Obama Fiddles While Afghanistan Burns - 8 U.S. Troops Pay The Ultimate Price For A Negligent Commander-in-Chief

First off folks, this post is an incredibly difficult one for me to put up as my hands are still trembling with the outrage of the news of 8 U.S. troops killed in a huge firefight in the Nuristan area of Afghanistan which borders Pakistan. My outrage is not leveled at the Taliban who swarmed the two FOB's and killed our fighting men, no...my outrage is leveled at our Commander-in-Chief, one Barack Hussein Obama. This is a man, Obama, who when presented with an urgent plea by the commanding officer in the Afghanistan theater for 40,000 more troops to carry out the mission, decided that he needed four to six weeks to mull it all over while he flew to Copenhagen to pitch his city of Chicago. Obama decided that ramming a socialized healthcare plan down America's throat was MORE IMPORTANT than protecting our troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

Let me show you this excerpt from the article from Fox News on the battle that took eight of our fighting men from us:

Badar said he had sought more security forces for Kamdesh district. He said Taliban fighters had fled to Nuristan and neighboring Kunar province after Pakistani forces drove many extremists from the Swat Valley earlier this year.
"When there are few security forces, this is what happens," he said.
He also complained about a lack of coordination between international forces and Afghans.

Look at that again and read it more closely. This is an area of Afghanistan that has been flooded with Taliban escaping the military holocaust that the Pakistani military is inflicting on them in the Swat Valley of NW Pakistan and in order to increase the defenses in the region, General McChrystal put out the urgent call for more troops and Obama ignored it. We lost eight young men in this battle not because they were outfought, we lost them because they simply were outnumbered. This wasn't an IED placed in a road that blew up a troop carrier and killed eight soldiers...this was an example of just what McChrystal was talking about.

Let's look at one other example of how Obama's actions in Afghanistan contributed to this slaughter of American troops. From the report:

Militant fighters streaming from an Afghan village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest battles of the eight-year war.

Months ago, under the direction of Obama's advisors, the U.S. forces and NATO forces in Afghanistan revamped their Rules of Engagement (ROE) and basically put civilian buildings, mosques, and other areas that could hold civilians as off limits to any U.S./NATO air support - so look at that line from the article again...the Taliban massed 300 jihadis INSIDE of a mosque and at the opportune time, they streamed out of it in their attack on these two small FOB's. You can't tell me that our troops in those bases didn't see this happening but due to our Commander-in-chief's new orders, not a single JDAM could be dropped on that mosque.

Finally, let me put this in perspective. If a father decided to stop at the shopping mall in the middle of a heat spell where temperatures outside were hovering around 100 degrees and he decided, out of convenience, to leave his 2 year old son in the car while he shopped and that child subsequently died due to heat stroke, chances are good that the father would be charged with homicidal neglect. NEGLECT is the word I am going for here. Barack Obama has been so disengaged from the Afghanistan War that we are now seeing the culmination of that negligence. Not only is Barack Obama's neglect of the war costing us lives of American troops but he is endangering the very lives of Americans home here....this is the reason we are in Afghanistan, by the way, to protect the security of the homeland from islamic terrorism.

I see no way around this other than to proceed with a recall of the Commander-in-chief.

8 U.S. Troops Killed in Attack on Afghanistan Outposts


KABUL — Militant fighters streaming from an Afghan village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest battles of the eight-year war.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for coalition forces since a similar raid in July 2008 killed nine American soldiers in the same mountainous region known as an Al Qaeda haven. The U.S. has already said it plans to pull its soldiers from the isolated area to focus on Afghan population centers.
Fighting began around dawn Saturday and lasted several hours, said Jamaludin Badar, governor of Nuristan province. Badar said the two outposts were on a hill — one near the top and one at the foot of the slope — flanked by the village on one side and the mosque on the other.
Nearly 300 militant fighters flooded the lower, Afghan outpost then swept around it to reach the American station on higher ground from both directions, said Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief. The U.S. military statement said the Americans and Afghans repelled the attack by tribal fighters and "inflicted heavy enemy casualties."
Jangulbagh said that the gunbattle was punctuated by U.S. airstrikes and that 15 Afghan police were captured by the Taliban, including the local police chief and his deputy. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said a council would decide the fates of the police, confirming the capture of the two top local officers.

Badar said five or six Afghan soldiers died, as did one policeman.
Afghan forces were sent as reinforcements, but Jangulbagh said all communications to the district, Kamdesh, were severed and he had no way of knowing how they were faring Sunday. The area is just 20 miles from the Pakistani border and 150 miles from Kabul.
"This was a complex attack in a difficult area," U.S. Col. Randy George, the area commander, said in the American statement. "Both the U.S. and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."
Jangulbagh said the bodies of five enemy fighters were found after the battle.
Nuristan, bordering Pakistan, was where a militant raid on another outpost in July 2008 claimed the lives of nine American soldiers and led to allegations of negligence by their senior commanders. Army Gen. David Petraeus last week ordered a new investigation into that fighting, in which some 200 militants armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars pushed their way into the base, which is no longer operating.
Badar said he had sought more security forces for Kamdesh district. He said Taliban fighters had fled to Nuristan and neighboring Kunar province after Pakistani forces drove many extremists from the Swat Valley earlier this year.
"When there are few security forces, this is what happens," he said.
He also complained about a lack of coordination between international forces and Afghans.
The U.S. statement said the attack would not change previously announced plans to leave the area.
Afghanistan's northeastern Nuristan and Kunar provinces are home to Al Qaeda bases as well as those of wanted terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose military chief Kashmir Khan has been unsuccessfully targeted by U.S. missiles over the past eight years. Kamdesh district has no regular cell phone or landline contact and few roads, dirt or paved. Local security forces communicate by handheld radio.
The region was key for Arab militants who battled alongside Afghan warriors during the 1980s U.S.-backed war against invading Russians because it is a rare place in South Asia where the Wahabi sect of Islam is practiced — the same sect followed by Usama bin Laden and most Saudis.
Many Arabs remained in Afghanistan, marrying Afghans and integrating themselves into local society. Many also belonged to Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami group, now sought as terrorists by the U.S.-led coalition.
Bin Laden also considered the region a useful hiding ground, his former bodyguard, Naseer Ahmed Al-Bahri, told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview in Yemen.
It sits directly across the border from Pakistan's Bajaur Agency, where bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al Zawahri, was last seen.