Good job by McCain answering Obama’s ludicrous assertion he made last night about al-Qaeda.
Here is what he is referring to, go listen to it.
You heard that right. We should go fight al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, stay away from Iraq, but go back in if al-Qaeda comes back (like they wouldn’t) and “threatens the homeland or our interests.” Meaning, unless AQ has plans, which I assume our intelligence would find out about (how is anyone’s guess seeing as how the Democrats put us back into a 1978 version of FISA) to attack the homeland, then just let them have Iraq.
At least he is being honest about it. Just give the damn country to al-Qaeda, allow them to have a nation state to operate from, and be done with it. That won’t come back to bite us in the ass will it?
Allah at Hot Air:
That’s a curious line to take for the left, which is normally comfortable intervening militarily where no American security interests are at stake (Haiti, Kosovo, soon perhaps Darfur), but then this is the guy who thinks zero troops in Iraq plus lots of troops in Afghanistan is somehow the magic combination to defeating AQ.
McCain summed it up in this just released statement:
Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq? What we heard last night was the timidity of despair. Our allies deserve better, our soldiers deserve better, and so do the American people.
Excellent…..the timidity of despair.
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Two plans for Iraq:
Democratic Party Plan per Presidential nominee Obama…
withdraw, hope Islamic holy warriors leave (100% absent historical precedent), and if they don’t, then make weak attacks on Al Queda until they’re actually detected planning to attack the US (absent FISA, “torture”, and Patriot Act II tools for detecting said planned attack)
Republican Party Plan per Presidential nominee McCain…
fight Al Queda with every means possible wherever they are encountered, and fight to destroy the enemy rather than to minimize attack efforts so as to make political poll points
Seems pretty clear to me:
fight with both hands tied behind the back and blindfolded with earmuffs on
OR
fight with every means possible with defeat of the enemy as a goal
Barrack HUSSEIN Obama is not only a socialist drone, but a pacifist as well. This country needs to meet the enemy head on and not, as has been done during previous democrat administrations, put its defense on the back burner. We are in this situation right now because of that mentality. Just look at the long term damage 8 years of the klintoon “foreign policy” has brought us. Bosnia anyone?
Soros didn’t pluck Barry Hussein out of obscurity to fight Al Qaeda. Besides, just the concept of a Chicago community organizer born to two left-wing radicals one of whom was an African Muslim being an effective Al Qaeda fighter sounds like an idea for an SNL skit.
That’s my man!
And, then, Obama replies today AQ came to Iraq because of the war. What utter fiction.
Obama, like other Dems, forget that Ansar al-Islam prior to the Iraq war was an AQ ally. There with the blessings of Saddam. When the Iraq war started, they were on the target list of the air campaign, and repeatedly bombed several times. Zarqawi was already in Iraq at the start of the war with the approval of Saddam for treatment of wounds received in Afghanistan. Ansar simply renamed (or “rebranded”) itself AQI.
Given that Al Qaeda is a Saudi thing, the battle with Al Qaeda is logically going to be fought in Arabia.
Obama will go down like McGovern.
McCain has a very simple foreign policy that requires no elaborate explaination.
Way to go, John!! Way to put Mr. Obama in his place! (wherever that may be).
I heard today on Hugh Hewitt from Senator Tom Coburn of Okahahoma (but don’t quote me on the Senator’s name–I believe that’s who it was) say of John McCain that John will be most proactive on the 2 most important issues that face us a country during his upcoming Presidency: the War on Terror, and the government being fiscally much more conservative (like vetoing all earmarks that come to him, for example.) Without these issues being addressed and stablized, all the other issues one may disagree with Mr. McCain on lose much of their relevance. I thought it a very reasonable and sound point.
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Love the lefties debating skills….bravo man! Bravo!
Are Americans still too naive to be threatened by the same old line that Iraq is a security threat? Where did we hear this before? Yeah right! I’d rather look to the politics of the future.
[Are Americans still too naive to be threatened by the same old line that Iraq is a security threat? Where did we hear this before? Yeah right! I’d rather look to the politics of the future.] by Steve Jobbs.
Yo, Steve, I dare say the soldiers on the ground in Iraq might have some stories to settle your doubts. But, here is a good article on Michael Yon’s website (he is there right now, btw), that you might read when you get a chance:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/rubs-at-long-last-justice.htm
p.s. a stable Iraq IS part of the politics of the future, incidentally.
We are in Iraq, and so is Al Qaeda. We leave without the adequate training of ample numbers of security forces of Iraqis necessary to fight and Al Qaeda gains a strategic and propagnda victory and a means to recruit more idiots to blow themselves up anywhere and everywhere. Iraq loses and we lose big time.
It’s too simple for a Democrat to figure out.
“It’s too simple for a Democrat to figure out.” I don’t know if you can make things that simple. When you’re talking about the Democrats, you’re talking about a political party that causes the death of a million inconvenient potential voters a year for over thirty years and than had to use illegal aliens, dead voters, and criminals to get a Democrat elected governor in Washington State. A political party that spends millions going to court to fight Voter ID laws by claiming their members are too dumb to be able to get a photo ID – An ID that is required to cash a welfare check at any bank in America.
Good job David. I was just trying to educate a few off the kool aid drinking Marxists elsewhere. They seem to forget Abu Nidal being in Iraq, the “death benefits” Sadaam was making to “suicide bombers”, Buried in the news was Salman Pak training ground. Must we go on? No, we’ll keep our heads buried in the sand. There was nothing going on over there. Let’s leave and if Al Qaeda does come back, we can use the ever effective policy of the Clinton administration and take out their empty tents with a few cruise missiles. That’ll show ’em!
Obama is so naive and will let Al Queda and Iran gain a footholdover allof the Middle East with his ridiculous policies. Singing Kimbaya with the Mullocracy and Al Queda will only make them more dangerous. It will make us look weak. He does not get it, in the Middle East, strength will win and playing footsies will ge you killed.
YEs wehad Abu Nidal, Slaman Pak, WMD sites that were dual use facilities, WMD plans and many other goodiesin Iraq after we destroyed the Iraqi military. But the MSM and the Looney Left just ignore it.
Defeatocratic war plans:
Grab Ankles
Spread Cheeks
Wait for Al Quedato come to us
Bomb a few goats andtens
Go to court, because Al Queda is a criminal matter, not a military matter
Conservative war plans:
We Win , They loose
Use every tool to defeat the enemy (except in Bush’s compassionate Republican mode, hold back themilitaryand prolong the fight)
I kow which on I like better
just shows that Obama is naive about world events. Don’t fret. Daley, Oprah and Soros won’t let him make that mistake again.