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Obama and McCain turn focus toward Afghanistan

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John McCain and Barack Obama are turning their foreign policy focus toward the war in Afghanistan, as new poll results show Americans consider that battleground more critical to the overall war on terror than Iraq.

The presidential contenders gave back-to-back addresses Tuesday on national security and foreign policy. Obama restated his pledge to end the Iraq war by the summer of 2010, while McCain and his surrogates accused Obama of wanting to concede defeat.

But both candidates devoted much of their speeches to staking out their strategies for Afghanistan, where violence is on the rise.

Obama and McCain both said they would send more brigades to Afghanistan as troops are removed from Iraq — but they differed over the details and over how they would pursue terrorists operating next door in Pakistan.

Offering fresh criticism of Afghanistan, McCain told reporters Tuesday that there is serious corruption in the Afghanistan government and that President Hamid Karzai has not been the leader he would have hoped.

Obama said he, too, would send at least two more brigades to Afghanistan, but said the Iraq war, which he called a distraction, has prevented the United States from making progress in the region. He said in the 18 months since the troop surge in Iraq began, “the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated — June was our highest casualty month of the war.”
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12 responses // Obama and McCain turn focus toward Afghanistan

  • How about focusing on the terrorism IN the United States?
    Like the terrorism of not having universal healthcare, the terrorism of homelessness, the terrorism of every child left behind, the terrorism of our environment, the terrorism of un-affordable transportation/non-existant public trans in most areas, the terrorism of underpaid, overworked teachers, the terrorism of advertising and entertainment pawned off as "news", the terrorism of a corrupt racist prison system, the terrorism of the "war on drugs", the terrorism of a nation of hate and FEARMONGERING...

    How about we start there and fix that first, then fix all those things in other countries, and WE WON'T HAVE TERRORISM ANYMORE MUCH LESS A WAR TO "WIN".
    onechance
  • http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Money-Print-C10055084....
    Why won't we fix things here, and stop war over there?

    Money~

    Greed~

    Same ole, Same ole, politics, rhetoric, pandering, spinning.

    Also, most Americans are not willing to do anything but vote the same thing back in that we have had before.

    Oh and did I mention Money? (but not for us)~

    sigh~
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    queenofit
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  • I think it obvious the war sucks, and we have so much going on here in the US that needs attention...

    Our leaders have simply been low life's with lies and cheating their way to where they are...

    BUT the question is WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ????

    SOLUTIONS PLEASE !!!!!!!!!
    TheCocoon
  • Solutions:

    1. VOTE
    2. Sign up for this: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/j...
    3. Do you part for the environment because it's obvious that these politcal hacks won't (recycle/compost/bring canvas bags to the store/use a waterfilter instead of poison plastic bottles/drive less or not at all/ditch the 1971 hotrod/etc etc etc)
    4. Never hate. Care for others and it will come back, thus, no more war... who knows.
    5. sign up to volunteer at: http://www.oxfam.org/en/getinvolved so LAWS can be changed... LONG TERM ACTION is required.

    There's PLENTY more, but those are just a few off the top of my tired head.

    Good luck, hope to see you on the street, doing the good work.
    onechance
  • Another solution I'd add, onechance: Stop spending billions occupying another country and spend that money domestically.

    I watched the movie "Stop-loss" last night. I recommend.
    Amber_LaStrega
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  • Oh, and, if you can donate to Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, ACLU, and other similar organizations. Lord knows the powers that be won't ... hell, if each of us donated as little as a dollar, it'd add up.
    Amber_LaStrega
  • A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the first four months of this year, up 33 percent from 1.2 million barrels a day over the same period in 2007. Shipments this February topped 1.8 million barrels a day for the first time during any month, according to final numbers from the Energy Department.

    The surge in exports appears to contradict the pleas from the U.S. oil industry and the Bush administration for Congress to open more offshore waters and Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.


    From the article posted by AbstractArtist above. This is very upsetting to hear that US Oil companies are shipping out 1.6 Million Barrels a day of refined oil products is unconscionable when they are complaining so much about not having enough places to drill. They tell us that the prices of gas are dictated by the market, but what they aren't telling us is this; the fact that a big part of the reason is that they are raking in even bigger profits from exporting the refined product.

    This is truly sick.
    jubal
  • And sick that, amidst the lies about "dictated by the market," they're willing (eager even?) to destroy habitat to pad their pockets.

    Sick indeed.
    Amber_LaStrega

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