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Fact Check: Obama's Platoon Story
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Posted on 02/22/2008 5:40:57 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar
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...
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posted on
02/22/2008 10:34:08 PM PST
by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: river rat
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.
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posted on
02/22/2008 10:43:40 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: Just mythoughts
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...
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posted on
02/22/2008 10:56:46 PM PST
by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: river rat
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
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posted on
02/22/2008 11:12:44 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: mdittmar
The people who care weren’t gonna vote for him. The people who are gonna vote for him don’t care.
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posted on
02/22/2008 11:48:46 PM PST
by
informavoracious
("Help me, Obama-Wan Kenyabi, you're my only hope!" do I need to point out this tagline is sarcasm?)
To: mdittmar
Obama and his MSM marxist ilk continue the lies to sustain their persosna. Total BS from the islmofacist pond scum.
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posted on
02/22/2008 11:57:23 PM PST
by
afnamvet
(Support The Troops. Your life may depend on it.)
To: Just mythoughts
"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...
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:28:27 PM PST
by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:32:52 PM PST
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: All
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).
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:34:49 PM PST
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: river rat
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.
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:48:39 PM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: Just mythoughts
"...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.
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posted on
02/24/2008 6:47:38 AM PST
by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: river rat
![](http://manuelsagra.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/gits450.jpg)
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
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posted on
02/24/2008 7:01:57 AM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
To: DrDeb
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posted on
02/24/2008 7:10:28 AM PST
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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