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Why did not hear about what this admiral is saying to Congress? ABC News is reporting: ‘Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US

Last week, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress “we’re running out of time” in Afghanistan. “I’m not convinced we’re winning it in Afghanistan,” Adm. Mullen testified.

Perhaps foreshadowing the NIE assessment on Afghanistan, Adm. Mullen told Congress, “absent a broader international and interagency approach to the problems there, it is my professional opinion that no amount of troops in no amount of time can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan.”

And in the same article:

Seth Jones, an expert on Afghanistan at the Rand Corporation think tank, called the situation in Afghanistan “dire.”

“We are now at a tipping point, with about half of the country now penetrated by a range of Sunni militant groups including the Taliban and al Queida,” Jones said. Jones said there is growing concern that Dutch and Canadian forces in Afghanistan would “call it quits.”

“The US military would then need six, eight, maybe ten brigades but we just don’t have that many,” Jones said.

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Have you seen the sight McCainSings.com? Here is a YouTube clip of John McCain singing.

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All Palin would need to do is exchange God for Allah and she would sound like another extremist. Wait a minute, she sounds like one and is an extremist!!! A Christian extremist.

On CNN: Pastor: GOP may be downplaying Palin’s religious beliefs

Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says on the video, “Pray for our military men and women who are striving do to what is right. Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for — that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.”

Yeah right!!! I am sure it was in God’s plan for that piece of sh*t Bush to lie to the American people and the rest of the world before he attacked Iraq. For some reason I don’t think God approved of Bush’s lies.

Why do we only hear about Palin and not McCain?? Isn’t McCain the one who is running for president? Looks like another re”thug”lican smoke and mirrors scam to keep the American public from looking at the issues. They sure are good at selling fear and religion. When is the American people going to stop buying into this?

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One year ago today, I was eating my lunch and getting ready to leave for work. On CNN it was reported a helicopter went down in northern Iraq and all the soldiers on board were killed. That was the operational area my son was in and my heart sunk.

I headed to work and tried not to think about what happened, but it was hard. In a break room the NBC news reported the helicopter crash and said it was part of Task Force Lighting, which was the task force my son belong to. In my office I launched my IM program and kept it on waiting to see if my son would get online, but he did not. I went home from work that evening turned on my computer to see if he was online yet and he wasn’t. I turned the volume up loud, so if he did come on I would hear it when he pinged me.

I slept in my computer room that evening waiting to hear from him and by morning there was still no word. It is hard waiting to hear if your son has been killed or possibly spared and makes for a long day. About 11am my computer came alive with a ring tone. I went to the screen and could see there was a message from son, “i’m alive.”

I was so relived and overjoyed to hear from him, yet I was so sad for the families who were also waiting to hear from their loved one who never would again. My son said it was a long day and he had been assigned to extricate the bodies and collect the belongings of his friends who where killed the helicopter. As he told me some of the details there would be long breaks in the messages and he would come back and repeatedly say, “it was a long day.” My son was heart broken to see his friends lives end in such a way.

One year ago today these men from the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, lost their lives in Iraq.

Capt. Derek A. Dobogai, 26, of Fond du Lac, Wis.

Staff Sgt. Jason L. Paton, 25, of Poway, Calif.

Sgt. Garrett I. McLead, 23, of Rockport, Texas.

Cpl. Jeremy P. Bouffard, 21, of Middlefield, Mass.

Cpl. Phillip J. Brodnick, 25, of New Lenox, Ill.

Cpl. Joshua S. Harmon, 20, of Mentor, Ohio.

Cpl. Nathan C. Hubbard, 21, of Clovis, Calif.

Spc. Michael A. Hook, 25, of Altoona, Penn.

Spc. Jessy G. Pollard, 22, of Springfield, Mo.

Spc. Tyler R. Seideman, 20, of Lincoln, Ark.

WOW!!! I heard on one of the news networks that one week into the month and no American soldiers were killed in Iraq.

According to the web site Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, Americans who died this month:

• 29 died in Iraq
• 27 died in Afghanistan

Bringing the total amount of American soldiers who died in Iraq to 4113 and in Afghanistan to 541.

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