Democrats attempting to cut off funding for any additional troops in Afghanistan

by Infidelesto on October 5, 2009 · Comments

Remember the tired old Democrat talking point that we should be “focusing on Afghanistan” instead of Iraq? Well, now that Iraq is pretty much done with, the Dems can drop the politically expedient lie and get back to their anti-war roots.

The Hill

Nearly two dozen House liberals have signed onto a bill introduced this past week that would prohibit an increase of troops in Afghanistan.

A bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Thursday would bar funding to increase the troop level in Afghanistan beyond its current level.

Lee and 21 lawmakers — largely from the liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus — introduced the bill, H.R. 3699 on Thursday.

The legislation comes as President Barack Obama and leaders in Congress weigh a request from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of troops in Afghanistan, for as many as 40,000 new troops to bolster the eight-year-long military engagement in the region.

“History tells us that there will not be a military-first solution to the situation in Afghanistan,” Lee told the Redding News Review. “Open-ended military intervention in Afghanistan is not in our national security interest and will only continue to give resonance to insurgent recruiters painting pictures of foreign occupation to a new generation.”

hattip: ZIP

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  • SirWilhelm
    The liberals are entitled to their opinions on the war just as everyone is, but this action usurps their own party's POTUS's power and functions as CinC. It should be his decision alone that implements our military strategy which ultimately affects the security of us all. As much as I doubt Obama's ability to make the right decision, this principal must be what directs our actions. Our military leaders and Presidents have made mistakes in all our wars, and lead to our defeat in Viet Nam, but with that single exception, we have won all our wars, often when history seemed to teach we would not win. This is the real lesson we should learn from history, that we can write our own history when we make up our mind to do so, and it can be different, and better, than what has come before.
  • joesix_pack
    President Obama wants to 'fundamentally' change America. Capitalism takes advantage of people. The government can run things much more effectively and 'fairly'. He believes that war is bad. (As do most of us) However, the root cause of the war today is actually our past actions in the area combined with our support of Israel.

    President Obama ran and was elected on a platform of 'change'. He intends to do just that.

    The hard part for me to swallow is that he will probably be successful. President Carter had also run on a platform of change and was also successful. The problem with President Carter was that the changes were not good for our country, nor were they very popular.
  • scottklesper
    why us the president being so evasive and slow at not only the afghan war but everything he is doing?
    This is a man and administration who are so arrogant and indecisive unless it lines their own pockets.
    wake up, smell whats in the white house, it sure ain't coffee. The lack of progress and the road they are taking us down is causing more destruction than anyone could have imagined. Everything is getting worse not better, look around become part of the real world out here again. We need to oust everyone in our government and start over with the founding basics we were all given. This man has not cleaned up anything, he's made it worse. If he can find so much waste and save so much money and eliminate so much waste then why is he not working on that full time so that the things he thinks should be changed can be changed. Why are we changing entire systems instead of just fixing the problem area's?
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