[Peace-discuss] Obama favours U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Correct. No matter what he says, pull the lever or fill in the blank for him (because the alternative is unthinkable). And keep on marching, and protesting... AND keep on phoning or emailing him to let him know how you feel! Really -- and realistically -- what other choice do you/we have?
 
 --Jenifer

--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Tom Abram <tabram at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Tom Abram <tabram at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama favours U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com, "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana..net>, republican-637 at meetup.com, "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 10:25 PM

And if he says he understands your concern, but this is the right move
for America, nod your head, pull the lever for him, and continue to
enable him and his hawkish policies.  Where's the accountability in
the process?  At what point does disatisfaction with his stances turn
into an active disapproval?

Tom

On 10/24/08, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tell Obama how you feel about this!   http://obama.senate.gov/contact/
>  --Jenifer
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> --- On Fri, 10/24/08, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
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> From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama favours U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan
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<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>,
> republican-637 at meetup.com
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:44 PM
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081022.wcampaign_speech23/BNStory/Afghanistan/
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> WASHINGTON — Sounding presidential, Senator Barack Obama said Wednesday
he
> would order a surge of U.S. troops – perhaps 15,000 or more – to
Afghanistan
> as soon as he reached the White House.
> "We're confronting an urgent crisis in Afghanistan," Mr.
Obama, the
> Democratic contender and now clear front-runner to replace George W. Bush,
> said Wednesday.
> "It's time to heed the call … for more troops. That's why
I'd send at least
> two or three additional brigades to Afghanistan," he said in his most
> hawkish promise to date.
> A U.S. army brigade includes about 5,000 soldiers along with tanks,
armoured
> personnel carriers and helicopter gunships.
> Seeking to deflect attacks that he is dangerously inexperienced in foreign
> policy, Mr. Obama huddled with a high-profile panel of experts before a
news
> conference aimed at showcasing his command of global affairs.
> "The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large and
plotting," he
> said, echoing Mr. Bush's oft-repeated refrain.
> But he was quick to blame Mr. Bush for miring the United States in a
> pointless war and wrecking its reputation abroad.
> "We must be vigilant in preventing future attacks, he said.
"We're fighting
> two wars abroad [and] we're facing a range of 21st-century threats
from
> terrorism to nuclear proliferation to our dependence on foreign oil, which
> have grown more daunting because of the failed policies of the last eight
> years."
> Mr. Obama, speaking in Virginia, a once-solidly Republican state that now
> could swing Democratic, warned that his rival, John McCain, a decorated
> former naval officer and combat pilot who endured years of torture as a
> prisoner of war, would lead America into more danger if he becomes
> president.
> "Senator McCain has supported the key decisions and core approaches
of
> President Bush. As president, he would continue the policies that have put
> our economy into crisis and, I believe, endangered our national
security."
> As the deepening economic crisis has all but eclipsed other issues in the
> final few weeks of the campaign, Mr. McCain has repeatedly tried to shift
> the debate and portray Mr. Obama as unready to cope with foreign
challenges.
> Earlier this week Joe Biden, the Democrat vice-presidential candidate,
> predicted that unspecified foreign adversaries would attempt to challenge
an
> inexperienced young president, just as the Cuban Missile Crisis tested
> president John F. Kennedy in 1962, but claimed Mr. Obama would rise to the
> occasion.
> That assurance prompted a new jibe from Mr. McCain: "I know how close
we
> came to a nuclear war and I will not be a president that needs to be
> tested.. I have been tested, Senator Obama has not."
> Mr. Obama, at 47, is nearly a quarter-century younger than Mr. McCain and
> was a toddler in Hawaii during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
> While Republicans paint Mr. Obama as dangerously naive, the first-term
> senator from Illinois has shot back by saying Mr. McCain is just
> wrong-headed
> "We can't afford another president who ignores the fundamentals
of our
> economy while running up record deficits to fight a war without end in
> Iraq," Mr. Obama said Wednesday.
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