Posted on 07/20/2008 2:43:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
But aren’t the troops overstretched and need to come home? That’s what he has said before.
Please tell me this is satire.
Er, and exactly how does Mr. Obama think he has the authority to "demand" anything?
Hey, BO -- you're still just a "presumptive" nominee -- and getting less "presumptive" every day, it seems.
Like the impeached ex-President, he is already planning how much money he will make lobbying and giving speeches after he is out of office.
Two thoughts:
1) There is no more obnoxious zealot than a reformed sinner.
2) How convenient.
Can you imagine if McCain had said this???
I can’t believe BO used the word “vigor” to describe how we needed to pursue the war in Afghanistan. Sorry BO, the correct pronunciation of the word is “vigah.” That’s they way JFK used to say it. If you’re going to be “historical,” at least get the pronunciation right.
McCain = bad...Obama = very, very good. Much better.
8-10 years? He assumes he will have two terms, wants to start the first one early and is already figuring our how he’ll stay past the end of the second one?
“It is important TO ME that I get to know them early”???? Do they feel the same urgency in getting to know him? How many of *them* will still be in charge or have the same priorities in 6 months and how many will be where they are for the assumed 8-10 years?
He hasn’t already had his national security people draw up plans? Just whom is he demanding do this, immediately?
I’d say he is dangerously delusional and should be nowhere near the Oval Office, let alone the Red Phone.
Are the nominees (presumptive and presumptuous) getting briefings designed to help them from stepping in it too big time so that Obama would be aware of our plans to beef up our forces in Afghanistan? If so, is this him positioning himself when troop deployments are announced to make yet another statement that the Bush Administration is moving in his direction?
They are desperate to make it look like this guy knows what he is doing, which he clearly doesn't. But with 300 foreign policy advisors in his stable, maybe he isn't the only one who is basically clueless and wants to run policy based on ideology (and on whoever is bribing them), and not the realities of our world or the threats we face.
So he plans on changing the Constitution to allow him to serve an additional 2 years if he gets elected?
The shortest route by which to move US forces deployed in Iraq to Afghanistan is - through Iran.
It would be a bloody fight, but one in which the relative merits of the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran would come face to face with the most technologically advanced military machines history has ever known.
There is no such thing as a “surgical strike”, there shall always be collateral damage. The good thing would be, almost all the collateral damage would be on THEIR territory, one of the better strategies for fighting any battle.
The other strategy is to win, quicker the better.
And who knows, the bulk of the Iranians may even welcome the liberation. But that is not the objective. Gaining swift transit from Iraq to Afghanistan was the original goal, and mission creep should be suppressed to the degree possible.
To people like Barak, the Constitution means nothing to them.. Why do I have a feeling that if elected Barak would do something to “suspend” the Constitution???
2 + 2 = 5
thus
4 + 4 = 10.
Sounds like he plans to become a dictator. 10 years? Why not just go ahead and say “for the rest of my life?”
Woodrow Wilson mixed with Jimmy Carter?
I would say a combination of Jimmy Carter, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, FDR and other failed rat Presidents with the exception of JFK..
Nope.
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