Posted on 02/22/2008 8:01:39 AM PST by HD1200
OBAMA: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.
OBAMA: And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.
OBAMA: Now, that’s a consequence of bad judgment. And you know, the question is, on the critical issues that we face right now, who’s going to show the judgment to lead? And I think that on every critical issue that we’ve seen in foreign policy over the last several years — going into Iraq originally, I didn’t just oppose it for the sake of opposing it. I said this is going to distract us from Afghanistan; this is going to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment; it’s going to cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives and overstretch our military. And I was right.
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Rush is on it now. Bo Snerdly just gave a great commentary asking Obama to prove it.
I would like to see some military personnel discount that crap.
“A large number of unnamed military sources said that the unnamed Captain used as a source by Obama was full of it and had no idea what he was talking about.”
Exactly. Liberals have learned to live, and prosper without those inconvenient facts. Like a 2 yr old who has never been disciplined.
Thats the point. He/she was using sarcasm and absurdity.
That is true for the most part. One thing many people don’t know is that the Soviets always had weapons - especially artillery - that was just slightly larger than American made of similar size. American artillery was like 105mm and Soviet was 107mm. They could use our shells and powder bags, but we couldn’t use theirs. The same principle was used on larger cannons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107_mm_gun_M1910/30
U.S. soldiers are chopping off heads now?
You just made two statements. The first has elements of truth but doesn’t prove that the AK is a superior weapon. The second statement, about caliber and the ability to interchange ammo is completely wrong.
Michael Frazier
Obama=FAKE!
Having been a military member through the Carter administration, I often tell people that money and equipment was so scarce that we did not have enough foul weather gear or even adequately spec’d gear when we were up above the arctic circle in October/November one year.
We had to take the jacket off of someone coming down off the flight deck and use that when going up, and because the jackets were relatively light weight foul weather jackets, we had to stuff them full of cleaning rags to get more bulk in them. No joke.
As Ann Coulter is fond of saying, that is what you get when a Democrat is in the White House. Defeat, embarassment and retreat.
They also have utter disdain for the truth. Factual errors don't matter to them ... only ideological correctness.
Folks, he had an unimpeachable source!
Capt. Jesse MacBath!
Obama demonstrates his ignorance on basic governance here. It is NOT the president who funds, it is CONGRESS, and Obama voted NO to fund our troops.
What is amazing is that Campbell Brown is equally ignorant given there was NO follow-up on his ludicrous comment.
Typical liberal media.
NATO and Russian 7.62mm ammo is not interchangable. But in Afghan. I am sure the more durable AK is a desirable weapon
Ammo no compatiblo
from NRO/the corner
From someone who knows:
the Obama military anecdote was absolute rubbish on so many levels. First, on his understanding of the military: Captains don’t command platoons, Second, we don’t split platoons between Iraq and Afghanistan, not even companies, battalions, or brigades. Sometimes divisions but by then you’re talking about a 12-15,000 man organization so splits make sense. Done it since WWI at that level and even below. The idea that one of the lowest level organizations in the army (a 40 person platoon) is split between a war with 40,000 troops in it and another war with 120,000 is beyond silly. If Clinton knew better herself, she could have slammed him for knowing nothing about the military, but she’s not in much better shape there herself.
As for the substance, absolute crap. Lots of things happen in a complex theater like Afghanistan but I don’t know anybody who has heard anything even close to that story in 6.5 years military involvement there.
So b.Barak.Obama was just repeating a story that his staff told him that they heard from a phony solider?
It was a 5.45 mm round for the AK 74 and in not interchangeable with the M16.
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