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Obama Orders Boots on the Ground!
The Weekly Standard ^ | 09/16/14 | William Kristol

Posted on 09/16/2014 10:27:09 AM PDT by Enlightened1

We're at war. We're putting boots on the ground. We're not waiting around for the host nation's government to get its affairs in order, or for a regional coalition to commit first. The president has apparently overcome his reluctance to use the military, his worries about a commitment to intervene without an exit strategy, and his usual reluctance to acknowledge (even implicitly) that his administration was wrong when it assured us that there was nothing much for us to worry about.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bootsontheground; iraq; obama; obamanewisisstrategy; syria; war
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1 posted on 09/16/2014 10:27:09 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

He should lead the charge with his golf clubs.


2 posted on 09/16/2014 10:28:52 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Enlightened1

Kipling:
Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan
brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the
Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of
the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the
East.”


Stay Out!


3 posted on 09/16/2014 10:29:28 AM PDT by ex-snook (God forgives because God is Love)
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To: Enlightened1
his worries about a commitment to intervene without an exit strategy,

How about winning instead of running?

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4 posted on 09/16/2014 10:29:43 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Enlightened1

Oh, yeah? Where?


5 posted on 09/16/2014 10:29:52 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: Enlightened1
Ending The War In Iraq Not My Decision
6 posted on 09/16/2014 10:30:17 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Enlightened1

Poll numbers


7 posted on 09/16/2014 10:31:21 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Enlightened1

Boots On The Ground
(Apologies to General Larry Platt)


Boots on the Ground
Boots on the Ground

Lookin’ like a fool
With your Boots on the Ground
With the gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways
Boots hit the ground

Call yourself a cool cat
With your Boots on the ground

Walkin’ downtown with your Boots on the ground!
Giddy-up

Hey! Get your Boots off the ground!
Lookin like a fool!
Walkin’ talkin’ with your Boots on the ground!

Hey! Get your Boots off the ground!
Lookin’ like a fool
With your Boots on the Ground
With the gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways
Call yourself a cool cat

Boots on the ground!

Michelle ignore this change
(repeat)


8 posted on 09/16/2014 10:31:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Enlightened1
If Eric Holder can tell state AGs that they can decide which laws they want to support, then our soldiers can decide which war to support.

Dontchuthink?

9 posted on 09/16/2014 10:35:14 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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At least he is consistent in that he practically contradicts himself every time he opens his mouth.


10 posted on 09/16/2014 10:35:16 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: Enlightened1

am shocked this news came out today and not at 6pm on a Friday.


11 posted on 09/16/2014 10:36:28 AM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: Enlightened1

Keep in mind that EVERYTHING Barry does is for political reasons.


12 posted on 09/16/2014 10:39:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: A CA Guy

I agree and he should take the US Congress with him, ya think?


13 posted on 09/16/2014 10:41:17 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SatinDoll

There are boots on the ground in Iraq. He may say they are not there but the truth is our troops are in Iraq.


14 posted on 09/16/2014 10:41:22 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I don’t get troops going to where Ebola is. Maybe they should send his wife to implement a new lunch program there instead.


15 posted on 09/16/2014 10:46:07 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Enlightened1

I guess Obama doesn’t know his history and how the Spanish flu went pandemic.


16 posted on 09/16/2014 10:48:30 AM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: llevrok
They have to move fast before ISIS closes in on Baghdad.

If they make inroads into Baghdad that's very bad news.

17 posted on 09/16/2014 10:49:31 AM PDT by what's up
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To: aft_lizard
Obama doesn’t know his history...

Or, he/Val do know history, and are planning on it.

18 posted on 09/16/2014 10:53:24 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Enlightened1

If Oblowfly is in charge - rest assured the caliphate is a reality for the next clueless idiot to confront.


19 posted on 09/16/2014 10:57:22 AM PDT by februus
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To: Enlightened1

I think only 2 posters so far have actually read it is EBOLA he is sending boots onthe ground to...


20 posted on 09/16/2014 11:00:46 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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