Congressional Candidate Robert Dobbs Responds to Afghanistan President Karzai’s 15 to 20 Years

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December 8, 2009
Contact: Robert Dobbs
920-246-4455
www.electdobbs.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Congressional Candidate Robert Dobbs Responds to Afghanistan President Karzai’s Statement on 15 to 20 years More of U.S. Military Support.

Georgetown, SC - Congressional candidate Robert Dobbs (SC-1, D) calls on Representative Henry Brown to vote against any war supplemental bill to fund a surge in Afghanistan.

Robert Dobbs stated, “I feel the American people are not being told the truth on Afghanistan by the Administration, the Secretary of Defense, and General McChrystal. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said it would take 5 years for his forces to assume responsibility for security throughout the country and he said it would be 15 to 20 years before Afghan forces can operate without heavy U.S. financial and technical help. This not what General McChrystal, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, nor the President stated as the intent for the troop surge.”

The U.S. involvement is projected to cost an additional $30 billion a year and expectations of long-term American involvement in Afghanistan are based in part on the cost of battling the Afghanistan's insurgency.

Dobbs states, “As we consider the condition our economy is in, the number of dead and wounded troops in Afghanistan, the number of civilian casualties, and the likelihood that the Afghanistan conflict could be become a quagmire far worse than Iraq, it is clear that Congress must assert its authority over the President on sending 30,000 more troops at an additional cost of $30 billion. It has also come to light that U.S. Contractors are paying bribes to the Taliban with U.S. Taxpayers dollars in order to delivery military shipments. Why are we paying the Taliban in order to fight them, this is insanity! The War in Afghanistan needs to end now!”

In an investigative expose, The Nation magazine revealed “how the U.S. funds the Taliban” and “with pentagon cash, contractors bribe the insurgents not to attack supply for U.S. troops.”

Robert Dobbs, a veteran of the U.S. Army, is running for Congress in South Carolina’s First District.

http://www.electdobbs.com

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1. The Nation Article: "How the US Funds the Taliban"

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

[ima_sinnic]

2. k&r for the truth, and for a Democrat with the principles to say it and do something about it (nt)