To: bahblahbah
I sat in on a session with three leaders of Veterans for Obama, a group of retired young officers who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of the New Republic's writer on the scene, David Samuels. With passion and enthusiasm, these young people spoke of their hopes for nation-building in Iraq. The George W Bush administration should have put twice the resources into the beleaguered country, they harangued me - not just soldiers, but agronomists, traffic cops, lawyers, judges, and physicians. The Department of Agriculture should have mobilized, along with the Department of Justice. Nation-building? Doubling down on the US commitment to Iraq? Isn't that trying to out-Bush the Bush administration, while Obama campaigned on getting out of Iraq and spending the money on programs at home? Unblinking, one of the soldiers said, "That's what we think Barack will do." They believed in a more expensive version of the administration's program, and faulted Bush for half measures - and somehow they believed that Obama really agreed with them, all the public evidence to the contrary. And they believed in Barack with perfect faith.
Amazing.
16 posted on
09/02/2008 4:56:14 AM PDT by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: wideawake
And do these veterans approve of using the funds dedicated to the GI benefits for those who never put on the uniform, but are ‘community’ activists?
31 posted on
09/02/2008 5:36:28 AM PDT by
Carley
To: wideawake
.........With passion and enthusiasm, these young people spoke of their hopes for nation-building in Iraq. The George W Bush administration should have put twice the resources into the beleaguered country, they harangued me - not just soldiers, but agronomists, traffic cops, lawyers, judges, and physicians. The Department of Agriculture should have mobilized, along with the Department of Justice............ Benford's Law in spades....
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
44 posted on
09/02/2008 6:00:01 AM PDT by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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