Bring Our Troops Home

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Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, our top military leadership has still yet to define clearly what victory and success will look like, nor has it identified the goals and objectives of the conflict. So I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I'm ready to declare that it's time to bring our troops home.

I am disgusted with what is happening with General McChrystal and General Patraeus and the general staff of the Pentagon, President Obama, this administration and the fact that we have been waging war in Afghanistan for eight years. I am very upset that the White House has chosen not to even consider withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan while our generals don¹t even have a strategy for victory.

What happened? In the Bush administration we began to tolerate failure on the part of our general staff. We began to tolerate excuses on the part of the general staff. And it's being continued under this administration. I've heard people say this president now owns the war in Afghanistan, that this President owns the war in Iraq. You know what, that's not true: You and I own the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You and I are responsible for every single man and woman in uniform who is serving there and around the world.

And I have a proposition for President Obama: You say you will not consider withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan, so here is my proposition, Mr. President, given that we have not succeeded under the leadership of the general staff for right years in Afghanistan, eight years of combat. Why don't we re-evaluate what we are doing with our troops worldwide, not just Afghanistan?

Here is my proposition: Why not do something for your own legacy, for the American people and our men and women in uniform who deserve far better leadership than they are receiving from their general staff? It is time to call a halt to the nonsense, bring home our troops, and not just from Iraq and Afghanistan, but the 60,000 of them in Germany, 37,000 of them in South Korea, another 10,000 in Japan, bring home our 10,000 troops in Italy.

Bring all of our troops home, and leave only a modest presence wherever it might be proven absolutely necessary, but bring home our troops. And let our so called allies, and allies I'm sure they are, carry their own share of the burden, put their military as forward against whatever enemy is perceived, potential or existent, and let's work as mature responsible partners in these alliances, rather than the United States as some sort of senior partner, some sort of big brother who carries all of the burden, all of the financial sacrifice, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, the overwhelming sacrifice of blood from the brave men and women who serve this nation in uniform.

It is time, Mr. President, this is your opportunity, this is the nation's opportunity, and it's your responsibility as Commander-in-Chief. I hope you'll think about it and I hope each and everyone in Independent America is thinking about what I am saying. I don't believe there is a more urgent issue today than what I just laid out before you.

Join me and sign this petition, for the good of the nation.

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