WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan's political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday.
The sharpened focus by Obama's team on fighting al-Qaida above all other goals, while downgrading the emphasis on the Taliban, comes in the midst of an intensely debated administration review of the increasingly unpopular eight-year-old war. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/I_wish_this_was_a_joke On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Obama: Health Care Plan Would Give Seniors Right To Choose How They Are Killed > > WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama held a nationally televised address > Tuesday to "clarify any misunderstandings" about his health care > proposal, assuring Americans that under the new bill senior > citizensand not the federal governmentwill have the right to choose > how they are executed. > > The president vows to systematically eliminate all American seniors in > a manner of their choosing by 2011. > > "Let me dispel these ridiculous rumors once and for all and set the > record straight: Under my plan, seniors are going to be killed the way > they want to be killed, end of story," said the president, who > acknowledged that "wiping out" the nation's elderly population has > always been his No. 1 priority. "If your grandmother would rather be > euthanized in the privacy of her own home than be gutted and hanged on > a high school soccer field, she is entitled to that right." > > "Once again, let me be perfectly clear," Obama continued. "Seniors, > rest easy knowing that I will never, under any circumstance, sign a > bill that doesn't give you the option of being murdered by my > administration in a manner of your choosing. I promise you that." > > http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_health_care_plan_wou ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:305423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
