Maj. Gen. Michael Dubie, the Guard’s commander, said the deployment is the largest for the Vermont Guard since World War II. He said all of the 1,448 Vermont soldiers in the deployment should be in Afghanistan by March and return home by the end of 2010.
Normally I avoid comments on newspaper articles posted online because they tend to be batshit insane, but this one was at the top of the thread:
I observed that Code Pink is in fact protesting Obama's policy, demanding answers and lobbying to end our military involvement. Some of us have even written LTEs:
Our increased troop presence is further inciting Taliban and al-Qaida, which continues to destabilize not only Afghanistan, but nuclear-armed Pakistan, as well. As has been noted before, hope is not a strategy, and our troops cannot defeat an ideology, which a RAND Corp. study definitively demonstrated last year. At a time of economic crisis and dire domestic needs, pursuing a losing war is an unthinkable waste of our money.
It's long past time to put pressure on the president to rethink the failed war that his predecessor launched. Thankfully, Rep. Peter Welch not only voted against the recent supplemental funding bill, he also is a co-sponsor of HR.2404, which calls for an Afghanistan exit strategy.
I urge all my fellow Vermonters to call or write the congressman to thank him for his stand against escalation, and to contact Sens. Leahy and Sanders on this issue, as well.
We cannot afford to waste more blood and treasure in the land where empires go to die.
Would that more people would join us in these efforts, no matter who's in the White House...
ntodd
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