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Obama: US soldiers in Afganistan so poorly equipped they use Taliban equiment.

Posted on 02/22/2008 6:20:46 AM PST by HD1200

Tuned into the debate last night and this idiot Obama proved again does not have a clue.

He made the statement that US platoons are going short manned to Afganistan because a portion of them are being sent to Iraq. Then he said our soldiers in Afganistan are so poorly equipped they are using captured Taliban munitions!

I can guarantee you if this was the case the media would have been all over it months or years ago. Who is going to challenge him on this?


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To: Lumper20

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html


61 posted on 02/22/2008 7:01:21 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Doogle

how about the SPIKE in hate crimes since this immigration debate started.....hahahhaahhahaha...

what a liberal toad.

I’m still voting for him in the primary..... Go Obamalamdingdong....!!!!


62 posted on 02/22/2008 7:05:04 AM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: HD1200

Shhhhhh. Let him bump off Hillary. THEN we’ll let the people discover what an ignorant, empty suit he is.


63 posted on 02/22/2008 7:08:40 AM PST by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: HD1200

Remember the 40,000 “Body bags”?


64 posted on 02/22/2008 7:12:54 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Doogle

Wait a minute. He may have gotten his information from a memo that was included with his cash contribution from the Taliban.


65 posted on 02/22/2008 7:17:04 AM PST by Eurale
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To: HD1200

Has this moron ever read SUN TZU ON THE ART OF WAR

Chapter 2 Item 15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy’s provisions is equivalent to twenty of one’s own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one’s own store.


66 posted on 02/22/2008 7:17:06 AM PST by lcurto681 (Osama Abamornon)
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To: HD1200

DNC in America so poorly equipped they use Communist equiment.


67 posted on 02/22/2008 7:18:23 AM PST by NoLibZone (If the Clinton years were so great, why is Osama doing so well?)
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To: LottieDah

Thank you very much. We cannot let this bafoon get into the White House. If he does we will be suseptible to attack for the next millenia.


68 posted on 02/22/2008 7:20:42 AM PST by crazydad
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To: kenmcg
No big McCain fan here......but no question our troops would be better served with McCain as Commander In chief than nitwits Obama or Clinton.

I second that....

69 posted on 02/22/2008 7:22:44 AM PST by gunservative
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To: kenmcg
Has McCain responded to this today?
70 posted on 02/22/2008 7:23:15 AM PST by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: massgopguy

“Barack has spent hours studying military tactics using Battleship, Stratego and Risk.”

LOL! :)


71 posted on 02/22/2008 7:23:15 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: massgopguy

“Barack has spent hours studying military tactics using Battleship, Stratego and Risk.”

Don’t forget those GI Joe cartoons.


72 posted on 02/22/2008 7:24:17 AM PST by Larebil (My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
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To: Slings and Arrows
This does not change the fact that Barack Obama is an idiot

And a liar.

73 posted on 02/22/2008 7:24:47 AM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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To: HD1200

As he said from a cave eating canned food.


74 posted on 02/22/2008 7:24:54 AM PST by bmwcyle (I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
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To: HD1200

If the McCain people are awake they’ll point out the hypocrats were busily undermining the troops and despeately trying to defund our troops all along.

Even though this isn’t true, it IS the hypocrats goal!


75 posted on 02/22/2008 7:25:03 AM PST by tpanther
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To: HD1200
Typical Taliban ammunition - the 7.62mm x 39mm - won’t work in any US weapons, NONE. It’s too stupid to consider but will likely work as boob bait for Barak backers.
76 posted on 02/22/2008 7:28:21 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Obama: voted a more liberal record than Ted Kennedy.)
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To: mquinn

transcript below:

OBAMA: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.

OBAMA: And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.

OBAMA: Now, that’s a consequence of bad judgment. And you know, the question is, on the critical issues that we face right now, who’s going to show the judgment to lead? And I think that on every critical issue that we’ve seen in foreign policy over the last several years — going into Iraq originally, I didn’t just oppose it for the sake of opposing it. I said this is going to distract us from Afghanistan; this is going to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment; it’s going to cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives and overstretch our military. And I was right.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/debate.transcript/index.html


77 posted on 02/22/2008 7:29:33 AM PST by HD1200
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To: windsorknot

George McGovern was a decorated Army Air Corps veteran of WWII. Obama’s only military experience is picketing the ROTC building.


78 posted on 02/22/2008 7:34:31 AM PST by reg45
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To: HD1200

He’s just stuck in the past when the US troops in Nam had to pick up AK-47s because the M-16s were such shyt. Come to think of it they are still better off picking up AKs.


79 posted on 02/22/2008 7:40:37 AM PST by Seruzawa (A skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.)
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To: massgopguy

LOL I thought he might be more of a Wii guy myself...

He seems to be able to handle the little things in life.


80 posted on 02/22/2008 7:45:27 AM PST by imintrouble
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