Posted on 09/09/2009 4:58:52 PM PDT by Starman417
Just another reason he is ineligible to be CinC.....
Nothing is sadder than Marines dying for this worthless POS.
I’m sorry to say that this will be increasingly common.
Obama’s rules of engagement are a return to micromanagement of a kind that characterized the LBJ years in Vietnam.
Our troops are put in an impossible position, basically prevented from defending themselves. And if they DO defend themselves, they put themselves in danger of a courtmartial.
As Eisenhower told JFK, don’t start a war unless you intend to win it. If you don’t want to do the things necessary to win it, then it would be better to pull out. Otherwise, we are sacrificing the lives of our troops for nothing.
The tallies now know that we are not allowed to strike the villages from the air - so they now will dig in and use them for their base of operations, and they know that a ‘flyby to scare them’ is as empty as the head of bobble head...
He is a murderer - and a muslim sympathizer - and a traitor and -
Pssst! Troops! If McChrist-al has banned bombing, call for the artillery. Arty used to be the poor man’s air force, bringing rubble to big trouble. Of course, they prolly don’t have any light artillery anywhere in ‘Stan. Rumsfeldt did away with all the light artillery for tracked 155 MM artillery. The 105MM was the Infantry’s best friend in my day.
where are all the anti war protesters?
He won't let our troops have air cover - and in the valleys of the Kunar, that is deadly.
August was the deadliest month of the war for our troops and Sept is following suit.
Where is the MSM NOW!
Dear Leader is more concerned about killing enemies than our troops = muzzie sympathizer and Traitor in Chief. I repeat: damn him to hell
LBJbama is making Vietnam II
Pray for America and Our Troops
Traitor in Chief has given the tallies the green light - “fire at will on our troops - and I won't let them defend themselves.”
tallies learn fast///
Zero’s hero, Jimmie Carter, established really stupid rules of engagement for our Navy in the Med—our pilots could not return fire on aircraft that fired on them. Libyan MIG pilots made great sport of coming up and taking a shots at US Navy fighters, then turning tail and heading back into Libyan territory, knowing that the US Navy pilots were prohibited from firing back. Fortunately, the election of Ronald Reagan brought common sense back into play and he immediately threw out the coward Carter’s rules of engagement. Much to the surprise of the Libyans, their first encounter with the USN after January 20, 1981, resulted in 5 or 6 Libyan jets being splashed. Not surprisingly, the Libyan harassment immediately stopped.
Tell me about it, when I joined the National Guard 9 years ago it was a FA unit I went to. I saw it transition to an infantry unit, along with the rest of the state — particularly disturbing considering that MOST (~70%) of the Army’s “tubes and rotars” are National Guard, and the Guard basically got rid of all their arty — I always thought it was a mistake to get rid of it all.
Why are we there? Taliban and Al Qaeda have base of operations in Pakistan. Iran is supplying them with sophisticated IEDs. Afghanistan remains #1 producer of poppy crop for world’s heroin. Karzai has no power outside Kabul. Why are we sacrificing our bravest?
This is absolutely ridiculous!!! Heads should roll. If we are so stupid that we send our troops out without adequate air and artillery support, these commanders should be immediately relieved.
Lets use our military effectively. For the persons who now sit in the seats of power, lets draw the proper conclusions.
“’We’re pinned down:’ 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335142/posts
Pingonya
Let's see. -A president leaves troops without air cover. Troops die. -Said same president pulls the rug from the intelligence community.
I wonder what happened to the last president who did that?
That would be clinton. And NOTHING happened to him.
You know, I think I just can’t get more outraged. But I KNOW tomorrow something will happen that will be worse. Trying toget my grip back. It ain’t easy.
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