Yet another example of how Barack Obama and Democrats are lying when they say the U.S. took its eye off the ball in the fight against Al Queda, and this one comes from NBC!
JALALABAD, Afghanistan – U.S. military officials don’t talk about our secret war in Pakistan. Don’t even ask, I was told, on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan at Bagram and Jalalabad. Don’t ask about the remotely-controlled American drones armed with missiles that are now hunting across the Pakistani border, searching through the mountain peaks, valleys and dusty villages inside Pakistan for the leaders of a few dozen networks of al-Qaida fighters, Taliban militants, warlords, weapons smugglers and opium traffickers.
No, it’s not a new position. It’s not a zinger, a gaffe, a fubar, a snafu, or a doh. It’s a reality check.
We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. And so it’s unacceptable. And I will do everything that’s required to prevent it. And we will never take military options off the table. And it is important that we don’t provide veto power to the United Nations or anyone else in acting in our interests.
Obama is STILL making the same 3 foreign policy gaffes (lies):
1) The US didn’t take its eye off the ball in Afghanistan and let UBL escape because Bush was preoccupied w Iraq. UBL escaped in Nov2001, Iraq buildup began 10 months later, and Iraq was invaded in 2003. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GET OBAMA A CALENDER
2) The cost of the war in Iraq literally changes every week according to Obama. Tonight he claimed it was $700+bn. No. That’s the cost of the war on terror as a whole. Iraq (per the Congressional Research Service) cost $444.6bn as of July. For reference, the cost of all the Clinton Wars was about $450bn most of which was spent “containing” Saddam, and that “containment”….caused UBL to decide to start killing Americans; caused the war on terror
3) Obama promised to encourage democracy, reforms, peace, love, and happiness in Pakistan via foreign aid, but Biden said in the VP debate that the first thing they’d cut due to the financial crisis….is foreign aid.
Sorry to make you have to clean your monitor as I’m sure that title made many a reader snarf all over. Yes, you read that correctly, but (sit down, swallow hard, and prepare…) Alec Baldwin blamed the Democrats like Barney Frank for the financial crisis while he was on the Bill Maher show.
Ok, there’s someone out there who just snarfed again. Clean it up, and check this out… link
My first instinct, I’m ashamed to say, was to laugh. It’s wrong to laugh at other people’s suffering-PERIOD, and it’s even more wrong to do so when people are suffering because they’ve been misled about simple ideas. I mean, if someone loses a family member you don’t laugh at em (even if it was during a freak dynamite fishing incident gone bad or something similarly stupid). We’re supposed to feel empathy for each other. We’re supposed to take care of each other. So it is that I’m trying hard to feel sympathy for those who have been SO SO SO misled about McCain/Palin that they’re losing sleep, can’t think, can’t eat, and are actually seeking therapy over their fears; their misled paranoia.
Remember, these people are Americans. They are our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers. They are our friends. They are Americans, and they are in pain. As funny as it might be to laugh at someone for being afraid of Sarah Palin, it is wrong to laugh at their pain. A more appropriate response is to try and comfort them, and that can only be done by informing them that their fears, paranoia, panic, and obsession is based on political propaganda rather than reality. link
Never before in the course of American history, has a pair of high heels caused so much terror.
Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden have argued that they will CHANGE the way things are done in Washington DC. One of the things they’ve pledged to do was provide a new foreign policy-one that Senator Biden claims is different from the Bush Administration’s. However, the Congressional bailout bill for Wall Street (which both fully supported) effectivelly reduces their foreign policy back to the exact same policy as President George W Bush’s. Read the rest of this entry »
There was an interesting article out in the NYP that goes back and looks at how Osama Bin Laden escaped Tora Bora in 2001. Most of the article rehashes the fact that the US relied on its allies in Afghanistan to block his escape, and the US relied on its ally Pakistan to block his escape, but now we get an interesting little accusation about how OTHER allies, NATO, allowed Bin Laden to escape.
One, the US unwisely trusted Pakistan to patrol its border. Two, NATO allies objected to the use of “GATOR” mines, which are dropped from planes and could have sealed up the Tora Bora area. But mostly, Fury says the decision to let Afghan allies form “the tip of the spear” was the biggest mistake. “The idea worked like a charm when we faced a common foe, the oppressive Taliban . . . but they were fighting Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden . . . we might as well have been asking for them to fight the Almighty Prophet Mohammed himself.”
In all my reading, research, conversations, etc., I have never heard about NATO blocking the use of GATOR mines. That would have been a great way to prevent Osama Bin Laden’s escape, but America’s allies let them down at every turn in 2001. I believe it, but I doubt we’ll hear Obama talk about how relying on allies isn’t as useful as it was 60yrs ago.
Similarly, I doubt that we’ll see anyone on the political left recognize that Germany and France are looking to pull out of Afghanistan rather than send more troops and do more fighting as the Obama campaign expects (according to Sen Obama, he’ll encourage them to do this by offering more foreign aid, but in the VP debate Sen Biden admitted that the very first thing a President Obama will do is CUT foreign aid.)
Well, after a quick post on the movie earlier today, I decided to go out and see An American Carol this weekend to show support and send a message to Hollywood producers for more movies with a conservative bent.
Funny thing is, Michael Moore is the hero of Zucker’s new movie.
Don’t we have laws in place against such cruel and inhumane child abuse? Even lefties agree. A mind, after all, is a terrible thing to indoctrinate with waste.
Head of the Senate Oversight Committee on Afghanistan, but he never held a hearing? Maybe that’s why he doesn’t even know the timeline of the war that he’s supposed to be overseeing and wants to run?
Cry havoc, and let slip the bears of Wall Street! That’s what the American people want. That’s what (according to many sources) are filling Congressional switchboards with constituent calls at a rate of 1000:1 against supporting the bailout bill (expect some serious variance depending on the member and district). Still, ya gotta hand it to the American people who FINALLY spoke out with one voice! Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like Erin Brockovich is going to find out quite quickly how those on the left, who used to champion her, will turn against her for following her heart….instead of her party: (h/t Newsbusters)
Which is why she is currently causing a stir in political circles in the US. Although she rates herself as a leading environmentalist, she is extremely keen on Sarah Palin, the huntin’, shootin’ Alaskan governor running for vice president with the Republican candidate John McCain.
Environmentalists have painted Palin as the arch-enemy, to the right of Bush, because until last week she was denying climate change had anything to do with man, thought polar bears could go live on land and wants to see the Arctic drilled to within a quart of its oil.
But Palin is also being called the “Erin Brockovich of Alaska” and last week, on her blog, Brockovich came close to endorsing Palin. “Sure, she may be loud. So am I,” she said. “Sometimes you’ve got to scream to get anyone to hear you. So what if her 17-year-old is pregnant? None of us should judge Sarah Palin for anything but her own actions.” Read the rest of this entry »
One of the earliest Iraqi blogs I discovered when I first began blogging, was Democracy in Iraq (Is Here!). Husayn, like most bloggers, started out regularly, became inconsistent, and then eventually faded away. Hopefully, he is doing well and simply lost the energy for blogging. I thought I’d reprint one of my favorite posts of his. I’m thankful that his posts have survived the dust, and the spambots have not hijacked his blog address. Read the rest of this entry »
Since the day when Senator McCain clinched the Republican nomination, he put out an offer to Senator Barack Obama to go on the road and do a series of town hall meetings with the American people. The idea was to campaign together, face to face, and inform the American people in the most direct, honest, and forthright manner. Senator Obama refused. He avoided facing Senator McCain time and time again. Only when the Presidential commissions on debates scheduled tonight’s Presidential debate did Senator Obama agree to face Senator McCain.
Enter: A National Crisis.
Now, whether one believes that the economy is on the brink or not, the fact is that it’s been described that way by very intelligent, important, and influential people. Banks are failing. Unemployment is rising. Inflation is rising. Homesales are declining. Large purchases are declining. Overall consumer confidence is extremely poor. These are problems that need to be addressed. When people like the Secretary of the Treasury get down on a knee and beg for bailout money it’s got to be addressed. When financial legends like Warren Buffet and Jack Welch describe the situation as a financial Pearl Harbor, or as the biggest financial meltdown since the stock market crash of 1929 that set America into the Great Depression…that’s a signal that addressing the problem is more important than campaigning for personal power.
Three HUGE gaffes about simple American history all in as many sentences:
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” …He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
Elroy Jetson Maybe they are going to see if anyone has the audacity to claim the cargo as their own.
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Timothy Anyone want to lay down odds that if Obama wins, Patraeus will either be dismissed or forced out and will be replaced by a boot-licking toady? Siagon 1975 Bagdad 2009
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halfacarafe Good points all! In addition to no one being fired in the 1/2 dozen or more (I believe it was 11) agencies, the answer of course was to ….. start a new agency, thus...
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chameleon @Wow: Yes…what about the Keating 5? You should read the actual history of that case. The attorney who tried that case (a Democrat b/t/w - Bob Bennett) after reviewing...
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Anna Puna Actually the US, UK, and Russia should all order the ship to heave to for safety and navigation inspections. After all spending weeks and weeks without proper maintenace,...
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Missy @e: From the article: “I thought that was odd and made me a little uncomfortable,” said Walter Monegan, the commissioner, who later was fired by Gov. Palin....
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rawdawg wonder if America is ready for a black president, or will it show the true racial legacy of the icemans inheritance
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Missy Chadwick, thanks for including Mike Gavel’s column from the Counter punch link, his perspective regarding Sarah Palin is well worth the read. Thank God, She Has No Foreign...
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SilverSpoon Newspaper Article from 1990 - Obama Putting Down America http://www.nakedemperornews.co m/youngObama.pdf
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Aye Chihuahua @Real American Patriot: Is your cluelessness genuine? If so, is it willful or genetic? Do you really not understand or are you attempting to gaslighting us? Mike...
