Is it just me, or does he look a little like Ben Affleck?
Posted on 06/25/2010 12:25:33 PM PDT by pissant
Washington (CNN) - Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr., a veteran of the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, told CNN Thursday he's not surprised there may be some tension between the military and the Obama administration.
"If you look at this administration, if you look at then-Senator Biden, then-Senator Obama, then-Senator Clinton, with the way that they went after Petraeus three years ago and said that that Iraq surge was not going to work, I think that the military commanders right now, the ones that have three and four stars, have a little bit of a - a burr under their saddle when it comes to this administration," Hunter told CNN's John King.
"These are the same senators who - who basically said that General Petraeus was incompetent three years ago. But now they're looking to him to win in Afghanistan."
Obama, Biden and Clinton were opposed to the 2007 "surge" of sending 30,000 additional troops to Iraq, an initiative Petraeus spearheaded.
Duncan, a California Republican, is the son of former Rep. Duncan L. Hunter, a former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The younger Hunter succeeded his father as the congressman from California's 52nd district in 2008, when the elder Hunter launched an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Don’t have to be in the military to think that!
Geez Duh-ncan, ya think?
He’s right
notice how the media don’t look to more pressing issue of why the military frowns upon this white house and why do they.
When a top General says the CIC looks uncomfortable and does nto seem to have a clue who or what things and people are then there is a massive problem so here’s a thought for the MEDIA AGAIN, ASK WHY DOES THIS CIC HAVE NO CLUE and why did he say corpse for corps , I mean he is only the CIC afterall
If McChrystal had said that about Bush, the ENTIRE storyline would be the incompetent president.
A warrior like McChrystal would not end his career like that unless the situation were truly desperate.
And having a clueless, illegal alien, marxist quisling pretending to be CIC is a desperate situation.
Is it just me, or does he look a little like Ben Affleck?
Well at least this fiasco might alert some more of the wimpy independents to what their Messiah is really like
“And having a clueless, illegal alien, marxist quisling pretending to be CIC is a desperate situation.”
Yesterday someone here described him as “the gook in the wire.”
The most natural thing in the world is for there to be enmity between America's military and America's enemies.
From rawstory, a comment on cnn...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed keeping Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the job because he was vital to the war effort in Afghanistan, but Gates was overruled...
said McChrystal had to stay in command because the war is at such a critical point,
Sayed Massoud, an analyst and lecturer at Kabul University, expressed concern at the departure of McChrystal just weeks after the sacking of the Afghan interior minister and head of intelligence.
“I’m very scared about this, that the Afghan interior minister, head of Afghan intelligence and McChrystal are removed from their positions in a very short time. It means a kind of change is coming to Afghanistan.”
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I feel the firing of the most ProAmerican AntiTalib ministers in Afghanistan were the doings of Biden, Eikenberry and Obama and Holbrooke.
From rawstory, a comment on cnn...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed keeping Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the job because he was vital to the war effort in Afghanistan, but Gates was overruled...
said McChrystal had to stay in command because the war is at such a critical point,
Sayed Massoud, an analyst and lecturer at Kabul University, expressed concern at the departure of McChrystal just weeks after the sacking of the Afghan interior minister and head of intelligence.
“I’m very scared about this, that the Afghan interior minister, head of Afghan intelligence and McChrystal are removed from their positions in a very short time. It means a kind of change is coming to Afghanistan.”
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I feel the firing of the most ProAmerican AntiTalib ministers in Afghanistan were the doings of Biden, Eikenberry and Obama and Holbrooke.
” The most natural thing in the world is for there to be enmity between America’s military and America’s enemies. “
You can’t top this ;-)
“Obama, Biden and Clinton were opposed to the 2007 “surge” of sending 30,000 additional troops to Iraq, an initiative Petraeus spearheaded. “
Yep, it would sure clear the air if all three would admit publicly they were dead wrong and would be listening more carefully to military commanders who ought to know way better than they do what works and what doesn’t. Would they presume to challenge the recommendation of the world’s leading expert on oil spills about how to deal with the Gulf spill? Their arrogance back then was stunning, but it reflected the finger-in-the-wind politics at which all 3 were masters.
how about the way queen pelosi treated the general? it is no wonder why the military loves these people
Master of the obvious moment, Duncan. DUH!
You mean Babs "Call me SENATOR" Boxer? All those years, that leftist, military-hating woman sat on Armed Services in the House, total disgrace, and that episode with the general demonstrated she learned nothing in all that time.
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