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.
Please accept my apologies. My last post sounded like I was unloading on you personally in some way. It was rhetorical.
que the picture of Italy’s Savior “Mussolini” and his Girlfriend hanging by their ankles... severely beaten and very displayed
When it happens here at home to 0 ... I just want the Beer Concession or the Cane Rental
TT
He isn’t worth one American life as far as I’m concerned.
Changin my tagline for the occasion.
A person with narcissistic personality disorder:
I don’t want to be absorbed and I don’t want my children to be absorbed.
I pay taxes for the government to protect me from being absorbed. You can do it if you want, but I don’t want a Beslin at my school.
Thank you for making tht observation -- which is 100% dead-on.
People should recall that we had a recession going on at the time...the Bush tax cuts had yet to make an impact...and for five-seven days after 9/11 nobody bought anything.
Restaurant parking lots were empty. Shopping malls were vacant. Retailers were dying. Layoffs were already happening.
Laugh if you will, but it needed to be said. And Bush said it.
Thanks for posting. Great thread BUMP!
Pray with the families that have men and woman serving in our Armed Forces.
We must work hard for November win. Then to win the Presidency. O is outrageous and dangerous.
Good start indeed!
After the 2000 election people where chanting at the Naval Observatory to Al Bore to "Get out of Cheney's house!" I would like to see a "Get out of Sarah's house" on that day.
Zero has the same respect for life that all communists have, which is nil. Life is cheap to them, especially when it’s not their life.
love it
Yes a date to circle on the calender
hiding
For later.
Dang it ... I agree with a Lawyer (rare but it happens)
Recently I have found that divorced Lawyers and I have much more in common than I would have ever believed, now that I’m getting divorced. It’s also amazing how much they have in common with the soon to be X Wife and my Bank account... small world. I never knew.
(serious ... jus kiddn ... messin w/ya)
TT
“JFK had decided that we could not win in Vietnam but it would put his re-election at risk if he withdrew”.
I think you might want to re-think that. Just three weeks before Kenndy got assassinated, he had directed the Joints Chief of Staff to stand down our effort in Vietnam and put a halt to the war effort there. His direct quote was that “American boys should not be doing what Vietnamese boys should be doing in Southeast Asia”. After his demise, LBJ went full steam ahead and the rest is history.
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