Posted on 09/22/2010 7:02:14 PM PDT by SanFranDan
It starts with the front page story from the Washington Post which talks about Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars. The book quite literally is a stark reality check for the American people on who their Commander-in-Chief is and how he thinks.
The first bombshell that people are talking about is this comment directly from Obama to Woodward:
“We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”
Nice…but it gets worse...Check this. This might explain why Director of Intel Blair was run out of his position. He told the truth and Rahm accused him of scapegoating the issue!
During a daily intelligence briefing in May 2009, Mr. Blair [former Director of Intelligence] warned the president that radicals with American and European passports were being trained in Pakistan to attack their homelands. Mr. Emanuel afterward chastised him, saying, “You’re just trying to put this on us so it’s not your fault.” Mr. Blair also skirmished with Mr. Brennan about a report on the failed airliner terrorist attack on Dec. 25. Mr. Obama later forced Mr. Blair out.
Another interesting thing about the book is that it covers last summer/fall when Obama took FOREVER to figure out his Afghanistan strategy even though McChrystal’s needs were clear as day. As it turns out, Obama could care less about the mission being a success and cared only about his exit strategy.
Predictable of course. He is the man we always knew. IT’s just amazing to read somebody who was actually there to tell the story. Woodward’s book explains how the military commanders were pressured to carry out their strategic goals in what they called an “unrealisitic time frame” and without the proper number of troops that were requested to finish the job successfully.
According to Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.
And on the dismissal of the military’s requests for troops?
The president concluded from the start that “I have two years with the public on this” and pressed advisers for ways to avoid a big escalation, the book says. “I want an exit strategy,” he implored at one meeting.
Privately, he told Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to push his alternative strategy opposing a big troop buildup in meetings, and while Mr. Obama ultimately rejected it, he set a withdrawal timetable because, “I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”
Wait wha???
“I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”
And there you have it folks...The true intentions of our sitting President is not to be victorious in Afghanistan, not to protect the American people from another attack, not to do everything he can to make sure that this country is safe from future attacks, it’s for one reason only. To shore up support for himself in his own party.
what a disgrace...
Now, there’s already staunch reaction coming out, and I’ll leave you with one of the best I’ve seen. It’s John Bolton’s appearance today on Foxnews. Here is the video:
“If the book is accurate … it is some of the most cold-blooded, cynical, grotesquely political manipulation of national security that I think we’ve ever seen.”
“The notion that a President would say that in that kind of callous and just utterly robotic way, I think is yet further indication that Obama is simply not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief,” Bolton added.
“Obama is divorced from the American people, I think he is unemphatic, I think he is ‘show that’ and I think the American people have the wit to know what that means,” Bolton concluded.
On Nov. 7, 2012 I would like to see a giant rally in front of the WH with only one chant. GET OUT!!!!!!
What an insult to the families of those who died on 9/11 and in combat since. Ask them about absorbing the attack!
obama needs a war by nov 2 mid oct watch and see mark it down
My son is a Marine heading to Afghanistan in December, and as far as I’m concerned, this shithead just gave our enemies the green light to take any of us out where ever we are, especially our troops.
He has made it apparent that it just isn’t a concern for him.
Sorry for the profanity, but I’m absolutely livid.
We have lost Presidents before and survived ... is that why he is always away from the Whitehouse? On Vacation or in Hiding? What does he know that we don’t?
TT
Bolton/Pence ticket for 2012.
Bolton can kill 0bama on national security and international matters. Pence can handle the domestic agenda.
I have a dread that the “we can absorb a terrorist attack” quote will be in campaign ads because we will have done the same.
Sure sounds like he is encouraging his fellow Muslim Terrorists to STRIKE NOW! We know he supporting the Christian Slaughter in Kenya at the hands of his prize candidate, Cousin Odinga, and the MSM gave Him a Free Skate!
Weknow Obama fully believed America deserved the 9-11 Atrocity along with his avowed Spiritual Savior, Reverond Freaky Wrong! (Rev. Wright!) but then denied he never heard a word his Mentor screamed from the Altar over a 23 year period!!!!!!!!!OBOZO is a bizarrely stupid Liar and Con-Artist who will be a Blight of Infamy and Demorat Corruption and Decay in American History!
Wait 6 months.
If this is the president's logic, then couldn't one come to the conclusion that he has a desire for another attack because said attack would make the country stronger?
I am more than livid with our current ROE ... I too have a Son in the Military and a Daughter soon to be... we only discuss Country, Honor, Branches of Military (Navy and Marine Corps) and History... we avoid the impostor n Chief subject.
TT
9/11 was nothing compared to a nuclear Muslim state using their resources to sneak a nuke into the U.S. on our undefended borders.
Obama is a moron. He’s doing everything possible to destroy this country. At least Americans are waking up to what DemocRATS really are.
” ... He date raped the country after getting 52.9% of the electorate drunk ... “
How can I get this distilled down to bumper sticker size?
Furthermore this just confirms what a worthless piece of crap the Kenyan is. I wrote JFK off as worthless for the same reason.
The Commander in Chief should never put our brave troops in harms way unless the mission is vital and strategic to our national security. And the objective should be victory. JFK had decided that we could not win in Vietnam but it would put his re-election at risk if he withdrew. If one American soldier dies to advance the political cause of a President, that President is a piece of crap. Now I am not stupid enough to think that it has not happened with other Presidents but it is disgusting when the piece of crap confirms that reality with his own words from his own mouth.
If the book is accurate … it is some of the most cold-blooded, cynical, grotesquely political manipulation of national security that I think we’ve ever seen.”
He’s just a piker. Look into FDR and Pearl Harbor. Many decripts have become available in recent years.
Thanks. Now let’s compare Obama’s sniveling narcissism and ME FIRST COMMANDING STRATEGIES to President Bush...who literally suffered the almost complete abandonment of his party to do what was right in both wars!
Do I miss a principled leader? You betcha!! I have a feeling that our troops do as well. Say what you want about President Bush’s domestic agendas and/or failures..but don’t you ever suggest that he had anything but his country’s and our troops best interests at heart during our wars!
OBAMA’S WARS are with the American people and our military...Bush’s Wars were with our enemies!!
“Could care less” is stylish and zingy. “Couldn’t care less” is lumpen and earnest. Given that everyone knows what they both mean, one should always use the former.
Seems to me that in this absurd statement he unwittingly gives credit to President Bush for us being stronger.
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