(Reuters) - The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, is leading a delegation of Republican lawmakers on a trip to Afghanistan to underscore their call for U.S. forces to remain there and also to review the country's presidential election, Boehner's office said on Monday.
Boehner and seven other House Republicans met with U.S. troops, the U.S. ambassador and the commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan during the two-day visit that began on Sunday.
The April 5 vote is meant to usher in Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power as President Hamid Karzai steps down after 12 years and Western forces prepare to depart after more than a decade of war.
Democratic President Barack Obama plans to withdraw most, or possibly all, U.S. forces from Afghanistan this year, winding down a conflict that began following the September 11, 2001, attacks. Obama would like to leave about 8,000 troops to train Afghan forces and for a counter-terrorism mission. Karzai, however, has declined to sign an agreement allowing this.
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Why don't the politicians stay in Afg--.?? Good riddance, I say.
ReplyDeleteRotate POLITICIANS into Afghanistan. At the pay rate of a soldier.
ReplyDeleteThe "war" would stop instantly. But so would the profits of the war machine in the USA.
There goes that idea.
Keep cheering. And don't forget to be REALLY REALLY afraid when those same politicians tell us about "terrorists" around every corner. Maybe they can work "it for the CHILDREN, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!" into the propaganda, too.
Hang every single one of them in public. On TV, too.
Just what do you think is going to happen when our debt hits 25-30 TRILLION? The rest of the world will just yawn and go on about their business? Think again.
ReplyDeleteWorldwide economic chaos and collapse.
Then wars, civil wars, & revolution.
If WE ran our businesses or households like they run the government, WE would be in prison. PRISON!! THEY run for re-election. YOU, of course,
Keep cheering....
Convert the war machine to US infrastructure rebuilding after our departure from Afghanistan.
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