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Originally Posted by Danzig

everyone knows who started it... and everyone knows we're still there. you can only blame your predecessor for so long. obama ran for office, knowing the lay of the land. he can't just duck responsibility for ever on that issue. who got us in vietnam? it became several presidents war. obama isn't special, why should he be the one leader who gets to say 'not my fault'?
he's the commander in chief, has been for almost four years, has had ample opportunity to take care of business there. but, he hasn't; that is NOT bushes fault.

I agree...It is now Obama's...but i still insist if Bush acted wisely and got the heck out early it wouldn't be Obama's/our problem.


Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on..

KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.

The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress -- even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.

Americans show more interest in the economy and taxes than the latest suicide bombings in a different, distant land. They're more tuned in to the political ad war playing out on television than the deadly fight still raging against the Taliban. Earlier this month, protesters at the Iowa State Fair chanted "Stop the war!" They were referring to one purportedly being waged against the middle class.

By the time voters go to the polls Nov. 6 to choose between Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the war will be in its 12th year. For most Americans, that's long enough.

Not since the Korean War of the early 1950s -- a much shorter but more intense fight -- has an armed conflict involving America's sons and daughters captured so little public attention.

"We're bored with it," said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for five years including 16 months in eastern Afghanistan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq -- the wrong war.

"We all laugh about how no one really cares," he said. "All the 'support the troops' stuff is bumper sticker deep.".How true..

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...ing-rages.html