<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yeah, I HATED that sentence for two reasons: One: shouldn't we all be obsessed with peace??? Second, is that "success" and US "interests" always seem to be connected... with every "s" standing for a $.<div> --Jenifer<br><div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 6/28/10, unionyes <i><unionyes@ameritech.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: unionyes <unionyes@ameritech.net><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: Obama Slams ‘Obsession’ With Ending War in Afghanistan<br>To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 10:26 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1332653820">
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<h4 id="pagesub">Insists His Focus Is on Winning the War</h4>
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<div>Speaking today in the wake of the G20 Summit, President Barack <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/06/27/obama-cites-obsession-on-afghanistan-timeline/"><font color="#990000">Obama criticized what he called “a lot of obsession”</font></a>
about ending the war in Afghanistan and withdrawing some 100,000 American troops
from the nation.</div>
<div><img alt="" hspace="10" align="right" vspace="10">Obama insisted that instead of considering if and how the
war will ever come to some sort of end, his “<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/06/obama-live-from-toronto-1-2/1"><font color="#990000">focus right now is how do we make sure that what we’re doing there
is successful, given the incredible sacrifices</font></a>.”</div>
<div>The US initially invaded Afghanistan in late 2001. The number of troops in
the nation has rising precipitously since President Obama took office in 2009,
inheriting a war with 30,000 troops and turning it into a war with 100,000
troops.</div>
<div>Obama’s comments reflect those he made earlier this week, <a rel="nofollow"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from ".." claiming to be</b></font> <font color="#990000">disavowing his pledge to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
in July of 2011</font></a>. Now President Obama says that date is just the
“beginning of a transition phase” and there is no particular timeline for
leaving Afghanistan.</div>
<div>With the war increasingly unpopular, the <a rel="nofollow"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from ".." claiming to be</b></font> <font color="#990000">president presented the 2011 drawdown date as a way to make his
most recent escalation more palatable</font></a>. With the surge troops now
deployed, the date appears to have been discarded, and those still clamoring for
some sort of end to the nearly decade-long war condemned for losing sight of
some ill-defined victory.</div></div></div></font><br>--
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