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.
“As it turns out, Obama could care less about the mission being a success and cared only about his exit strategy. “
I think it’s more likely that he could NOT care less.
>obama needs a war by nov 2 mid oct watch and see mark it down<
What do you think that will get him? that he will project a ‘strong leader” type?
>Someone remind me why this man has not been charged with treason. Please...I’m having a very difficult time with WHY THIS MAN IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE when he should be drug out of the WH by his ears and tried. I cannot understand why this is continuing and no attempts at intervention is being made. There is plenty of documentation and evidence.<
Who is going to do it Nazi Pelosi or Comrade Harry Reid?
The key is that “could care less” is sarcastic, so it means “couldn’t care less”. And it sounds so much better when spoken because it’s shorter and sharper with those two hard “c” sounds right next to each other. “Couldn’t care less” is more literal but nowhere near as stylish.
>Sure sounds like he is encouraging his fellow Muslim Terrorists to STRIKE NOW! <
he is expecting it and preparing for it now. Did you also see that today his head of National Security Janet “the boarders are as secure as ever” Napolitano made a statement that small attacks can be expected in the United States now?
When that clueless idiot says we are going to be attacked, you know Obama realizes it. I bet he is praying 5 times a day facing Mecca for it.
>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.<
A nuke would be bad ... but they want biological weapons. They already had a mishap with a plague that killed over a dozen of them because of poor chemistry.
>Actually, if the Talib are smart, they won’t kill anyone until June 2011, If they were smart, they’d just stockpile weapons and kill everyone after we leave.<
not their style. They will want to prove to the locals after the withdraw that it was because the American troops were forced out
Obamunisim is a lie.
In Chicago, we used to say, “I could care,” meaning, “I don’t care.”
Bovine scatology. It means just the opposite of what the speaker/writer is trying to express and makes the speaker/writer look stupid.
But since it’s stylish and zingy that makes it just dandy.
/s
I didn't know which one was going to drive me to climb the wall first.
McCain constantly repeating “My Friends” or Zippo dragging out the word and as in AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND. Sounded like an F’n buzzer warning me he was getting ready to lie.
Zippo say “WE” and I know I'm not included.
McCain says “My Friends” and I know I'm not included.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
That's exactly why I don't believe he's talking about the country as a whole being able to absorb a terrorist attack.
I believe he's talking about his administration and the movement to the left.
well put!
History has taught us that we can absorb a President with no problem.
With Nancy gone, maybe even a vice president as well
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