'Win this war,' Obama says at service for 7 killed in Afghanistan

[laststeamtrain]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

'Win this war,' Obama says at service for 7 killed in Afghanistan
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers Fri Feb 5, 4:55 pm ET

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told hundreds of CIA employees Friday that the deaths of seven of their colleagues in a suicide bombing Dec. 30 in Afghanistan amounted to a "summons . . . to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe."

Security was tight around the CIA's suburban Washington headquarters as Obama joined agency leaders at a memorial service for the five CIA officers and two contractors. The seven died when a Jordanian they thought was working for them against al Qaida blew himself up at an outpost outside Khost.

The bombing, which also killed a Jordanian intelligence officer, was the costliest attack against the agency since a 1983 strike on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon , took the lives of eight CIA officers.

The service wasn't on Obama's publicly released schedule, and reporters who made the 14-minute trip with him from the White House to the CIA's sprawling compound at Langley, Va., weren't allowed into the ceremony.

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. get it tied up by September

troops need to start coming home in the summer of 2010.

[Newsjock]

2. Mr. President, sir, please define 'win'

Thank you for your prompt and courteous reply. And thank you, kind DUers, for reading this comment. Please be well and have a marvelous, civil weekend.

[Downwinder]

3. +

[RedCappedBandit]

8. ++

[glitch]

9. +++

[Yurovsky]

10. ++++

nt

[JanMichael]

13. +++++

nt

[rug]

4. He's lost his mind.

[Libertas1776]

5. For the love of God!!!

Win what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joe the Liberal]

6. Win? not possible.....

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." -George Orwell

[Solly Mack]

7. lolololololol

[Edweird]

11. Oh boy.

[Wilms]

12. *cough*

[tekisui]

14. You have got to be kidding.

[Amonester]

15. complete this mission, to win this war and

mission accomplished

we won
let's move forward: HOME.

[TheWatcher]

16. NO, Mr. President.

END THIS WAR.

[MadHound]

17. And he got the Nobel why?

This is an unwinnable war, and one that we don't, that we shouldn't persecute, for the good of our country. End this war, bring the troops home and look after America. We can no longer afford empire.

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Three things here

1) This war cannot be "won".

2) This war (and no war since August 1945) has never had one goddamned thing to do with keeping our country safe.

3) Neither has the CIA, which was founded by the very same people that funded Adolf Hitler - the Bush Crime Family and their Wall Street partners. They have NEVER operated in the interest of the American People. (Unless you accept the Opie Roberts definition of what "the American People" is)

[Mari333]

19. end it . end it Obama. then you wont have to go to funerals

[DisgustedInMN]

20. K & R

[NNN0LHI]

21. Winning is leaving

Only way to win this game is not to play.

Don

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. "Bring it On!!" "Smoke 'em out!!" Same song, different singer.

[rusty fender]

23. The President's statement proves that the

military industrial complex determines foreign policy, not the citizens of this country. If the Pentagon wants it, war, war machines, it gets it. Sure, they'll concede surface only changes to us, like DADT, but only at their pace.

[bvar22]

24. Great....just great.

WarBama!!!
WooHoo.

If we go kill some more, it will somehow make these useless deaths OK?
I though I voted for the smart guy.

[varelse]

26. OH we did vote for the smart guy

that is the hell of it.

[lib2DaBone]

25. Make up some of those white W-I-N Buttons, "Whip Inflation Now"...

Remember those? Only Mr. Obama can change them to W-O-W.. "Win Our War"....

Then.. when were are all standing in the soup lines.. we can wave our made-in-China little plastic flags and proudly display our W-O-W buttons. :-)