The New Media Journal | Moore to Obama: 'We F*#&in' Hate These Generals'

The New Media Journal | Moore to Obama: 'We F*#&in' Hate These Generals': "Even before he outlines his strategy on Afghanistan Tuesday night, President Barack Obama is taking flak from his fellow liberals on his reported decision to send more US troops to Afghanistan.

On Monday, in an open letter to President Obama, liberal film-maker Michael Moore asks Obama if he really wants to become the 'new war president.” Moore tells Obama, 'It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do.'

In fact, Moore writes that Obama should have fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal when the general went public with his call for up to 40,000 additional US troops. 'Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate these generals,' Moore said.

Gen. McChrystal’s request for additional troops came in a confidential assessment that was leaked to the Washington Post in September. McChrystal later spoke to the CBS program “60 Minutes” about the progress of war. He called for “a dramatic change in how we operate.”

In agreeing to the general’s request to send more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will 'destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you,' Moore writes. He says the “multitude of young people' who helped elect Obama president will become 'disillusioned cynics' when they realize that 'all politicians are alike.'

'I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so,' Moore wrote...

In fact, Obama campaigned on a promise to end the Iraq war and to shift resources – including more US troops -- to Afghanistan, which he described as the central front in the war on terror.

But Moore, in his letter, tells President Obama “it doesn’t have to be this way.”

“You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones.”

Moore says he knows -- and Obama knows -- that fewer than 100 al-Qaeda members remain in Afghanistan: 'A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it.'"