Gates: Timelines can be extended

If I were one of those idiot Leftists who believed that the Obama posse would withdraw from our current wars, I’d be pretty pissed right about now. Now the Secretary of Defense is getting the American public ready for the eventuality that time line withdrawals of our forces probably won’t happen. Secretary Robert Gates, in his final weeks in office warns that the Obama Administration needs more time in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Iraq;

U.S. and Iraqi officials have said for months that they expect Iraqi leaders to eventually ask for an extension of the military agreement with the U.S., but the political impasse has put the idea on hold.

A spike in violence in Iraq over the past two weeks has underscored the continued potency of al-Qaida and other Sunni extremists.

On Afghanistan;

Afghanistan will be ready to defend itself by 2014, top Pentagon officials said Monday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen both back Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s proposal to turn over security responsibilities to Afghans in four years.

“As a target at this point that makes sense,” Mullen told reporters during a trip to Australia. Mullen, however, added, “we’re clearly not there yet.”

As it’s been said about Obama in the past, it’s a lot easier to campaign than it is to govern. He promised to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office and here we are nearly two years later with more than 50,000 troops still there. His promise to withdraw from Afghanistan this summer seems to have hit snags. So I wonder when Obama, Pelosi and Reid will admit that time line withdrawals won’t work? Or are Gates’ announcements over the last few days really their admissions?

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War