Ah: now he's going to give us his "honest appraisal" of Iraq.
Even a tepid applause when he compliments our troops on their victory. These vets are waiting for the other shoe to drop. He's slamming the "looting" "borders" "destabilizing" "failure to secure peace" garbage... no response at all from vets... "failed to... etc..."
The vets must be sitting stone facedly, but there is no response at all to this long, ten minute or so section ...
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He is a colossal bore.
"I would never have gone to war without a plan to win the peace."
Even when he gets applause, it is weak, and must be only a small percentage of the folks responding. It is almost possible to hear all the individuals who are applauding. I've seen a better response from small grade school assemblies.
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