18 Month Troop Build Up Equals 2-4 Years

So much for 18 months until troop draw down begins in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Gates, another one of America’s usurpers, has made it clear that troops will likely continue fighting in Afghanistan for the next two to four years. The U.S. will not be able to turn over control of Afghanistan to it’s rightful, elected leadership known as the Taliban, because U.S. troops are there to crush the Taliban and install puppet leadership. However, since most Afghanistan citizens supported the Taliban and their ouster of the opium drug lords the U.S. was sent to protect, our troops face a major uphill battle. It is highly likely that U.S. troops will have to kill on the order of one million or more Afghanistan civilians, as they did in Iraq, to ensure there is no fight left in the people, and they will remain subdued when American forces leave control to the new puppets in charge. Gates is more than happy for the Taliban to lay low while U.S. troops secure control of all the important assets within the country. In his eyes, this will only make enslaving their peoples easier. The idea that they must renounce Al-qaida is a joke, because Al-qaida is their own creation, and is made up of mostly white skinned pretenders like Adam Gadahn a.k.a. Adam Pearlman and other fakes. Gates is planning on a long term relationship with Afghanistan, because when U.S. troops are done, the country will no longer belong to it’s people. It will belong to the same traitorous usurpers that run the U.S., and are responsible for these wars. This is what you get when you are working for the enemy while they destroy your homeland. War, war, lies, lies, and more lies, and more war. Don’t expect it to end with Afghanistan. Iran is next on the list.

Source: Yahoo
Date: 06DEC09

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant U.S. military presence in Afghanistan for two years to four years more.

Just as in Iraq, the U.S. eventually will turn over provinces to local security forces, allowing the United States to bring the number of troops down steadily, according to Gates, who appeared on three Sunday talk shows with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to discuss President Barack Obama’s new Afghan war plan.

That plan includes an increase of 30,000 U.S. troops, followed by a scheduled transition to a greater role for Afghan forces that would start in July 2011. Obama’s plan would increase to 100,000 the number of U.S. troops there, marking the largest expansion of the war since it began eight years ago.

Gates acknowledged that the additional U.S. forces will mean more casualties at first. He also said he’s happy with the results of an offensive in Helmand province.

“I think one of the reasons that our military leaders are pretty confident is that they have already begun to see changes where the Marines are present in southern Helmand,” Gates said.

The Pentagon chief said the initial U.S. troop withdrawal in July 2011 might involve only a small number of troops. He rejected suggestions that setting a transition date would embolden the Taliban. They read newspapers and are able to determine public opinion in the United States and Europe, he said.

Gates said he doesn’t believe the Taliban will get more aggressive, and would welcome it if they lay low until the target date in 2011 because that would give coalition troops opportunities to make great progress in stabilizing Afghanistan.

Clinton said one area that may not show much progress is winning over Taliban leaders.

They “have to renounce al-Qaida, renounce violence. They have to be willing to abide by the constitution of Afghanistan and live peacefully,” she said.

“We have no firm information whether any of those leaders would be at all interested in following that kind of a path,” she said. “In fact, I’m highly skeptical that any of them would.”

But both Clinton and Gates said having a target date will help move both countries toward a successful transition.

“What we’ve done and what the president’s direction to the commanders on the ground is very clearly: We want this to move. We want it to move quickly,” said Clinton.

Obama’s combination of a troop increase and a transition target is intended to balance “a demonstration of resolve with also communicating a sense of urgency to the Afghan government that they must step up to the plate in terms of recruiting their soldiers, training their soldiers and getting their soldiers into the field,” Gates said

“It’s an effort to try and let the Afghans know that while we intend to have a relationship and support them for a long time, the nature of that relationship is going to begin to change in July of 2011,” Gates said. “And as the security component comes down, the economic, development and the political relationship will become a bigger part of the relationship.”

Clinton and Gates appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’ “Face the Nation” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The interviews were taped Saturday and the networks provided transcripts in advance of the shows’ broadcast.