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Obama reportedly to pen letter to Afghan people admitting 'mistakes,' as part of security deal
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| 11/19/13
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Posted on 11/19/2013 11:39:30 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: knittnmom
To: tumblindice
Why would this work? newspapers these days are just republishers of press releases.
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posted on
11/19/2013 12:37:37 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
Why would *what* work? Obama & Co. resigning en masse?
Like Clinton, this crowd has no shame, no love of country.
They won’t leave unless he’s impeached by the House and removed by the senate.
Recall Nixon in 1960 and 1974. Whatever you think of him, he could have fought like algore in `60 and Klintoon in `74, but maybe he figured it was best for the country to concede.
He had his reasons, but I wish he had fought. Kennedy and Johnson stole the election and a third-rate burglary doesn’t begin to amount to even one of the many impeachable offenses committed by organ grinder Jarrett and her trained monkey.
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posted on
11/19/2013 1:27:23 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Compared to this nutter, Benedict Arnold is a national hero.
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posted on
11/19/2013 1:27:52 PM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
To: ColdOne
I think the punk should grovel. But he should be groveling for what he is doing - and not groveling on behalf of us!
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posted on
11/19/2013 1:55:45 PM PST
by
Gritty
(You can't fix crazy any more than you can fix stupid. Obamacare was never going to work.-Steve Deace)
To: ColdOne
Shouldn’t THEY apologize to US for 9/11 and everything since?
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posted on
11/19/2013 2:15:06 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
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posted on
11/19/2013 2:20:54 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
To: DuncanWaring
"Actually, the Rooskies were doing a good job in the 80s before the American Stinger missiles made the helicopter gunships ineffective." A fascinating read is The Bear Went over the Mountain, which is a compilation of lessons learned from a Russian military perspective. There is also a companion book, The Other Side Of The Mountain, which is essentially the Afghan perspective.
In short, my take on it was that the old military adage about amateurs talking tactics and professionals talking logistics was turned inside out for the Soviets in the 80s. They had the logistics chain pretty well down, but were very slow to adopt/adapt tactics suitable for the Afghan experience...especially as you noted, once the Afghans got hold of some more sophisticated weapon systems.
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posted on
11/19/2013 2:37:01 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:11:57 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
To: onedoug
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:19:50 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and applicable across purported ideological lines.)
To: ColdOne
He is our mistake. Can we give him to them and call it even?
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:34:45 PM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: MeshugeMikey
WHAT? No way is that a real cover, Time isn’t that honest. If it is I am buying a subscription to Time lol!
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posted on
11/19/2013 5:47:22 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Its a Fake I replaced Louis Farraklown with barry soetero hussein millhouse obama...
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posted on
11/19/2013 6:04:43 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
To: ColdOne
The most anti-American US official in history?
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posted on
11/19/2013 7:28:28 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
To: MeganC
Please don’t take this personally, but I disagree with your characterization of our action in Afghanistan as a “meat grinder”.
Iwo Jima was a “meat grinder”. We lost as many men each day on iwo Jima as we have lost on average in an entire year, each year since we have been in Afghanistan.
Our military have done an excellent job under the circumstances they have been asked to serve in, especially the way they have been increasingly stabbed in the back and asked to do ever more worthless missions since the Democrats took power in 2006.
Given how they are being increasingly ignored, underfunded, handcuffed and betrayed by the civilian (and some of their own) leadership, we should have brought them home in 2006.
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posted on
11/19/2013 9:03:01 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: ColdOne
I wish he’d pen a resignation letter!
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posted on
11/19/2013 9:11:07 PM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: Taxman
This has now been officially denied by Susan Rice,
so chances are good it’s true, kinda puts Obama’s
panties in a twist. Who is he gonna piss off the most?
the Afghanis or us. We’ll see.
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posted on
11/20/2013 12:12:01 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MeganC
MeganC @4:
"Mistake #1: Going into Afghanistan absent the will to kill every last person in that country."... aka a Constitutional declaration of war. But then that would require our leaders to have the will to vaporize every last person in Afghanistan.
To: ColdOne
The only thing 0bama should say in the letter is: we are leaving, if we have to come back, we will level your mountains, and establish Gehenna on your land.
5.56mm
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posted on
11/20/2013 4:58:10 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: ColdOne
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posted on
11/20/2013 5:00:12 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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