White House Authorized 13,000 Support Troops for Afghanistan

shame on Obama... 17 died last week waiting for him to decide (since August) to send more troops.. now he sends in 13,000 when they need 40,000?? get them out, there is no reason to be there!!!

so he's sending 13,000 more TARGETS to Afghanistan, but holding back on the combat troopers who could better protect them by taking out the enemy! What a Commander-in-Chief. Comfortable with our new "decider"? I'm not!

Somber
9:30AM Oct 13th 2009
There are reasons to be there. Just as there are reasons to take them out. The taking once course of action won't eliminate the other set of reasons.

For instance, we're there because the people perpetuating an ideology of aggressive theologically backed terrorism are still very alive and very active. They have made it quite clear that there is no appeasement possible and no quarter allowed. They've also destabilized nuclear armed Pakistan and killed hundreds of civilians there. Us leaving will not change that. It will only allow the Taliban to recapture Afghanistan and butcher any and everyone who dared to work with us. Women will be targeted particularly hard as many women have had the first freedoms of their lives in decades.

Personally, I'm not so sure this is a good idea to send support troops without military troops to protect them. Support is needed, desperately, but without more of the country secure they're soft targets. I think this sends a signal though. Obama is going to fight it out. He's not going to go silently into the night. Now to see if that's going to be a worth while choice.

Sorry, but IF Obama was going to "fight it out" he'd be fighting. Not limiting additional troops to support troops. Doctors, engineers and military police don't win a war, they don't even FIGHT a war. They are what it says "SUPPORT TROOPS". Fighting soldiera and bombs win wars. When he sends those I'll believe he's going to fight it out and not abandon my son and those like him.

there playing games again like nam i was there and we never got the troops we needed either 13000 is not 40000 and if the general asked for 40000 we should send 50000 and finish this game once and for all

Putting only 13,000 more troops into Afghanistan is like putting a bandaid on a gaping chest wound.

Why is it that Obama 100% of the time shorts everybody but himself. What a selfish pig.

This is typical of a Democratic administration. Remember our troops in Somilia wanted armor but the Clinton administration knew better. Blackhawk down! LBJ knew more about military tactics than all the Generals combined! Tet 1968. Never fear, President Obama has Joe Biden advising him!!! As usual, our Men and now our women in the military will pay the price.

Unleash the dog and let's either fight or cut off all imports and exports untill they realize negotiations.I feel the mothers of the world are about to step up and make the piss poor example of a man do something. He has shown is so many ways he is NOT in the best interests of our constitution., nor or his surrounding advisors, there has always been corruption, but not entangled with some liberal terrorists.

Just enough troops to avoid blame, nowhere near what the PROFESSIONALS requested. What a P.O.S.

This is another totaly useless and ignorant waste og lives and billions of more dollars.This is a no win scenario and we cannot win any type of a war there now especially after Obooboo sent in thousands when he said he wouldbt if elected.All he maneged to do was to scatter the ones we were hunting into areas like the larger citie's where we can't locate them now so our best bet is to pull out of their completely and cut our losses

Obama does it again. A slap in the face of America. A slap in the face of our military. What a shameful president. If this isn't the bases for impeachment I don't know what is. Is this not aiding and abetting the enemy? Who's side is he really on? We have now seen the enemy. And it is one of our own.

It's called "escalation". Lyndon Johnson was good at it. But, what the hey; he had an industrial & manufacturing base to feed on. What has Obama got? More credit from China? What a fool.

VIETNAM GHOSTS, here we come.

Americans, have you seen enough yet!? This administration is DANGEROUS for America, if you can't figure that out after the first 9 months plus of Obama's presidency then you indeed have no clue to what being an American is all about! Freedom! When a president and his croonies attack a media outlet and calls them "the opponent", Especially when polls show that FOX News is watched by the most balanced audience of viewers, meaning the most even mix of Republicans, Democrats, Independants etc, etc. than any other major media outlet and FOX has DOUBLE the viewers of ALL the other media outlets combined, it is almost like our beloved Pres. Obama and his croonie administration are attacking the majority of the American people! Like they are campaigning against Fox news and their viewers! It should really be a clear "DANGER" sign to us. When a President is asked for 68 thousand troops, to doubleup; from on the ground commanders and our "beloved" Obama gives them 13,000 as a "support" role, well that is a clear "DANGER" sign and will definately cause the needless death of more American soldiers, Thank you Pres. Obama! Reminds me of Somalia when Pres. Clinton tried to do it "On the Cheap" by not sending Armor, until there were naked, dead American bodies being mutilated in the streets on CNN, then Clinton got the message and spent the money! Same thing here to me, but with the potential to be much worse! The pieces are being implanted for America to become some facist, dictatorship! Paranoia you say, well, In Obama's first month he said he wants to get rid of Presidency Term limits! But not for Him! Hmm, could it be they already have the next one lined up!? I'd say "YES"! Why would Americans want unlimited terms? Our whole system is set up to avoid that and therefore avoid, you guessed it, a dictatorship taking over America! Hmmmm, Castro and Kim comes to mind when you talk like that Pres. Obama! Goverment "Free" healthcare that the major majority doesn't want! Yes, just one more nail in the coffin! This indeed is a Dangerous administration that could, if left to do as they please; "CHANGE" America in a way that NOT ONE AMERICAN will be happy with and prosper from! Think of Sheep and the Sheep herder! Pres. Obama and his admin. want to be the herder and guess who the sheep are!?

AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!