Obama saving American lives, money

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President Obama is expected to outline a plan today that will begin bringing thousands of United States troops home.







U.S. troops in Afghanistan could be home as soon as July.










http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=294745&cID=1
 
On Monday, the United States Conference of Mayors made that connection explicitly, saying that American taxes should be paying for bridges in Baltimore and Kansas City, not in Baghdad and Kandahar.




The mayors’ group approved a resolution calling for an early end to the American military role in Afghanistan and Iraq, asking Congress to redirect the billions now being spent on war and reconstruction costs toward urgent domestic needs. The resolution, which explicitly noted that local governments cut 28,000 jobs in May alone, was the group’s first venture into foreign policy since it passed a resolution four decades ago calling for an end to the Vietnam War.




And in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, said: “We can no longer, in good conscience, cut services and programs at home, raise taxes or — and this is very important — lift the debt ceiling in order to fund nation-building in Afghanistan. The question the president faces — we all face — is quite simple: Will we choose to rebuild America or Afghanistan? In light of our nation’s fiscal peril, we cannot do both.”








http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22costs.html?_r=1
 
Some U.S. officials are voicing increasing concern about the burgeoning cost of American military involvement in simultaneous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya.




By various government and private accounts, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion over the last decade on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and already more than $700 million in the three-month-old NATO airwar against troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.



President Barack Obama is preparing to announce U.S. troop withdrawals from the war front in Afghanistan in a televised address Wednesday night, and the U.S. involvement in Iraq is winding down this year. Some Americans, though, weary of a decade of warfare spawned by the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., are saying that with the sluggish national economy, the money spent on the wars instead should be spent on domestic needs.










http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Slack-Economy-for-US-but-Growing-War-Costs-124350374.html
 
Who gives a fuck what Afghans think? Are they paying for US protection? They're corrupt and have wasted our taxpayer dollars, and helped the Taliban.






The President is putting the final touches on an evening address in which he is expected to announce that 10,000 U.S. troops will come home from Afghanistan this year.

U.S. diplomats have been informed of the pace of the planned drawdown, which is likely to remove 33,000 troops, the full number of the troop "surge" Obama ordered in 2009, by the end of next summer.






http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-afghanistan-20110622,0,6549067.story






Here are the people who can truly appreciate what their Commander-in-Chief is doing...chickenhawks need not apply.



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Obama got Osama. It's time to bring the troops home.
 
President Barack Obama plans to pull 33,000 U.S. troops out of Afghanistan well before next year's election, signaling a rapid drawdown to the country's longest war sure to please war-weary and debt-strapped Americans.






The quick drawdown reflects growing public pressure to get out of Afghanistan and to stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars on faraway conflict at a time the U.S. government is grappling with soaring deficits.






http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/22/2279780/obama-lays-out-plan-for-afghanistan.html#ixzz1Q3MocpER








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