airplane bomber was NOT from agh/Yemen leader says 300 qaedas in yemen/
Obama flips lid, vows to hnt down word qaeda/

lyons has cancer

 
STEADY DECLINE IN SUPPORT FOR OBAMA’S AFGHAN POLICY/
Minn.post 4dec

Support might spike after his speech,
Plummet after spke in casualties.

 
ANTI-WAR BASE:
--We’ll of course vote for Obama in 2012, as lesser evil.
But we won’t give much money.

--We’ll of course vote for Dem Senate candidtate ,
as lesser evil==
Romanoff will likely beat Bennet in Colrado Dem primary;
But if Bennett votes against
funding 30K more GIs in Afgh,
Then we’ll support him vs. Romanoff
And GOP candidate —just to register our position strongly.

If Romanov says he’d vote vs. escalation,and Bennet votes vs. escalation,
We might stay home in Primary—or support Bennet,
Voting against GOP Senate candidate.

 
Sorry—I’ve been sick.

OBAMA’S SPEECH(pure failed politics)
--he tried to appease anti-war dems
with chatter about 2011 pullout—/
but this is just chatter about START of pullout…
no assurance that it will happen./

--He tried to appease nasty GOP by throwing 30k more troops (and billions more dollars) into the furnace./
But of course GOP immediately denounced
his pullout plan./

ULLAM notes in United Press Features that we lack 3 essential tools
To find a dignified exit:
--GOVERNANCE: Karzai can’t be replaced—
the few competent ministers in his cabinet will quit
when all the $ go to provincial govts—will they do better?/

US waste is real issue, not Karzai’s corruption—
Only one dime in a dollar of our Aid goes to Afghans !

--building up Afghan army:
Officers are Tajiks, problem is mainly with Pashtuns/
Afghans are illiterate/ Optimists say setting up this army will take 3 to 5 years—what happened to 2011?/

When we leave, who will pay the army? Not Afghanistan !