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Jen the Michigander


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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6750074.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Ftopheadlines+%28chron.com+-+Top+Stories%29

A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president's chief military and diplomatic advisers sought to cool any expectations that the war would end in two years.

Leading Democrats said they had serious misgivings about the deployment of 30,000 more troops but would not try to block it — or the $30 billion it will cost. Republicans said they support the force increase even as they doubted Obama's July 2011 deadline to start bringing troops home.

The response was the best Obama could have hoped for from a Congress sharply divided on the war.

Much of the congressional questioning focused on the July 2011 date when the surge would begin to ebb.

Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton all sought to stress that the 18-month timeline would not constrain the military or encourage the Taliban.

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Well, they rolled over on the presidency being stolen from Hillary, AND on Barack Obama not even being eligible to be president.  What's the big surprise that they'll sit back and relax while our brave men and women are killed for nothing?

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Well, we're locked in, so to speak.

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