Here we go... Bambi and the Pols will eff up victory.
AMEN!!!
Petraeous is in a tight spot. He needs to stick around a support his troops, but he also needs to do what is right.
Gates however, is just a bureaucrat and soulless.
One way or another Petraeous is a possible candidate for higher office and will be viewed as a rival by Zero.
Kudos to them. Hope they land on their feet when “The Zero” I mean “That One” makes it clear there can be no dissent.
Just DAMN.
Pentagon sources told UPI, however, that the debate over the 16-month timetable is far from over. They said many senior Army officers believe Obama’s timetable is far too tight; they say it is unrealistic to withdraw the 140,000 or so U.S. troops still operating in Iraq, along with their equipment, without running the risk of letting Iran vastly increase its influence and power in Iraq, or facing a resurgence of al-Qaida and other insurgent groups, or both possible outcomes.
Note to all Generals and Military strategists...
“I WON”
signed,
President Soetero-Obama
Thy all 3 should announce their retirements because of this and leave him holding the bag on this stupid plan. Tell him to have the key to Bagdad ready to hand to alQueda because that is what he is doing.
Then they're idiots;
this is what he said he'd do.
Give 0be 6 months to come to the conclusion that “Those are not the 16 months I knew”. If he doesn’t, perhaps some folks will be retiring/resigning.
A dangerous combination. And "O" has a healthy dose of both.
never a good idea to piss off the military too much.
Øbama’s “I’m the boss” pathology may go over big with the anti-American imbecilic left but it looks terrible to everyone else. It seems to have also pissed off someone high up in the military so much so that “U.S. military sources” released it.
The left has put a weak girlie man into our commander in chief position. A man who thinks HE KNOWS what is best for our nation and who is going to RUIN our military. Get ready.
We are in deep trouble.
Obummer is filled with power and saturated with a huge ego that does not allow him to LISTEN to SOUND ADVICE from experts.
He is going to cause the fall of Iraq, the killing of hundreds of thousands, the reemergence of Osama's legions from hell and set in stone that our own PRECIOUS BRAVE and LOYAL troops sacrificed FOR NOTHING.
Reid was SO SURE we would lose in Iraq that he said we already had lost a couple of years ago. Remember?
Well...of course...we are not losing, we have basically won, we are prepared to stay for years and help this wondrous country develop their own breed of democracy by providing them stability (Just like we did in Japan, Germany, etc after WW II) and OBUMMER is going to CRUSH all of THIS to satisfy the lefts sick desire ignore other nations in desperate need of military help.
Obummer probably thinks he can rely on the UN (you know how leftists like to pass the buck) when situations arise that require force, a UN that President BUSH tried to attach balls to - nailing Saddam after 17 UN Resolutions were happily ignored by Saddam - a man who knew a paper tiger when he reads one!
Alas, President Bush was unable to attach balls to a UN so corrupt with its own leftist agenda that it still remains girlified.
Obummer is NOT QUALIFED to be our commander in chief. My heart bleeds for our military commanders and our troops.
We have elected a man to superior to listen to advice from his best counsel. In fact, one of his colleagues at the Univ. of Chicago has said that Obummer is unable to listen. Period.
(I bet Hillary and Bill are laughing their asses off over Obummers amazing, dangerous stupidity.)
“I won. I’m the president.”
Noted: Therefore
1. You have a country to protect that hasn’t suffered a terrorist attack in 7 years... Don’t let it happen or it will be your responsibility.
2. You have two on-going wars to win. Don’t think everything is over in Iraq. AQ, while hurt, has gone to ground and will strike if you show weakness. You can still lose this war and it will be your fault. The Taliban see you as the next Jimmy Carter and will try to humiliate you by weakening the Pakistani government. You can fail by undermining the Pakistanis which you have already started doing... again it is yours to lose depending on how you play the latest version of the “Great Game”. Win or lose it is your responsibility.
3. The economy is in terrible shape because of government interference in the markets. Clinton encouraged it, Bush wouldn’t fight it because a. every time he tried he was called a racist (not true but a standard winning ploy for Democrats) b. He did not want budgets fights that would interfere with the funding of the GWOT(big mistake... trying to finance a war without getting the country involved in the sacrifice created a spending bubble that exacerbated the current economic down turn). Now it is yours to fix but don’t expect everyone to have “faith” that you know what you are doing. Some people don’t trust you because you HAVE NO EXPERIENCE. Prove you have a sound plan by showing some econometric model outputs that indicate this plan has creditability. If there is a slow (or no) recovery it is your responsibility.
Not all Republicans are like Lindsey Graham. Some of us won’t piss our selves and beg to be petted if you look angry and yell at us.
Bottom line... if you arrogantly assert your authority then don’t be surprised if you are held responsible for what now happens. Your hand is on the rudder now, not W’s.
F that. Send the gays and code pinkos to defend osamas policies. Why should our brave sons protect socialism and the abortionists. I am joining code pinko. Get them friggen out everywhere. Let them come bomb us here.
Amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave... I was hoping for the sake of humanity that Barry O would at least be reasonable and listen to the advice of actual experts when it came to foreign policy decisions.
Apparently, that isn’t going to be the case. With his smug attitude and total lack of experience, Obama will likely make Carter look like a foreign policy genius.
This is no longer a military war but a Political war, just like Nam.
Pray for America, Our Troops and Gen Petreus
UPT “U.S. President Barack Obama faced down his three top military officials...”
UPI “Gates, supported by Mullen and Petraeus, vigorously argued that the president should back away from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat forces from Iraq within the next 16 months...”
Hey UPI, you really need to get a better understanding of the term “faced down”! Men who have been “faced down” do not “vigorously argue that the president should back away”.
However, men who understand both their oath to uphold & defend the Constitution, their nation and their troops will vigorously argue their position. These men are also men under authority and will, at the end of the day, either say “Yes, sir” or say, “No, sir, I cannot in good conscience obey that order and am resigning my commission.”
Somewhere in the back of my mind i recall hearing obama say that he wanted 16 months but would talk to his advisors and genrals when he became president and refine this.
It seems that’s not the case. And even the general was suprised at Obama’s attitude. I really think the country at large has no idea who it just elected. And for the first time in my life i am fearful of my Government and the guy we call President.
You might think Onan's sin was "onanism," an eponymous English term for masturbation. But such is not exactly the case. True, Onan "spills his seed on the ground," but he doesn't do it all by himself. Jacob has put him on the spot, by means of a peculiar tribal law: though Er is dead, if Er's brother impregnates Er's widow (Tamar), then any resulting son will be taken as Er's. It's bizarre enough that Onan could father Er's son if he wanted to. What's more, since primogeniture (succession through the first-born son) was of supreme importance at this stage of Israelite society, he's compelled by duty to do so.
But Onan, rebelling at the idea that his own child will be credited to Er, tries to pull a fast one. He does begin to perform his duty with Tamar -- several times, in fact. But, each time, he withdraws at the crucial moment. It is this outrageous shirking of duty that so displeases Yahweh, not the method Onan uses to spill his seed -- which is technically coitus interruptus
Democraticus Interruptus!