Gen. McKiernan Wasn’t At First National Security Meeting

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 7:56 am

Following up on Matt’s post — and correcting my earlier one — notice how the last clause of President Obama’s statement about the first meeting with many members of his national security team is ” … we will undertake a full review of the situation in Afghanistan in order to develop a comprehensive policy for the entire region.” That’s because early reports of the meeting’s agenda were incorrect. I’ve confirmed with U.S. Forces-Afghanistan that Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, that the commander didn’t participate in the meeting, and was on travel in Europe at the time. For much, much more on Afghanistan policy, check back later today.

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Jaff Sassani
Comment posted January 24, 2009 @ 10:08 am

Mr. President Obama treat us Iranian Like European’s people

The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Al-Qaida terrorist organizations are challenging the US Government influence in the Muslim world. They are not going to negotiate with the US Government for any peaceful settlement. Their goals are clear. They are trying to bleed the US Government financially first and then militarily later.
The Bush administrations’ was very helpful to IRI and Al-Qaida because of their own wrong policy of helping corrupt politicians and dictators of Muslim world.
Mr. President Obama; we hope you are going to change your policy now before it is too late. You have golden opportunity to save the interest of American people in the Muslim world. We hope that you are going to treat us “the Eryan or Iranian or Aryan people” like the US government treated the people of the Western Europe after World War II.


Jaff Sassani
Comment posted January 24, 2009 @ 6:08 pm

Mr. President Obama treat us Iranian Like European’s people

The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Al-Qaida terrorist organizations are challenging the US Government influence in the Muslim world. They are not going to negotiate with the US Government for any peaceful settlement. Their goals are clear. They are trying to bleed the US Government financially first and then militarily later.
The Bush administrations’ was very helpful to IRI and Al-Qaida because of their own wrong policy of helping corrupt politicians and dictators of Muslim world.
Mr. President Obama; we hope you are going to change your policy now before it is too late. You have golden opportunity to save the interest of American people in the Muslim world. We hope that you are going to treat us “the Eryan or Iranian or Aryan people” like the US government treated the people of the Western Europe after World War II.


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