Saturday, July 04, 2009

Afghanistan: Obama's War

Some voters believed Obama would be for peace. Obama kept Bush's Secretary of Defense, Obama is supporting unConstitutional domestic wiretapping, and Obama is covering up torture. Obama is continuing the Bush policies, so we can accurately call them Obushma.

The Marines are a small force, so for the Marines this is a huge force commitment.

Marines Deploy on Major Mission
Thousands Fan Out in Afghanistan's South in Crucial Test for Revised U.S. Strategy
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 2, 2009

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, July 2 -- Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military's new counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

The operation will involve about 4,000 troops from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, which was dispatched to Afghanistan this year by President Obama ...

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