Posted on 03/27/2011 4:33:39 PM PDT by Starman417
"The Fast and the Furious" was a gun-running program that allowed thousands of AK-47's to enter Mexico from the United States ostensibly to allow tracking of their movements. At the same time it allows the AK-47's to go into Mexico, it is the policy of this administration to arm border patrol agents with bean bags as their first line of defense against AK-47's.
Such policy got border patrol Brian Terry agent killed in December. Terry was killed with one of the assault rifles that this administration sent into Mexico.
As I noted previously, at first this administration denied that it was policy to arm border patrol agents with bean bags to fight AK's.
That turned out to be false.
Now Barack Obama claims that neither he nor Eric Holder authorized the operation and was quick to make sure he was free of responsibility.
Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious.”
This is the same Obama who called John McCain "naive and irresponsible."
"If they want a debate about protecting the United States of America, that's a debate I'm ready to win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for." He blamed Bush for policies that enhance the strength of terrorist groups such as Hamas and "the fact that al-Qaida's leadership is stronger than ever because we took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan."
Obama is always quick to point out the failings of others yet is lightning fast to duck responsibility.
But Eric Holder did know about it.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano denied having previous knowledge of the operations, while Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to knowing of the ATF's gun-tracking tactics, but called cross-border gun-trafficking "not acceptable".
It's "not acceptable" but apparently he did not put an end to it. If such an operation was "not acceptable" why did Holder not find out who authorized it and do so immediately?
None of these denials seem plausible. And here is the million dollar question:
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Not a damn thing and being able to read a clock isn't a mandate to be POTUS.
If you listen to Obama, he didn’t know and he’s still not sure.
I think the real question is, “What did TOTUS know?”, because we really know that Obama is incapable of making a decision.
He neither has a need to know nor the responibility to know anything. He’s the sometime, the supposed POTUS: S’POTUS.
I’m guessing everything right from the start.
If we don’t use this to bury that lying, traitorous son of a bitch, and Holder too, then shame the hell on us.
Nothing, as usual. He’s got a slicker coat of Teflon than Bubba ever had. He knows nothing, sees nothing, and what he says is extremely vague at the very least, and most of it a bald face lie at the most.
I don’t think he knew cr** until everything was decided. He’s a friggin’ puppet.
Arming terrorist in a foreign nation that attack the USA.= Espionage/Act of Treason.>
Better Hope Kookchinich Gets ya a pardon with that impeachment!
I still say this is what all that tail wagging in Libya is about!
Bttt.
Unfortunately he is a puppet without a puppet master.
This is an administration without a leader.
Every time there is a new issue in the news every secretary of whatever has a different opinion of what the administration’s policy is dealing with that issue.
The Obama administration is a herd of cats with out a cat herder.
Doesn’t any American Citizen see that the DEMORATS want an Open Border to Fuel their Drug Crazed Needs and the Funds they collect from the Drug Dealers to protect the Supplies to the Inner Cities and the Celebrities! Is it any accident that the Demorats arm the Drug Dealer Friends with AK 47s! and then force Our Border Guards to try and shoot them with Bean Bags!! If Obama didn’t know this, then he absolutely needs to be fired and put in Prison for TREASON and IGNORANCE!!
That is my guess. He is in way over his head. He never was executive to a large organization, and never had to make hard decisions.
Now he is simply lost. His “core” philosophy is simply leftism, which lost any sort of rationality other than being anti-American, decades ago. It has devolved into a sort of emotional kindergarden response to complex issues. I hope that the institutions of this country are strong enough to carry us through, because if those at the helm are doing any steering, it is steering us toward the rocks.
He could have ordered the thing and you can guarantee that the only person to take a fall will some mid level appointee.
Chirping of crickets . . Reagan was hounded to death about “Iran Contra”.
Now that Obama has his “Mexico Contra”, it’s crickets . .
Well my real point was; I wish Obama were a puppet.
At least with a puppet there is a Puppet Master with a purpose pulling the strings; someone with a plan.
Obama is not a puppet he is a pillar of smoke being buffeted about by the winds of time.
As you said Obama is an ideologue with only one thought and that is America is bad and to be hated.
Obama is purposeless, rudderless, and pointless.
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