Fact Check: Obama's Platoon Story

ap ^ | 2/22/08 | ap

[river rat]

Stand by for ANOTHER “phony soldier” liar....

Obama certainly isn’t stupid enough to use a story that can EASILY be proven false if in fact it is false....Or - is he?

Interesting times ahead..

If he refuses to name the Captain, and the Captain doesn’t come forward - Obama is a liar, just like Kerry and McCain...

[Just mythoughts]

What does not make sense is why did Obama get the letter instead of Hillary Clinton. She is after all the Senator from New York and has a high profile seat on the Armed Forces Committee.

[river rat]

Being the natural born (and survivor) cynic that I am ——
1. It would be a clever ploy for a Clinton supporter to give an irresistible phony story to Obama and let him run with it until the noose jerked tight on his gullible and ignorant butt.

2. Ditto for a McCain supporter -- baiting a trap is NOT unheard of in politics, hunting or war....

3. Could be an Obama "hater", attempting to bring him down with a lie.

If this story turns out to be true --- I would be shocked... SHOCKED I tell you...

[Just mythoughts]

Well supposedly the writer of a letter is real. I was channel surfing yesterday evening and caught a report by Jamie McIntyre who claimed to have spoken with the person. Here is a link near the bottom of the transcript of the report. As I listened to the report I kept thinking well we did go into Afghanistan with a fairly roughed up Clintons military. And again why didn’t this guy write to Hillary as a Senator from New York and on the Armed Forces Committee.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/22/sitroom.02.html

[informavoracious]

The people who care weren’t gonna vote for him. The people who are gonna vote for him don’t care.

[afnamvet]

Obama and his MSM marxist ilk continue the lies to sustain their persosna. Total BS from the islmofacist pond scum.

[river rat]

"Well supposedly the writer of a letter is real."

All liars are "real" persons...
Being a real person, doesn't mean one speaks the truth...

[kalee]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/22/sitroom.02.html

Read Wolf Blitzer’s take on this. He admits it’s not as Obama tells it.

[kalee]

From the transcript... So while it’s true, this unit didn’t have all the troops, training and equipment this commander wanted, and that may indeed have been a result of the demands of the Iraq war, the unit was not split up and they weren’t scrounging for weapons — Wolf (Blitzer).

[Just mythoughts]

All liars are "real" persons... Being a real person, doesn't mean one speaks the truth...

Yes, this is a 'truth'. But we are supposedly talking about one serving in the military so for that I will go the extra mile, and take a wait and see approach. This guy could be every bit a liberal as Hillary and Obama, I really do not know. Could be another 'Jersey gals' like orchestration, or a mourning Sheehan about to take the political stage.

[river rat]

"...talking about one serving in the military so for that I will go the extra mile, "

So was Kerry....... He is a documented LIAR.
So was Tom Harkin..... He is a documented LIAR.
So was Jesse Macbeth.... He is a documented LIAR.
So was John McCain..... He is a documented LIAR.

Being a member of the military does not render one the speaker of truth --- on ANY subject.

[section9]

Obama told a whopper in a very small way, and was clever enough to hide the lie in a hard to unwrap truth.

Of course units suffer shortages. Standard TO&E for infantry platoons could be 39. So what, there isn't a lieutenant on the planet going into battle with a full complement of men.

Where Obama lied was to peddle the notion that our troops are so short of weapons that they need to pick up AK-47's off of dead Taliban. That's just not true. We do that, but not because we need to. Does anyone here with any military experience believe that a First Sergeant would allow his platoon leader to go into the Hindu Kush with some of his privates short of general issue weaponry? I think not.

However, what is worse is that Obama may actually not be lying. He may actually believe this bit of liberal "truthiness". It gives one a window into how liberals think.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[SE Mom]

And the LATEST update at your link:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/sen-warner-calls-for-hearing-on-obamas.html

John Warner sends Obama a letter asking for proof!!

Popcorn.