Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase - AP

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Hopefully, they'll cut off funding for any more troops to waste in a lost war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_go_co/us_us_afghanistan_22

WASHINGTON – Key Senate Democrats signaled Friday that any push by President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan is likely to hit resistance on Capitol Hill, deepening a growing political divide on the war even within his own party.

Speaking just days after Obama's defense chief suggested a willingness to consider increasing troops in Afghanistan, Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Friday that the U.S. must focus more on building the Afghan security forces. His cautionary stance was echoed by Sen. Jack Reed, who is also on the committee and spent two days in Afghanistan this week with Levin.

The senators will return to Washington next week, just as Obama receives a new military review of Afghanistan strategy that officials expect will be followed up by a request for at least a modest increase in U.S. troops battling insurgents in the eight-year-old war.

Obama came into office pledging to shift U.S. focus from the war in Iraq to the Afhgan fight, which had long been a secondary priority. But as war-weary Americans have watched another 21,000 troops go to Afghanistan, and U.S. casualties rise, support for the war has waned.

[ShortnFiery]

1. 57% of Americans do NOT want us to keep occupying Afghanistan.

It's time to make like a sheep herder and get the FLOCK out of that narco-state.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Like the resistance in an electrical circuit?

...which generates heat but doesn't stop the flow?

[babylonsister]

3. Good. nt

[Creena]

4. Hopefully, the Dems will grow a pair in general.

We are wasting money fighting a pointless war. Thom Hartmann made the comment on his radio show today that this administration will hurt itself by placing so many resources into a war we cannot win.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Rec