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Why Bob Woodward’s New book is a stunner and why John Bolton went off (Video)
Gatewaypundit ^ | 9/22/2010 | John Schulenburg

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.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americashatedtraitor; democraticparty; democrats; impeachment; kenyanvillageidiot; muslimconartist; nationalsecurity; obama; scumbagsleezejerk; woodward
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To: J Edgar
January 21, 2013
The end of constitutional date rape

41 posted on 09/22/2010 7:32:58 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

Please accept my apologies. My last post sounded like I was unloading on you personally in some way. It was rhetorical.


42 posted on 09/22/2010 7:33:08 PM PDT by penelopesire ('You are either with us or you are with the marxists')
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To: True Republican Patriot

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


43 posted on 09/22/2010 7:34:13 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
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To: fullchroma
For what it's worth, I don't know WTF it means either. Some street gibberish I assume.
44 posted on 09/22/2010 7:34:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: TexasTransplant

He isn’t worth one American life as far as I’m concerned.


45 posted on 09/22/2010 7:34:30 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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Changin my tagline for the occasion.


46 posted on 09/22/2010 7:35:12 PM PDT by penelopesire (OBAMAÂ’S WARS are with the American people and our military...BushÂ’s Wars were with our enemies!!)
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To: SanFranDan
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.

Symptoms

A person with narcissistic personality disorder:


47 posted on 09/22/2010 7:37:07 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Shermy

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.


48 posted on 09/22/2010 7:38:24 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: livius
People laugh about Bush telling everybody to go out and shop, but it was necessary.

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.

49 posted on 09/22/2010 7:39:26 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SanFranDan; All

Thanks for posting. Great thread BUMP!


50 posted on 09/22/2010 7:40:09 PM PDT by PGalt (Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians)
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To: April Lexington

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.


51 posted on 09/22/2010 7:40:47 PM PDT by mojo114 (On to November.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Good start indeed!


52 posted on 09/22/2010 7:42:03 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Marty62
On Nov. 7, 2012 I would like to see a giant rally in front of the WH with only one chant. GET OUT!!!!!!

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.

53 posted on 09/22/2010 7:44:31 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Rahm and George at Doe's when the knife came down)
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To: Shermy

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.


54 posted on 09/22/2010 7:49:50 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Pan_Yan

love it


55 posted on 09/22/2010 7:50:15 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Yes a date to circle on the calender


56 posted on 09/22/2010 7:50:37 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: TexasTransplant

hiding


57 posted on 09/22/2010 7:50:50 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: SanFranDan

For later.


58 posted on 09/22/2010 8:00:04 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: yldstrk

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


59 posted on 09/22/2010 8:02:53 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

“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.


60 posted on 09/22/2010 8:02:53 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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