Obama's Military Math

Promises, promises.  We need to listen to our politicians more closely prior to elections.

A story in the newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot, this morning stated that troop strength in Afghanistan will soon increast to over 130,000 troops and likely twice that many will be needed in the future.

So, President Obama is pulling our troops out of Iraq and sending them home, just as he promised. How nice.  Then he will turn them around to send them to fight in Afghanistan.  But he kept his promise, you betcha!  I don't think that's what your supporters had in mind, Mr. President.  That's kind of like promising my wife I won't buy the $35,000 Chevy we'd been discussing, and then I go out and buy a $35,000 Ford.  Isn't presidential math wonderful.  It enables an administration to lie and to tell the truth simultaneously. 

We continue to be duped; we continue to follow flawed party lines, and until we, the people, start really thinking and investigating and demanding more from our leaders, we will contine along this long, slow, steady trail to disaster.  We are a nation of apathetic, pathetic people who revel in being duped; we love to listen to what politicians know we want to hear.  We know it's streams of continuing lies, irrespective of party affiliations, yet we revel in the lies pretending they are true.  It feels good to do so.  We will kill our nation in absolute comfort.

Guess I'll research some Chinese language courses.  They may come in handy soon.  I could become a translator for our new political lords.

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