All indications are that President Obama will make a major announcement regarding the Afghan War drawdown on Wednesday, with media outlets putting the overall figure in the realm of 30,000 to 33,000.
This sounds a lot bigger than it is however, as most of the drawdown is backloaded over the next 18 months. Rather, an announcement of 33,000 troops withdrawing from Afghanistan could mean only around 3,000 actually leaving in the near future.
Reports indicate that the administration is looking to about 10,000 troops leaving by the end of 2011, with the rest being scheduled, tentatively, to leave by the end of 2012. The move appears aimed at satisfying Congressmen looking for a significant drawdown while placating military officials warning anything above a trivial move would endanger the decade-long war.
This would largely be in keeping with the president’s history of attempting to satisfy everyone, at least rhetorically, but with polls showing the American public dramatically in favor of a major withdrawal, the real question is if he can convince anyone that a 3-5% cut in overall troop levels is what they really want.
Define "significant drawdown" please. I remember when he did his "significant drawdown" in Iraq which turns out to be shuffling troops around and renaming them so they would appear to be civilians. The warmongers have very few tricks up their sleeves which they recycle ad nauseum. Once you become familiar with them, you can foretell the game before they even open their sewer mouths to spew the prescribed lies.
And how many more people wil be killed before the tough guys who expect parades for beating up 3rd World countries actually GTFO?
The US doesn't even care how many more of their beloved "troops" are killed as they slowly pretend to draw them out.
Whatta sick joke
A 22 year old Marine from California died in Helmand province and became the 30th US death in Afghanistan in the first three weeks of June, 2011. This is also the seventh US soldier to die in Helmand on six separate days this month. The fact that these deaths in Afghanistan are almost completely hidden from any news outlet is beyond comprehension.
“All indications are that President Obama will make a major announcement regarding the Afghan War drawdown on Wednesday, with media outlets putting the overall figure in the realm of 30,000 to 33,000.”
What dose it really mean when Obama drawdown the US troops with that many: Nothing, absolutely nothing.., it saves few dollars here and there and in regard to his political motives (reelection) he once again been playing games with American people. In Afghanistan however, the war is on and a on going killings of innocent Afghani and Pakistani people will continue, if when or ever he would have said that he would order Pentagon to bring about half of the troops home then we could have think that he deserves the Nobel Peace Price.., but wait.., I meant to say two years ago not now when the election is around the corner and his tricking people again.