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Veterans Slam Obama's Leadership On Iraq (What Leadership?!!!)
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2014 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/28/2014 12:41:38 PM PST by Kaslin

Veterans Day has come and gone, but the Media Research Center’s Dan Joseph had just one question to ask the Iraq War veterans: How do they feel about the Obama administration’s decision to pull all combat troops out of Iraq. In short, they weren’t pleased at all.

One veteran called the president a “moron,” and that his friends who died over there would be rolling in their graves over Obama’s decision to withdraw from Iraq and end combat operations.

Others also voiced their opposition to the decision, noting that there’s a reason why civilian control of the military comes with military advisers who have made careers serving their country and have decades of experience in this field; they’re there to help guide the president in making military decisions.

Another veteran said it’s a bad move to go in and help a county, only to turn around and bail on them.

With the rise of ISIS in the region, it's hard to disagree with their sentiments.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqwar; mrc; veterans; veteransday

1 posted on 11/28/2014 12:41:38 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Obama is an incompetent CinC but historically, all CinCs have messed uup the military.

JFKs and LBJs Vietnam war led to the ROEs (rules of engagement). In Vietnam, we had to do ridiculous things to make it "fair".

This vietnam vet is still pissed 40+ years later...

2 posted on 11/28/2014 12:52:32 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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3 posted on 11/28/2014 12:53:34 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Kaslin

(( IF )) the Commander in Chief is a moron...
what does that make the rest of the troops?..

Seems the chain of command has all weak links..
AND getting “weaker”...

Are the Chiefs of Staff....... IDIOTS?..
Evidently... The ones being “protected” not pissed off.. are cretins..


4 posted on 11/28/2014 12:54:09 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: PROCON
Everyone knows that the troops won the war in Vietnam, but the media and the politicians are the ones who lost it.

BTW my husband did two tours in nam and he volunteered for both

5 posted on 11/28/2014 1:08:21 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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6 posted on 11/28/2014 1:13:47 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

For some ideological reason liberals can’t understand that having a strong power for freedom is necessary for a stable world. They need to look at history and understand that with the exceptions of our own internal struggles for freedom, the US has never built a military force for the purpose of making war. Instead, we have responded to tyrants and come to the aid of those in need at the cost of our own blood.


7 posted on 11/28/2014 1:38:00 PM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: Kaslin

“Leadership”???

Where?? When???


8 posted on 11/28/2014 1:39:30 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Baynative

“...For some ideological reason liberals can’t understand that having a strong power for freedom is necessary for a stable world. ...”

You’re assuming they (libs) care.

They understand it VERY well; they just hate the fact that it’s US and not their beloved Soviet Union that’s still around. So they do all they can to undermine us, to subvert the National will and goals of the country.

Hence, the idiot in the White House.


9 posted on 11/28/2014 1:42:46 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: hosepipe

What if we had a POTUS who ignored the voters, congress and did what he damn well pleased? WE DO!!
The question: WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT IT???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2JpRw8h9N0#t=90


10 posted on 11/28/2014 1:59:46 PM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Kaslin

obama is a traitor ............ IMPEACH


11 posted on 11/28/2014 3:43:49 PM PST by zzwhale
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To: zzwhale

ImPRUNE...


12 posted on 11/28/2014 5:53:12 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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13 posted on 11/28/2014 10:22:11 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: PROCON
Obama’s micromanagement in matters of war is designed to weaken the United States.

Very similar to Obama's input in Ferguson. Obama directed the process of creating chaos and fear. How do we know? Holder's his right hand man - - Holder reflected Obama’s true position.

If you want to know how the company CEO "really" feels when he's talking - look at the face of his first in command. That person will show the true emotions...

14 posted on 11/29/2014 9:53:23 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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15 posted on 11/29/2014 11:37:55 AM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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To: Kaslin

Tom Moorer and Creighton Abrams had won the war when the Dems in Congress, backed by the anti-American lamestream pulled the plug. As Jaques Servan-Schriber pointed out in his book, Ho Chi Minh won the war on American college campuses.


16 posted on 11/29/2014 11:45:01 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: AmericanVictory

Well I said that the troops won the war and that the media and rats in Congress who controlled both Houses lost the war


17 posted on 11/29/2014 11:55:49 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: AmericanVictory

Check your Freepmail, please.


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