Calling it ‘war’, Obama pegs Christmas Day attack to Al Qaeda ( calls for national unity )

Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 2, 2010 | Patrik Jonsson Staff writer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

“The reality is there are Islamists who are bent on the destruction of the United States and the western world,” says Mr. Clizbe.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Events are forcing Obama to use the dreaded word:

WAR!!!

[BunnySlippers]

This guy is ssllooooooooow!

[MNJohnnie]

And just what did Democrats, like Dear Reader, do during the Iraq war?

Sorry Dear Reader, you don't get to play by one set of standards while in the minority then demand a different set be applied once you lie your way back into power.

[silverleaf]

“National Unity” means respecting his predecessor our former President George Bush, too

stopping the endless BDS blame game

stopping the snide putdowns of the “unjust” Iraq War

and stop using the same anti-Americanisms as al Qaeda recruiters

[Responsibility2nd]

‘This moment demands unity’

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Great. Let’s start with profiling. It costs us nothing and it will be extremely effective.

[Caipirabob]

Calling it ‘war’, Obama pegs Christmas Day attack to Al Qaeda ( calls for national unity )

Obama can call for unity right after he's not a leftist, terrorist-sympathizing, racist, marxist, kenyan bastard.

[tubebender]

there are Islamists who are bent on the destruction of the United States

Including our current president...

[Tax Government]

If Obama were to exercise sound judgment unclouded by leftism, he would win over many critics. Is he capable of such a change?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

GOP Seizes on Security as Issue

[Keflavik76]

Its an election year and Obama will swing to the right.

[Marty62]

Be careful on this one.
The thought of Zero pumping up this to further erode our Freedoms is reason for pause.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
all of a sudden Zero becomes a terrorist fighter.
Yeah on the side of the terrorists.

[vg0va3]

He fails to realize that America is unified. He is “The One” that is not part of the realization that WE ARE AT WAR.

[NormsRevenge]

It's only an affiliate. ;-)

US President Barack Obama pictured in a store in Kailua, Hawaii, on January 1. Obama on Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a failed suicide mission to blow up a US airliner. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And :

Plot Exposes Fissure In U.S. Intelligence Community (Flight 253 Bomb Plot )

[COUNTrecount]

So if we’re at “war” is the “alleged” panty bombernow to be considered an enemy combatant or just a poor, lonely misguided young man?

[hinckley buzzard]

So instead of a War on Terror we have a War on Hatred and Violence. I guess if you're a 'rat that's some kind of progress.

[Freedom56v2]

How special. How gullible are the American people? Now that the poll numbers reflecting his handling of security are down , and his vacation is winding down (and he has had the benefit of sun and surf for 2 weeks for $4,000/day—who paid for that?!), he really cares and is thinking about our security “every moment.” Just amazing.

[mmanager]

He is trying to immulate Bush and get the focus on this and slip through the ObamaCare and Cap&Trade.

He really does not care. Like Rahm has said “never let a crisis...”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...he thinks of the security of the US “every moment of every day.”