Hopefully Dennis Kuicinich. Obama is turning into a pro-war fascist who kills innocent muslims, just like Bush.
Please! Obama inherited this war. He at least has an exit strategy.
al-Qaeda did attack America in the worst possible way, and it must be destroyed. al-Qaeda is anything but innocent. We don't have reasonable means of negotiating with them. If we were to buy them off, then we would be complicit in their next horrors, whether against us or against some country just as undeserving of a 9/11 attack as we were.
Under Bush you were against Afghanistan war?! WTF
Y'know, although the argument has lost a great deal of its mass appeal from the way the Bush Administration shamelessly abused and misused as a basis for invading Iraq, the Taliban and al-Queda
were closely involved in killing over 3000 Americans on 9/11. There is an undeniable national interest in prosecuting the war in Afghanistan.
Comparing Obama as Bush redux because he is continuing the war in Afghanistan is just plain silly. Obama ALWAYS argued (correctly) as a candidate that the more important Afghan war was hobbled by a drain of men, material and money to an unnecessary war in Iraq, so it's not like he's changed his position since taking office. The key is whether we have a president who views American interests and the use of military power pragmatically with a strong penchant for the power of diplomacy
whenever possible (as is clearly not the case with al-Queda). NOT an administration that views military intervention as a necessary crusade to expand US hegemony across the globe and diplomacy as merely a preliminary step to inevitable armed intervention.
