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Obama Tells Afghanistan "If You Like The US Troops In Your Country, You Can Keep 9800 Of Them" - Live Feed

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Via CNN,

President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday that the United States plans to keep just under 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after this year, if the Afghan government signs a security agreement.

A senior administration official said that number would be cut by roughly half by the end of 2015, and the military would then transition to a smaller force built around embassy security operations at the end of the following year.There currently are 32,000 American forces in Afghanistan, where the United States has fought its longest war.

Both presidential candidates in Afghanistan have indicated a willingness to sign the security agreement, if elected. However, the official said the United States would maintain no military presence after this year if for some reason that doesn't happen.

 

 

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Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:52 | 4799125 Hippocratic Oaf
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THEY don't want US there!!!

PERIOD

WTF does this doofus have to add to anything?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:53 | 4799131 Stackers
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Mission Accomplished !

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:58 | 4799153 power steering
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Hasn't even caught that insolent rodeo clown yet!

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:01 | 4799172 CrashisOptimistic
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The Russians must have granted permission for that many to remain.

It's their call. They control the supply lines.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:05 | 4799187 power steering
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It the least they could do for us taking down the missle shield

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:20 | 4799242 Sofa King Confused
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The reason Afganistan does not sign the security agreement is they want the US out of their country.  Obama needs them to sign it so he can keep troops in there.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:47 | 4799572 0b1knob
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The problem with the 'stan is that it is run by a mentally ill narcissistic idiot traitor who seems intent on sabotaging and destroying the country he rules.

Unlike the US which is... oh wait....

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:39 | 4799334 HungryPorkChop
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"If you like the US Troops in your country, you can keep 9800 of them"

This one sounds eerily similar to:

"If you like your insurance policy, you can keep your insurance policy."

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:57 | 4799148 Winston of Oceania
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The poppy growers are happy as can be that we are there; wtf do you think it was all about?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:07 | 4799162 power steering
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Nope. It was about that insultung YouTube video. That guys still in jail?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 18:34 | 4799888 Rusty Shorts
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 18:52 | 4799931 DaveyJones
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our country would never assist a criminal venture

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:07 | 4799193 TideFighter
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9700 drone pilots...a few cooks and a motor pool. 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:32 | 4799506 RafterManFMJ
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Read up about the US Embassy in Kabul - spending over 500 million to upgrade and expand it...

...new embassy in London was projected to be over 1 billion dollars last I heard.

I guess you'd better spend like a drunken sailor when you know it's only a matter of time until Uncle Wen cuts up your credit cards.

Wed, 05/28/2014 - 01:43 | 4800953 COSMOS
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LOL so true.  Spend spend spend while you can.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:07 | 4799195 drendebe10
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More BD gim flapping from yhe incompeyent arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan muslim sociopathic ignoramus liar in chief.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:11 | 4799206 TideFighter
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you forgot fudgepacker

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:12 | 4799214 power steering
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Hallmark of the choom gang

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:36 | 4799522 Richardk888
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The reason so many around the world hate us...we kill their countrymen and occupy their land.

Too bad neither political party or the sheeple poeple have figured this out yet.

Wed, 05/28/2014 - 09:43 | 4801528 thestarl
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Worst part about it is your only wasting your time trying to explain it to them.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:08 | 4799127 Freedumb
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They'll be fine, we're recording all of their phone calls for their own safety, and we've bombed them into a democracy (mission accomplished)

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:52 | 4799128 Number 156
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If you look closely, you can almost see the puppet strings..

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:13 | 4799217 Chupacabra-322
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Look closer, you can see the massive cock in his mouth & ass.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:52 | 4799129 codecode
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So... what is it we accomplished there?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:01 | 4799173 Raynja
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The longest US war

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:38 | 4799330 SAT 800
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Same as always; undeserved promotions for idiot officers. body bags, a destroyed country, a black hole to flush dollars into; some of which get stuck in the private offshore accounts of the pentagon desk jockys. And now it's on to the real fun ! Russia !! lucky thing I;m so old, I was gonna die soon anyway.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:54 | 4799132 Zirpedge
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9800 troops is hardly enough to secure the poppy fields. How else will we demoralize and poison the disenfranchised youth of tommorow? Can we keep sending cargo planes full of USD to pay off taliban warlords?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:00 | 4799167 john39
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of course this number does not include private contractors aka mercenaries...   paid for by debt serfs, er citizens.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:53 | 4799136 youngman
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9800 and now he will say we are out of the country....zero does not know what ZERO means

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:55 | 4799143 bigsheep66
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Bring em home to start the final step in the transformational change

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:56 | 4799144 SharkBit
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Why has Afganistan all of the sudden become front and center.  Think distraction.  Hum.  VA issues.  ObummerCare.  Holy-Grail deal.  Failed Foreign Policy in Ukraine.  Economy bubbles.  Buying time for Fed....  Guy hurts my ears.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:01 | 4799174 power steering
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You really think he's gonna keep talking about Benghazi, IRS, VA, Fast & Furious ?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:24 | 4799263 SAT 800
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I noticed that ultimately we'll only have a small force in country for embassy guarding; lucky thing we didn't need any embassy guarding in Benghazi. Lying, fucking, cunthole.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:56 | 4799149 Jugdish
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So did we win the war? Who controls the poppy fields? Is there a bearded jihadi hiding under my bed still? Whats the threat level at ? is the TSA still hiring Pedophiles and thugs? Who watches me while I watch porn and talk to grandma on the phone? Is the boogie man real ? Are there any trannies serving in the 9,800 force ? Are gay men and women better soldiers? Is Hillary going to bail us out of this mess that Obama inherited ?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:01 | 4799168 RacerX
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it sounds like we "won" the war. And will continue "winning" the war with the 9800 advisors. That's a lot of advising.

Threat level is either at Ernie or Bert. I can't keep up tho..

http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/terror.jpg

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:57 | 4799150 Catullus
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Apparently the US didn't seek this fight. That's good to know.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:57 | 4799152 Winston Churchill
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Long body bag manufacturers.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:04 | 4799183 power steering
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What about the midgets?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:58 | 4799155 RacerX
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so is this "Mission Accomplished"?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:01 | 4799171 Frank N. Beans
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see below goddamit

 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:03 | 4799178 power steering
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Mission Acomplished!

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 14:58 | 4799156 Frank N. Beans
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mishin accomplished.

 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:03 | 4799180 larz
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mishin akomplisht

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:04 | 4799184 larz
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fixed it

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:05 | 4799188 JuliaS
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America still has 50k+ troops stationed in Germany, just in case Hitler rises from the grave. You never know.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:26 | 4799273 SAT 800
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LOL. If Hitler does rise from the grave, expect him to be appointed Secretary of Defense under Obamma, ASAP. LOL.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:35 | 4799315 FeralSerf
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Why does Germany need five times as many troops as Afghanistan? Are they having problems getting their poppies to grow?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:30 | 4799500 tonyw
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it's to remind them not to ask for their gold back too quickly.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:12 | 4799210 Chupacabra-322
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So, the Criminal UNITED STARES, CORP. INC. CEO will continue his business model of arming, funding & training the exact same terror organizations they claim to protect us from.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:26 | 4799269 saints51
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Of course. The MIC needs a boogeyman.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:27 | 4799281 SAT 800
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Exactly; you got it alright. Where are the guys on the grassy knoll when you need them?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:12 | 4799212 roadhazard
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Get the fuck out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Syria, Africa, Australia and all points in between. 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:26 | 4799278 saints51
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Where is the profit in that logic?

sarc/

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:18 | 4799234 Jano
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Nobel peace prize laureat Hussein Kenya Obanana rules by sword.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:32 | 4799303 SAT 800
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The way he's going in Ukraine; pretty soon he'll be the Novel Peace Prize winner who started WW3; The irony is amazing.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:19 | 4799237 youngman
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What do the 9800 advise...what color of nail polish you should wear with your black Berka for that special night......or how to say sweet nothings into your camels ear....

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:29 | 4799295 SAT 800
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They'll be selling vaseline; an American Product, for breaking in young boys. Afcuntistand is the world headquarters for pedophiles.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:29 | 4799251 Emergency Ward
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"......And then he stopped to pay [the CIA] and he dealed in a field of poppies

Oh, flower of forgetfulness just an hour away to the moon
Take a deep breath if you are reaching for truth
While you're in the stupor the door knocks
And death takes another youth

Poppies, red poppies, red poppies......."

Nina Simone -- "Poppies" (Bleecher, Wind)

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:22 | 4799252 Moneyswirth
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Perpetual war is the tits, comrades. 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:28 | 4799290 Atomizer
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How is that VA investigation going on Kenyon puppet? Stop trying to avert us with new mindless bullshit. Not working to your benefit.

 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:36 | 4799319 starman
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just under 10,000? so 9,999? is it?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:40 | 4799339 Dr. Engali
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Sure there's a draw down to 9,800 troops, but how many Blackwater (or whateverthefucktheirnameisnow) mercs are there?

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:51 | 4799363 tony wilson
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a poppy as remembrance for the brave and the fallen.

a poppy from helmand for heroin processing.

a product for her majesties hsbc

jersey,guernsey,gibralta tax free accounts for bushes,clintons and a gay blair

a right fucked up royal,papal rothschild satanic show.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:12 | 4799443 Flagit
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I thought we all agreed that the "If you like your..." jokes, weren't funny anymore : \

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:26 | 4799487 AMGdesignnl
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This means we can not loose more than the 9.800 men and women if you like ... it's oké for me Obama says ... idiot

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:30 | 4799501 Colonel Klink
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USI - United States of Imperialism

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:39 | 4799536 I Write Code
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The spice must flow.

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:41 | 4799546 European American
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October 27, 2007

 "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank."

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 16:49 | 4799579 tongue.stan
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"If you like your faggot commie Kenyan in chief, you can keep your faggot commie Kenyan in chief" 

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 17:25 | 4799704 kchrisc
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Obama: "Now that we have trained up our military for the murderous job to come at home, we are leaving, but we will leave 9,800 behind just incase you get any ideas about freedom or anything. The oil, lithium and heroin must be kept flowing, don't you know?!"

Tue, 05/27/2014 - 21:05 | 4800374 Herdee
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Some of the boys probably brought back some pretty good seeds.

Wed, 05/28/2014 - 07:33 | 4801234 litemine
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Why not let Corporate America pay the Millitary, they want it there. Not the Tax payer, they risk their life for profits.   Support the Troops......BTFD... 

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