I thought Obama said the WOT is over blown.
Posted on 07/20/2008 2:13:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
KABUL (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama called the situation in Afghanistan "precarious and urgent" on Sunday and said Washington should start planning to transfer more troops there from Iraq.
The Illinois Democrat spoke from Afghanistan on the CBS program "Face the Nation" after meeting privately with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on an overseas trip meant to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
"We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan and I believe this has to be the central focus, the central front, in our battle against terrorism," Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
B. Hussein Obama and his little toadies in the “media” are really starting to annoy me.
I thought Obama said the WOT is over blown.
Obama lands in Afghanistan for about half an hour and now he knows exactly what to do? Smart guy. He must be a really quick study.
Flippin’ maroon!
/johnny
Stay out of Israel, Anti-christ...
I’m sure the left will be racing for us to up our activities in the “good war”.
Yeah, what he said. Me, too! Me, too!
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, does not have one original thought in his head (most of his “manifesto” is rehashed “social activism”), and it is impossible for him to have a clearly enunciated position he will stay with for longer than it takes him to adjust to his immediate target audience. Only trouble with that is that there are folks out here who have the annoying habit of looking back at what Obama said about something in the past, and comparing it to what he is saying today. The term “flip-flop” comes up, but that is to slander a cheap but functional variety of beach footwear. This is just pure chicanery, counting on charm alone to get himself over the rough patches, and he will be forgiven every gaffe in advance.
America is so screwed.
Afghanistan experts say John McCain and Barack Obama are clueless
New York Daily News July 19, 2008 James Gordon Meek
Posted on Sunday July 20, 00:35:10 GMT-0700 2008 by Zakeet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048293/posts
Tactics win battles, logistics loses wars.
/johnny
That was a pretty interesting article.
I wish both these fools would quit playing politics with our troops.
Obama based his decision on what? His vast experience with the military?
We have to fight terrorists where they are. Afghanistan is not the only place they are and it certainly is not their headquarters or training ground anymore. Iran is where we need to go now to fight the bastards.
Mr. Obama appears to have no ideas of his own; he simply rewords the ideas of others.
All in all adding three brigades is not addiing fighting power if one of those brigades is the modern equivelant of the Romanians or Spanish on the Russian Front in 43-44. Or like the Brazilians in Italy in 44-45.
I have this feeling that Obama is a Copy Cat.
Takes credit for hard work of others.
Isn’t that what community organizers do take credit for things they didn’t work for?
“...Fornek reports that Johnson, 72, objects to Obama taking credit for helping force the CHA to remove asbestos at Altgeld Gardens. Johnson has not read Obama’s book. She said he played no role in the asbestos-removal fight. She said he did help get “angel hair,” another type of dangerous insulation, removed from attics in the complex’s row houses — and worked on public transportation issues and helped get a library built. ‘’He was not with us on the asbestos,’’ she said.
But Johnson told Fornek a different version of the events in 2004 during an interview for a profile on Obama during that year’s U.S. Senate race. She said Obama worked on the asbestos removal after the angel hair project. “We worked together.” Another colleague, Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak, talked to Cheryl Jackson, her daughter. She said her mother was exploited by Obama when he failed to include her efforts in his book.
“My mother worked too hard and too long of a time. That hurts when someone who has been a sole soldier for so long and continues to be a soldier for environmental issues . . . for someone to exploit the work that she has done is not fair.”
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/02/sweet_column_did_obama_take_to.html
Yeh, except he forgot to visit Afghanistan in 2006 when he visited Iraq...for the first time.
Obama is excused from that oversight...after all The One came from virginal conception....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOrYW1F2RPw
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