Somebody with CNN Breaking News Alert slipped up:

[Catherine Vincent]

-- Obama intends to end Afghanistan war within three years, according to senior administration officials.


Obama?

[tekisui]

1. What is the slip-up?

[Bluebear]

2. Because last week the White House said we will be out by 2017?

Maybe they don't have their stories lined up.

[hughee99]

7. Maybe he's planning to end the war in 3 years and then just "hang out" for a while. n/t

[NYCGirl]

8. No, only the misleading headline said that. The White Hosue said:

"We are in year nine of our efforts in Afghanistan. We are not going to be there another eight or nine years," Gibbs told reporters. "Our time there will be limited and that is important for people to understand," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/26/news/news-us-afghanistan-usa.html?_r=1


The WH says they are NOT going to be there another 8 or 9 years, so that may mean 1, 2, 3, etc.

[redqueen]

3. Obama is a fascist warmongerer, don't you know?

He couldn't possibly be intending to end the war. He's a sold-out stooge of the corporatists and the military industrial complex.

I thought everyone on DU knew this.

:sarcasm:

[malaise]

5. LOL

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

9. Well.......

:rofl:

[Catherine Vincent]

6. It should be PRESIDENT Obama

:)

[TicketyBoo]

4. It had to be an AP or Reuters feed…

because I heard that on the radio this morning, too.