq. Afghanistan was supposedly where bin Laden and the most dangerous terrorists were.

 

The President made it clear during his campaign that he would draw down in Iraq and build up in Afghanistan. No surprise there. I fully support this. Afghanistan and the Taliban harbored Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Iraq was Bush's chance to "get the guy who tried to kill my Dad", all while driving up his and Cheney's stock value in Haliburton and Blackwater.

There was no exit strategy talked about for Afghanistan in the short term, so your question is moot.

 

Any evidence to support these assertions? Crying "No it's not", doesn't make it so.

 

Mitch, please try to keep up. It was IRAQ where an exit was wanted and needed. Most libs I know supported the invasion of Afghanistan.

 

Not at all. You have drunk Bush's Kool-Aid about both being the same "War on Turrur". It is not hypocritical at all. We have reason to be in Afghanistan. Not so much in Iraq.

 

Liberals/democrats/leftists do not have a double standard. They have one standard, the leftist standard, which is their gospel.

 

MP

The rarified air in the mile high city is getting to you. I suggest a change is needed.

 

So can you show where the President ever mentioned drawing down in Afghanistan before Iraq?

 

Mitch, I am worried about you. You say it is hypocritical to not withdraw from both, so yes, it is very relevant.

 

There has not been the hue and cry to pull out of Afghanistan...only Iraq. It isn't how long we have been there. I applauded Bush's decision to go into Afghanistan. Iraq was a different matter. I want us out of Iraq, and let's do the job in Afghanistan...although the horse (binLaden) has left the barn already.