Full Video Of Obama’s Speech On Afghanistan

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 8:22pm

He reminds America why we’re fighting, how we almost won in Afghanistan, how we got off course because of Iraq (without laying blame), how we plan to fix it and that this isn’t an open ended commitment.

He even goes so far as to talk about when he’ll start bringing people home: July 2011.

All in all, pretty cut and dry.

Sure, there are those who will disagree with this plan, but they think we should just...



 

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