Reply #62: What is this talk about 8 or 9 years?

[vaberella]

No where in the article does it say anything about us taking 8 or 9 years to end the war. Nor does that increase in soldiers you asking about to end a war fall into this 8 or 9 year equation. How do you expect to answer, when I have no idea why this 8 or 9 years is pimped about.

Secondly, Obama did increase the troops in Iraq by a few thousand---and we've already read that the soldiers are taking down camps and some brigrades are coming home. So Iraq is cleaning up. Third, I'm waiting on Tuesday to hear Obama's reasoning and plans and if I find them logical. I don't know what th best idea is and I doubt you do either and if you tell me get our troops out now you're as inhumane as letting them stay there. Why? Because we'll Afghanistan in the same mess we left Pakistan---disatrous. It was bad when we went in but now it's just almost unliveable and we killed may people ther ein our 8 years and created inhumane acts. How would that be to just completely eliminate our people ther when there are some civilians trying to make some positive changes under our jurisdiction? It would not be responsible to just remove the troops one by one without leaving something behind and it's not good to leave our troops there indefinitely.

So to be honest..I don't know what the best idea is and I'm not privy to all the information that is going on and I want to hear what Obama is going to say and his plans and see if that's reasonable course of actions. People may claim to have a good idea but no one here knows what the best plan of action is, no one.