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Mr. Obama's hands-off approach to the war seems to fit his governing style. Over the past year, he outsourced writing the stimulus package to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, washed his hands of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to reinvestigate CIA interrogators, and hasn't offered a detailed health-care plan.
1 posted on 10/01/2009 8:14:48 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

I have a sneaking suspicion that “O” has difficulty talking to MEN


2 posted on 10/01/2009 8:16:41 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: opentalk

Why not ? He’s outsourced just about everything else so far.


3 posted on 10/01/2009 8:19:49 AM PDT by 1066AD
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King Obama, the nitwit, has no idea how or why the military acts the way to win a war. So he votes present, as usual. He just won the lottery and is burning our taxpayers money on trips to feed his ego. He has no idea what he is doing.
5 posted on 10/01/2009 8:21:56 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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How exactly did GWB succeed? OBL is still at large. That is not a success.

~SC


8 posted on 10/01/2009 8:24:06 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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I don’t think the PResident needs to have a regular discussion with his generals.

But I think the President NEEDS to hear his General SPEAK to him every month or so, so the General can be sure that the PResident is getting the truth of the war, unfiltered by political hacks.

Bush LISTENED TO the Generals. That’s what I want from any President.


11 posted on 10/01/2009 8:27:25 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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He’s more hands on trying to secure the Olympics for he and his Chicago cronies.

The commander in chief is abdicating his RESPONSIBILITIES.


17 posted on 10/01/2009 8:30:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: opentalk

OBL may be dead. However, the proof that he is alive out weighs any proof that he is dead, does it not?

~SC


26 posted on 10/01/2009 8:46:57 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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It was easy in 2008 to criticize Mr. Bush's war leadership. But winning a shooting war requires a commander in chief's constant, direct and deep involvement. Mr. Obama could show he understands this if he uses his trip to Denmark this week (where he will serve as pitchman for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics) to make a surprise visit to Afghanistan.

How in God's green earth can you make a corrupt community organizer into a Commander In Chief when he has no interest on his own initiative to be involved in this war??

The only thing a trip to Afghanistan will do is burn up a lot of fuel in ScareForce One. Zero could care less about Afghanistan! He has already proven this by his involvement since being elected. There is only one thing a trip could do and that is provide his lapdog media a tingle in their legs.

28 posted on 10/01/2009 8:51:26 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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Obama explained that. He said its not an American battle but a NATO one. So we should put a Belgian in charge or something.


31 posted on 10/01/2009 8:54:58 AM PDT by GeronL
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George Bush succeeded by talking to his generals regularly

George Bush succeeded in Afghanistan by sending in the CIA and Special Opps to secure a tribe by buying their friendship. Once they established that, they used that Tribe along with our own troops to create a front with the neighboring tribe and bought them out as Al Quida and the Taliban would move to the next tribe. We did this throughout the entire country until we had Osama holed up in Tora Bora and started negotiations to buy out the tribe in that area while Osama, Al Quida and the Taliban crossed over into Pakistan. Since then we have been guarding what we paid for while the tribes have spent all their money and have let the Taliban creep back into their areas. Since we don't have any more money to buy tribal friendships, maybe we should get out while we can still afford to get our troops home. Bush did talk to his generals on a regular basis, but he succeeded by buying tribal alliances.

40 posted on 10/01/2009 9:14:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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This is a troubling revelation.

But not surprising.

There are no fellow Communists in our military that Barry could have a conversation with based on the common ground of workers' struggles, the evils of American imperialism, and racism.

Victory is not in Barry's vocabulary when it comes to America.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

42 posted on 10/01/2009 9:23:12 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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Let me tell y’all a little something about myself.

When it comes to the question of sending our finest to die in a foreign land, I don’t have a political side. I don’t give a rat’s hind end what side you are on. Don’t be wasting my buddies for your political gain or to build nations, and I don’t care if your name has a D or an R.

That is pretty darn simple. No unnecessary blood.

I want to see OBL’s head on a platter, but I do not want to try and build a country in Afghanistan. That place is nothing but worthless tribal back country.

Get OBL, let the Afghans have a copy of the US Constitution and get our boys home.

~SC


44 posted on 10/01/2009 9:35:33 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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