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As for ammo or weapons, never had any problems getting that…

Thursday night we heard Democratic candidate Obama tell a hair-curling anecdote about US soldiers sent to Afghanistan with insufficient manpower, training, and weapons, scrounging captured enemy because they were not amply supplied themselves. This, sa…

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doufree on February 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM

That’s what I thought. Maybe I was reading into what this other officer was saying, but he made it seem like his armorer couldn’t get repair parts for his obsolete “reserve component weapon” when in fact he’s using the same side arm everyone else is using.

Mazztek on February 23, 2008 at 6:49 PM

I’ll offer up another, equally unimpressive scenario. Either Obama told a story he knew was five years old, or he is so ignorant of the current military situation he thought this story was describing how things are right now in Afganistan. Early 2003, heck, I think the SF guys were still riding horses at that time.

You float a story like this… Can of Worms doesn’t cover it adequately.

The joint Cheifs will question that captain. Then they will review the unit’s log books, message traffic, e-mail, and after action reports. The unit’s CO and staff will be called in, as well.

I’m willing to bet that the Captain will admit that it was false, ir distorted.

And Obama? Intentionally Deceptive. This may be the end of his political career.

Mazztek on February 22, 2008 at 9:42 PM

peacenprosperity You see, a lie implies that he did something and got caught. Timmy eats cookies before dinner. Mom asks, “Did you have a snack?” Timmy then says, “Nooo.” Meanwhile, Mom sees the crumbs on his shirt and chocolate smear in his mouth.

Obama took that situation, from 5 years ago, provided a bare crumb of a fact, if it was a fact at all, and made it look like Bush took troops and ammo away from our troops and sent them to combat anyway. The situation he referred to was very different.

Today, you have to have your head firmly up your ass to not know anything about the military. And, as a SENATOR, he has or had access to reports from the military to have at least a hazy knowlege of the situation in Afghanistan. And ESPECIALLY if you are running for president, I’d hope you bome up. Now, maybe I’m giving him too much credit. But I would really like to think that he would have some military knowlege, especially when running for president while we are at WAR.

So, when I say “intentionally deceptive”, He knew about the situation, and presented something that would draw you to a total opposite conclusion, so he could bash Bush.

And if I’m polite, it’s because I would like to think I ma far above the Chi Hil Dish libz and dimocraps.

Mazztek on February 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM

Someone mentioned to me, “Why would Obama listen to the military? His leadershit, Reid and Pelosi, are usually convienently elsewhere when Gen. Patreus gives his briefings.”

Could someone clue me in to what is the standard issue sidearm for active duty soldiers, if it is not the M9 Beretta.

BohicaTwentyTwo on February 22, 2008 at 9:31 PM

Oh yeah– from Wikipedia–The M9 handgun, formally Pistol, Semiautomatic, 9mm, M9, is a 9x19mm Parabellum pistol of the U.S. military adopted in the 1980s. It is essentially a mil-spec Beretta 92F, later the 92FS.

It won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary handgun of U.S. armed forces, beating out many other contenders. Some other models have been adopted to a lesser extent (namely the M11 Pistol), and older, or different, models remain in use in certain niches. It officially entered Army service in 1990 according to the official Army website. It was scheduled to be replaced under an Army program, the Future Handgun System (FHS), which was merged with the SOF Combat Pistol program to create the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP). In early 2006, the JCP was renamed Combat Pistol (CP), and the number of pistols to be bought was drastically cut back.

The M9 has been modified as the M9A1, adding, among other things, a tactical rail for the attachment of lights, lasers, and other accessories to the weapon. The U.S. Marines have ordered large numbers of M9A1 pistols in the last year. Additionally, a contract for 70,000 M9 pistols was signed in 2006 by the U.S. military.

http://www.army.mil/factfiles/equipment/individual/m9.html

ROFLMAO! It does look similar to that UFO video that was posted here a while back. The one flying over the palm trees! It was real and it’s for Obama!

TheBigOldDog on February 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM

And it’s in Mace Windu purple, too.

It sickens me to hear these people screaming about “shortages” during this administration.

Amen. During the Billy Jeff years, we were always in short supply, and this was while they were closing bases and offering up early retirement to all the veteran NCOs.

We’d be stuck in the barracks during training cycles because we had no funding, no gas for humvees, no MREs, no blank ammo.

And don’t get me started on weapons, one of the most frustrating jobs I ever had was that of company armorer. Good luck trying to get a weapon fixed in a timely manner. If I didn’t have the parts stashed away somewhere, forget about it. An infantry company with only 3 working M60s….

What will the troops do here while we are in the middle of a war?

Confiscate citizens guns, keep order in the food lines and run the trains to the reeducation camps.

There are simply too many stupid people involved in this election cycle.

Jaibones on February 23, 2008 at 8:19 AM

He has certainly been offering up some gems of statements we can expect to see in the campaign ads during the general election.