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White House: New Woodward book shows 'decisive' president
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Posted on 09/22/2010 8:05:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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21 posted on 09/22/2010 8:35:05 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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This Woodward book somewhat if not completely confirms this. I think the Clinton Machine is at work and Hillary will challenge Obama as a (fake of course) center right moderate. It won't work too many people are wide awake now but God help us.
22 posted on 09/22/2010 8:36:25 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: SumProVita

Yeah we all knew all of this. It is just confirmed with details now.

Looking at all that have quit and a chief of staff that wants to take a paygrade drop and be mayor says a lot.


23 posted on 09/22/2010 8:38:47 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”

In a dramatic scene at the White House on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, Obama summoned the national security team to outline his decision and distribute his six-page terms sheet. He went around the room, one by one, asking each participant whether he or she had any objections - to “say so now,” Woodward reports.

The document - a copy of which is reprinted in the book - took the unusual step of stating, along with the strategy’s objectives, what the military was not supposed to do. The president went into detail, according to Woodward, to make sure that the military wouldn’t attempt to expand the mission.

After Obama informed the military of his decision, Woodward writes, the Pentagon kept trying to reopen the decision, peppering the White House with new questions. Obama, in exasperation, reacted by asking, “Why do we keep having these meetings?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/21/AR2010092106706_pf.html


24 posted on 09/22/2010 8:40:03 AM PDT by mojitojoe ("Ridicule is man's most potent weapon" Saul Alinsky... I will take Odungo's mentors advice)
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To: SumProVita

The President has decided to use the teleprompter


25 posted on 09/22/2010 8:42:30 AM PDT by woofie
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To: COUNTrecount

“We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.” Barrack Hussein Obama 2010

This is all you need to know about this so-called Commander in Chief. We are all expendable to him as long as he survives and rules.


26 posted on 09/22/2010 8:55:32 AM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember 911 *** God Bless Our Troops)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does anyone actually believe a dedicated leftist like Woodward would write a book highly critical of The One??!! Why do you think HE was invited to the White House to write a book rather than RUSH or SAVAGE or COULTER????


27 posted on 09/22/2010 8:56:22 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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Interesting. There is no denial of Woodward’s account in the WH statement, just spin.

Sounds like the WH just confirmed the accuracy of the Woodward account. Draw your own conclusions.


28 posted on 09/22/2010 9:00:54 AM PDT by mojito
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To: BlessingsofLiberty

Very true.


29 posted on 09/22/2010 9:03:13 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Read the Washington Post and New York Times articles about this. This book will be VERY, VERY bad for Obama, and should be a huge benefit for Republicans in the election.

Among other things Obama says that we can “absorb” a terrorist attack, so we are surrendering in Afghanistan. He says he needs to surrender because he wants to spend the money elsewhere (social programs), and because the Democratic Party wants him to. In other words, we are surrendering so that Obama can win this election.


30 posted on 09/22/2010 9:06:12 AM PDT by Siegfried X
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Yes. Obama ignored the advice of all his generals and instead came up with his own 6 page document for surrender. That’s our war strategy.

The NY Times article also says that the White House gagged General Patraeus, ordering him not to appear on television talk shows.


31 posted on 09/22/2010 9:08:14 AM PDT by Siegfried X
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/asia/22policy.html?hp


32 posted on 09/22/2010 9:09:32 AM PDT by Siegfried X
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Here, again, a U. S. president seems to be portrayed in this book as the cartoonist once portrayed a weak Jimmy Carter, calling out to the crowd ahead of him, "Wait, wait, there go my people. I am their leader. I must follow them."
33 posted on 09/22/2010 9:11:46 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Sub-Driver

divisive maybe but decisive???


34 posted on 09/22/2010 9:15:50 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: Siegfried X

Petraeus is turning into an O “yes man’. What a disgrace.


35 posted on 09/22/2010 9:43:50 AM PDT by mojitojoe ("Ridicule is man's most potent weapon" Saul Alinsky... I will take Odungo's mentors advice)
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Wrong interpret ration.
36 posted on 09/22/2010 9:50:49 AM PDT by verity
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To: verity

interpretation...
egads.


37 posted on 09/22/2010 9:52:12 AM PDT by verity
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Here is how Obama will allow another 9/11 to happen:

So (1) Obama refuses to destroy the terrorist bases overseas, and is withdrawing all our forces

(2) Obama is leaving our borders wide open, so the Afgan-trained terrorists will easily be able to infiltrate through Mexico.

(3) Once the terrorists arrive, Obama’s “sanctuary” policy means that police can’t question those illegal alien terrorists, or deport them. (Under Obama’s policy only illegal aliens who commit other crimes like theft can be deported).

This means that 9/11 can be repeated again by the same process. First, terrorists will train in their bases in Afghanistan. Second, they will cross our borders into the USA. Third, they can remain here and train, like the 9/11 terrorists did, because Obama wouldn’t allow their expulsion. Finally, they could launch their attack.


38 posted on 09/22/2010 9:59:26 AM PDT by Siegfried X
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ve met many stupid people who were decisive.


39 posted on 09/22/2010 10:50:17 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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