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Fallujah falls to al-Qaeda, Obama goes golfing
Examiner ^ | 1/4/14 | Robert Elliott

Posted on 01/04/2014 8:39:03 PM PST by TheMantis

One hundred and fifty Americans died fighting for this city, and hundreds more were wounded. And now it has been retaken by the enemy. Commander-in-chief Obama's response: another round of golf.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; fallujah; iran; iraq; obama; ramadi; terrorism; threatmatrix; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/04/2014 8:39:03 PM PST by TheMantis
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To: TheMantis

“......none dare call it treason.”

we have been around I note!!!


2 posted on 01/04/2014 8:42:04 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( a Safe..and Sane....2014 To All!)
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To: TheMantis

I’ll bet we’ll be seeing the New Yawk Slimes send their ace “investigator” over there to “investigate” that it was not Al Qaeda who retook Fallujah but it was just a bunch local yokels pissed off about some YouTube clip. They gotta do what they can to defend their “messiah”.


3 posted on 01/04/2014 8:43:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: TheMantis

Doesn’t matter to this CIC or his voting public. Our wonderful Military is expendable when those who cannot be bothered to work want more money. Our nation is circling the drain and still the parasites want more. Many good and patriotic Americans sacrificed for the freedom of those Iraqis. This buffoon of a CIC only cares about himself and destroying this country. Period.


4 posted on 01/04/2014 8:45:34 PM PST by originalbuckeye (quality)
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To: TheMantis

Mrs. Submareener and I were at the Marine Corps Intelligence Agency during the time the Marines took back Fallujah and the rest of Al Anbar Province. So we know what al-Qaeda will do to the people who supported the US and Iraqi governments. It is not pretty. We need to pray for the people we abandoned.


5 posted on 01/04/2014 8:48:14 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: TheMantis
Ain't democracy wonderful?


6 posted on 01/04/2014 8:51:39 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: TheMantis

Oh, I’m sure he’s “deeply saddened”, or something


7 posted on 01/04/2014 9:01:18 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: TheMantis

I thought everything was supposed to be wonderful when we got rid of Saddam.

8 posted on 01/04/2014 9:05:44 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: MeshugeMikey

My son was involved in the retaking of Fallujah in 2004 (3/1 USMC) . I asked him how he felt about this as he lost a couple team members during that mission.

His comment was “ With this president nothing surprises me!”

This from a marine who reenlisted after getting his ass blown up on his 3rd tour over in that hell hole.

This was my sons reenlistment in 2007

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/30/local/me-reenlist30

With all that he gave This just pisses me off.

Pretty much think that sums it up


9 posted on 01/04/2014 9:31:54 PM PST by Jackalope Hunter (Happiness is a belt fed weapon, Heaven is some good Enfilade.)
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To: TheMantis

Reminds me of JFK’s response when the Berlin Wall went up just 4 months after the Bay of Pigs catastrophe.

Kennedy was sailing on a Sunday morning when word came that East Berlin was being sealed off.

He came back to shore, talked briefly with a staffer, then sailed for another hour.

On the one hand, what could he do, short of declaring war?

On the other hand, I will always believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis would never have happened if Kennedy had shown more resolve and personal strength in those two earlier crises.

I think the same thing can be said about FDR.

There is clear documentary evidence that many senior military and government officials in Japan believed that FDR was effeminate and a man of weak character who desired only public adulation.

I will never believe that the Japanese would have attacked Pearl Harbor if Teddy Roosevelt was president.


10 posted on 01/04/2014 9:36:15 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: TheMantis

>>Commander-in-chief Obama’s response: another round of golf.<<

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What the hell do you expect him to do?

He is incompetent and he three-putts every time.


11 posted on 01/04/2014 9:37:55 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: TheMantis
And now Obama will take away the guns from the veterans who served in Fallujah, too.

-PJ

12 posted on 01/04/2014 9:38:29 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: TheMantis

We have no president, or leadership, no resolve, no foreign policy strength and no Congress. The Islamo-fascists know it. And we represent no threat — just weakness.

None of this should be a surprise.


13 posted on 01/04/2014 9:50:19 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: MeshugeMikey

Impeach Obama in 2014. Period.

The US House of Representatives is analogous to a Police Force - - - their main job of Check and Balance is to “arrest” the perp by Impeaching the perp.

The US Senate is analogous to a Jury of Peers who have the power to throw the Impeached perp off of the taxpayer gravy train, take away his residence, ban him from building a Library paid for by us, and ban him from using his personal Corporate Jet, Air Force One.

Most RINO Americans want to wait, Wait, WAIT! until they control the House, the Senate and the White House.

To those weak-kneeded summer soldier “patriots” I say “Enjoy the Obamanation that you have tolerated since January, 2009.”

In similar manner, we Summer Soldier Conservatives continue to tolerate a wimpy, hand-wringing, sobbing, crybaby Speaker of the House Boehner as our sorry chief policeman.

“Oh, if only my best friends across the aisle would just play nicey nice - - - “ is the perfect quote that fire-in-the-belly Socialist-Democrats love to hear from their doormat, cowardly, Obamacrat RINOs.

Yes indeed, as long as we WAIT for things to be PERFECT we will never attack those whose goal is to destroy the US Constitution.

Suck it up you sorry House RINOs, and replace John “Benghazi Coverup” Boehner with SC Rep Trey Gowdey, or SC Rep Joe Wilson.

Without a fire-in-the-belly Republican Speaker of the House, Obamacrat RINOs will continue to cave in to “their best friends across the aisle,” to the unbridled glee of every Democrat voter in America!

House RINOs: Pretend that you are paid by taxpayers to fight to enforce the US Constitution.

Fight or go home, House RINOs.

FIGHT or we will send you home!

Impeach Obama in 2014. Period.


14 posted on 01/04/2014 9:53:59 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: zeestephen
I will never believe that the Japanese would have attacked Pearl Harbor if Teddy Roosevelt was president.

Cf. Contrafactus, pg. 633 of GEB, where the "Subjunc-TV" is discussed and employed, ... "What would that last play have looked like if space were four-dimensional?"

15 posted on 01/04/2014 10:03:39 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: TheMantis

I literally STUDIED the whole situation before we got into Iraq the second time. I came to the conclusion that it was right to go in. I read a lot about Saddam’s nuke plans and his progress with chemicals. I definitely believe / know he had WMDs. I saw connections with terrorism, that broken passenger plane they practiced with in the desert, the Oklahoma City Iraqi connection. I was freaking thorough. I ended up supporting the war.

All those guys died. And now, literally for naught -— though their bravery, patriotism, and heroism remains forever true.

We should never support wars without ENDING STRATEGIES. Not exit strategies. Turning tail and retreating is easy. ENDING STRATEGY means the enemy is not going to slap you again because his arm has been blown right off.


16 posted on 01/04/2014 10:12:23 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: TheMantis; All

Obama is happy about it I’m sure.


17 posted on 01/04/2014 10:27:13 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: dr_lew

I’m not sure if you are making fun of me or not, but it’s fine if you are, I have a good sense of humor about myself.

My point is that any CIC who allows himself to be perceived as weak or indecisive in any way ENCOURAGES an enemy to attack him, or, at least to test him.

I think that happened to both FDR and JFK.


18 posted on 01/04/2014 10:47:49 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
I’m not sure if you are making fun of me or not ...

Not at all. The idea just struck me as a classic "contrafactual", in terms of the reference I mentioned.

19 posted on 01/04/2014 10:53:11 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: TheMantis

That 3 AM Red Phone must be ringing off the hook by now. Won’t somebody, anybody answer the call? Grandma Robinson (Michelle’s Live-in Mom) does not count.


20 posted on 01/05/2014 12:02:24 AM PST by lee martell
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