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ISTOOK: Marine veteran Rep. Hunter says Obama squandered America’s victory in Iraq
The Washington Times ^
| June 13, 2014
| Ernest Istook
Posted on 06/13/2014 9:39:08 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. nailed it.
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:39:08 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Obummer, the impotent potentate,
doesn`t want to start a foreign war-
he wants to start a domestic war.
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
To: jazusamo
(repost from my earlier comment)
“Bush started it
All Bushs fault
Buck stops at Bush and only Bush
....”
BTW, all you peons know he inherited the mess, right?
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:41:46 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:44:38 AM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: jazusamo
“squandered”???
I think obama has Iraq just where he wanted it to be and is passing out candies as sharia is installed and beheadings are escalated. O is a perverted, sick sob.
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:45:04 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: jazusamo
He’s right, of course. Anything Zero touches turns to ****.
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:46:37 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: jazusamo
Here’s the story...
Obama got sandbagged BIGTIME by the Syrian rebels. Obama gave them arms, money and training. They asked for more and more...and they got it. They stockpiled the arms and held back the best fighters, so they could knock down a berm and invade Iraq.
This all is NOT a story because a progressive media darling named John McCain is fully complicit.
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:46:44 AM PDT
by
Fitzy_888
("ownership society")
To: Sir Napsalot
Nixon inherited Vietnam from Johnson, but according to RFK (whose brother actually ginned-up the war) McGovern and other liberal doochbags, it was `Nixon’s war’.
Did you know John Frikken Kerry served in Vietnam?
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posted on
06/13/2014 9:49:55 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: tumblindice
And as we speak, the SOB has not made a decision to intervene.
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:07:44 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
To: jazusamo
But the White Hut staff is preparing some really awesome hashtags!
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:10:00 AM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: jazusamo
To all Iraq War vets from this Vietnam War vet, welcome to the club.
Those serving in both wars have watched the political class walk away from our commitments, squander our meager gains and abandon those who stood beside us to a terrible fate and the harsh reality that the United States is not to be relied upon or feared.
It is impossible to ignore the comparison of Saigon on the eve of the North Vietnam occupation on April 30, 1975 and Baghdad on June 12, 2014. Some of us will always remember the photos of the scramble to board helicopters atop the roof as the last of the U.S presence was withdrawn. I am confident Iraq vets will be haunted by their own symbols if things turn out, as it appears today they will, in Baghdad.
In the case of Vietnam the U.S. failed to enforce the Paris Peace Treaty when December 13, 1974 North Vietnam invaded the south at Phuoc Long, predictable after the passage of the Case-Church Amendment the previous year. As for Iraq, failure of the U.S. to reach a new status of forces agreement with the Iraq government left no means to influence events on the ground leading to the current insurgent offensive.
Both demonstrate the absence of political will. No matter the arguments regarding the justification or methods of conduct of these wars the result for those South Vietnamese and Iraqis who tied their futures to the U.S. proves devastating.
In Southeast Asia friends of the U.S. suffered relocation, reeducation camps and deaths numbering hundreds of thousands; in Iraq they may very likely lose their head.
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:10:26 AM PDT
by
pasodave
To: jazusamo
So if we followed Rep. Hunter’s proposal to leave thousands of troops in Iraq then right now they’d be caught in the middle of this civil war. Which means we’d either have to pull them out or send in more. Does Rep. Hunter honestly think that is a good thing?
To: jazusamo
He needn’t convince me that soebakah is a Treasonous islamist pigdog.
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:11:35 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: DoodleDawg
Hunter can go to hell no more dead American soldiers for this rotten part of the world. Let Hunter send his own sons to war!
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:12:33 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: jazusamo
Rep Duncan Hunter is a Marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan..
His father is Duncan Hunter former Rep who fought in Nam in the Army..
His Dad’s Dad was a decorated Marine in WWII..
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To: tumblindice
but according to RFK (whose brother actually ginned-up the war) McGovern and other liberal doochbags, it was `Nixons war.
________________________________________
How could Robert Kennedy have said it was Nixon’s war when Kennedy was killed in Aug 1968 and Nixon wasn’t elected until Nov of the year..
When Kennedy died it was still Johnson’s war...
To: DoodleDawg
Did you bother to read the article?
He said 5,000 troops for logistics and communications.
Do you really think ISIS would have attacked had we had a president with an ounce of sense regarding foreign policy?
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posted on
06/13/2014 10:35:16 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
He said 5,000 troops for logistics and communications. So then we have 5,000 troops for logistics and communications...and a million screaming Muslim fanatics bearing down on them. Now what?
Do you really think ISIS would have attacked had we had a president with an ounce of sense regarding foreign policy?
Yes. This group didn't just spring out of the ground yesterday. They fought the U.S. during the invasion, have been fighting Asad for some time, and now are turning their sights on al-Makiki. It doesn't matter who the president of the Great Satan was, they would have moved anyway.
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