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Originally Posted by lotusforsale
No, that is not what he's saying, or at least not what he means.
Arguments pro or con to the contrary, barring an invasion on our shores or another world war, there is no going back on the draft. That toothpaste is out of the tube. The same can be said for the abortion issue. There simply is no going back.
What Obama IS saying is anything that will get him elected, that he will not be held accountable for later. As is typical of all politicians.
What we DO know though, is as he is telling people he will end the war in Iraq, is that people that want to hear that stop listening at that point. Listening further, you hear that he doesn't say he's bringing the troops home, he's saying he'll put them in Afghanistan. Which, by the way, is where more US troops died over the summer than in Iraq.
His policy is not to end the war, simply move it a few hundred/thousand miles.
But that's not what people are hearing.
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He is pulling our troops out of a region where we shouldn't have gone in the first place, and putting them where they should have been all along.
I personally think that we shouldn't have a ground war in Afghanistan, but rather use smart bombs and spec ops to assassinate Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders. Without proper leadership they can not wage a real war against US interests, and being in their back yard only fans the flames of American hatred.