Military growing impatient with Obama on Afghanistan

Our troops are facing death everyday while Obama games this war!

The issue is simple: send more troops to help our over stretched troops in Afghanistan, or pull everyone out ASAP!

The war is unwinnable no matter what we do, although some military leaders (not in the UK) think they can win this.

Posted originally by st8grad93 in LBN:

Military growing impatient with Obama on Afghanistan

By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Six months after it announced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Obama administration is sending mixed signals about its objectives there and how many troops are needed to achieve them.

The conflicting messages are drawing increasing ire from U.S. commanders in Afghanistan and frustrating military leaders, who're trying to figure out how to demonstrate that they're making progress in the 12-18 months that the administration has given them.

Adding to the frustration, according to officials in Kabul and Washington, are White House and Pentagon directives made over the last six weeks that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, not submit his request for as many as 45,000 additional troops because the administration isn't ready for it.

In the last two weeks, top administration leaders have suggested that more American troops will be sent to Afghanistan, and then called that suggestion "premature." Earlier this month, Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that "time is not on our side"; on Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates urged the public "to take a deep breath."

The White House didn't respond to requests for comment. Officials willing to speak did so only on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.

In Kabul, some members of McChrystal's staff said they don't understand why Obama called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" but still hasn't given them the resources they need to turn things around quickly.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/75702.html

Anonymous sources.

And I don't do anonymous sources.

Our troops are dying and suffering waiting for reinforcements while Obama diddle daddles on a war that he himself called "a war of necessity."

Stop playing with the lives of our troops. It's time to either fish or cut bait in Afghanistan. Send reinforcements needed or pull everyone out.

Past time, imo...which is probably what you meant. I agree. Either go in with massive force and achieve our objectives or bring 'em if the Bush Administration screwed up so bad that the war is unwinnable.

out our previous president for sending them there in the first place. They had many years to yell about it but they just listened to the "compassionate conservative" they had to salute as commander in chief. They also put Karzi in as some sort of leader and he bargains with the Taliban and secretly works with Pakistan. I want them out also but I will not get on the bandwagon now when it could have been settled in the last administration. Everyone seems to want Obama to do everything right now or yesterday.