Posted on 10/27/2015 10:22:44 AM PDT by george76
Here's the scene last week: Army Delta Force troops, in boots on the ground in Iraq, swooping into an ISIS prison camp along with Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers. The mission: Free more than five dozen Kurdish and Iraqi captives believed in imminent danger of mass execution.
In the darkness, a fierce firefight erupts. The Kurdish and Iraqi break-in stalls. The experienced Special Ops guys, who happen to be heavily-armed in body armor, night-vision goggles and full combat gear, open up. Numerous ISIS troops fall. So does one U.S. operative, Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a veteran of 14 deployments. They breach the buildings. Prisoners are freed. Valuable intell gathered.
As choppers whop-whop away, smart bombs whistle in out of the night. Prison camp disappears.
All this, according to the silly parlance and ridiculous rationale of Obama administration officials, is not real combat.
How, normal people might inquire, is a blazing firefight with fatalities and large explosions not really combat?
Because these officials are once again unfortunate hostages to yet another unfortunate statement by Barack Obama. Remember the red line in Syria? The ObamaCare promises? Again, contemporary reality must be twisted to conform to Obama's past rhetoric.
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On Monday, Obama's press secretary, Josh Earnest, took a very deep breath and sought desperately to avoid creating a sound-bite containing the word "combat":
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Latest News: We’re not stupid!!
It’s not combat combat. /Whoopi Goldberg
Obama’s missing birth certificate is not “missing”.
America’s publicized health records are not “public”
but the new “transparency”.
Benghazi is not treason but is now a vitamin.
IRS Abuse is, unlike with Nixon, a “good thing”.
America is LOST with Obama’s knife in her neck,
and the daggers of the GOP in her back.
Or the word muslim, or islam, or terrorist, or ......
Earnest really has a very hard job. How he can be a lying suckup and deny the obvious truth every day must be difficult.
The Great OZ Speaks. BARRRRRRrrrrrFF!
What must these American soldiers think when they find out that what they did, that got one of their own killed, was actually not combat. Was the fallen soldier not then, “Killin in Action”? Do you classify it as a training operation? Was it a rescue mission like the coast guard does?
Why doesn’t the press errupt at stupidity like this?
That smarmy smirk he is so fond of is a bit irritating to say the least.
We’ve been here before. If you deny
there’s a problem then you don’t have
to do anything about it.
“ISIS is only a JV squad.”
“Benghazi was a street reaction to a youtube vide.”
It’s become Obama’s theme song.
Mention obama, or his “aides”, and utter stupidity and ignorant, arrogant malice ensues.
I wish just once someone in the crowd would tell out “STOP THE BS- We’re not idiots- You people apparently are incapable of telling the truth!”
and add “ANY ignoramus can clearly see that this WAS combat- Just stop the BS- K? Thanks!”
My favorite TV show of 1965 and 1966.
When Cage got hit, I cried my eyes out. Had to wait until the next week to find out he was only badly wounded. Whew!
In my older age, I realize now, that the events depicted were only twenty years removed.
Like stuff from 1994-1995 on TV screens today.
That and 12 O’Clock High.
Sgt. Saunders was the only GI in the ETO with a camo helmet cover.
there is no end to this regime’s insults and crimes because they know NO ONE can do anything about it or stop them short of physically taking over DC and throwing them all in jail.
It was a Master Sergeant too. They don’t grow on trees. Hope it was worth it.
For Josh Earnest, it isn’t difficult at all. He’s a natural. Lying comes as effortlessly to him as breathing does to the rest of us.
I was partial to "Rat Patrol"
He’s joshing in earnest.
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