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The lifting of the 18-year ban on media coverage of bodies returning to Dover was done to keep the human cost of war from being shielded from the public.
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For all the talk of his potential troop increase -- maybe 40,000, maybe some other large figure -- Obama got a grim reminder of the number that counts: one.
Originally posted by jam321
However, I do have a problem with the way he is honoring them. If he truly wants to honor them, he needs to hurry up on his plans in Afghanistan and give the troops a fighting chance to take care of business.
We should get out of there asap and use drones to bomb the hell out of every suspected AQ connection, period.
Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
reply to post by jam321
To be honest as a War Vet of both wars Iraq and Afgan, I think its time to pack it up and come home, We are not serious about defeating Bin Laden and his croonies. If we were we would have dropped the full hammer on them by now... If we are going to stay WIN THE DAMN thing you know, Dump a hundred thousand US Soldiers from Iraq into Afgan, watch the Afganies # some bricks.
]If we were we would have dropped the full hammer on them by now...
I think we should make a hasty exit and work with intelligence communities for a SMART war.
Originally posted by jam321
The same community we are investigating.
But if you really want the intelligence community to take care of this matter than you have to be willing to look the other way.