…………When enemy action kills our troops, it’s unfortunate. When our own moral fecklessness murders those in uniform, it’s unforgivable……..
MB4 on October 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM

The crybaby in chief is guilty of “Dereliction of Duty”.
Managing the news media at home, is totally more important than standing up for our troops in a far away land.

“They (the Obama administration) asked us not to announce our findings publicly”

So, as far back as this, and probably further, they fully intended to politicize this situation to their advantage.

Apparently there’s a bit of a tug of war going on over that topic. “We were winning when I left” is a classic line for Iraq vets – I’ve even seen it on coffee mugs. Guess its time for an Afghanistan set, too…….

* If any civilians appear where we meet the Taliban, our troops are to “break contact” — to retreat.

Whatever whine Cheney wants to emit, Afghanistan was a colasssal fail for him

Bleeds Blue

You are a colasssal oss.

Now the Dems are in charge and they are still ankle biting. But now it’s not “just words.” Now they have to answer for their own actions.

And hey, after seven years of war, with a potential commitment to another decade, the idea that Obama has to meet some arbitrary deadline set by right wing bloggers is ludicrous. It’s nice to see someone taking the time to do things right.BleedBlue

Obama will only do what he is allowed to do by Axelrod and Emmanuel,his white masters who are in cahoots with Israel.Get over it,the man can’t lead and I doubt he can even read or retain information for long periods of time.That is the only excuse for his constant waffling and posturing. Go bleed all over somebody else now, you’re boring.

yea it must be great being a liberal.
Means you never have to take responsibility for your own failures.
It’s always somebody else’s fault.

Baxter Greene on October 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM

Well, yeah but you knew that before you got up this morning.

According to democratic strategist and CNN Middle East analyst (has his own show too)Bush was a roaring success in Afghanistan:

What Failure in Afghanistan?
By Fareed Zakaria
Monday, October 12, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101552_pf.html

At the heart of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for a major surge in troops is the assumption that we are failing in Afghanistan. But are we really? The United States has had one central objective: to deny al-Qaeda the means to reconstitute, to train and to plan major terrorist attacks. This mission has been largely successful for the past eight years. Al-Qaeda is dispersed, on the run and unable to direct attacks of the kind it planned and executed routinely in the 1990s. Fourteen of the top 20 leaders of the group have been killed by drone attacks. Its funding sources are drying up, and its political appeal is at an all-time low. All this is not an accident but rather a product of the U.S. presence in the region and efforts to disrupt terrorists, track funds, gain intelligence, aid development, help allies and kill enemies.

All that spinning and lying by liberals has got to make them sick to their stomachs.

Bush failed…Bush succeeded…..It’s Bush’s fault….It’s Cheney’s fault…..Obama’s the greatest President ever….Obama’s failed policies are Bush’s fault….”Yes we can”….”Oh..no we didn’t”….blah…blah….blah….blah.

Hell, the current one is Clinton’s fault too, seeing how many of the actions that ultimately led to the financial collapse were either started or accelerated in the late 90’s under his watch.

This is fun.

BadgerHawk on October 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM

yea it must be great being a liberal.
Means you never have to take responsibility for your own failures.
It’s always somebody else’s fault.

What Bush turned over was a huge stinking plate of fail. As General McChrystal.

Bleeds Blue on October 22, 2009 at 8:25 AM

You don’t even try to make sense.

If Bush’s policies are such a failure, then why is Obama’s adopting so many of them.

You want failure.

Obama makes a big to do about his new strategy and new General (McCrystal) that he is implementing in March of 09.

Withing months and before he has provided the resources to implement HIS OWN PLAN,he states that he needs to review the strategy and figure out what to do.

He had only talked to HIS own General one time by teleconference and one time in person for 25 minutes since he implemented HIS plan.(apparently to busy watching Stevie Wonder at the White House,playing Golf,doing fund raiser’s,and appearing on talk shows taking up to much of his time).

Apparently super smart Obama has just figured out the Afghanistan government is corrupt….something everyone who is paying attention has known since the get go.

Now according to super smart Obama’s White House, the Taliban are not a threat all of a sudden.

Now according to super smart Obama he can’t make a decision until the election is worked out.Sec. Gates,Democrat and Republican representatives,and our Soldiers on the ground know this has nothing to do with what McCrystal needs and wants to accomplish.

The success in Iraq was achieved before and during the process of instituting a stable government.(you know, the success of the surge that Obama/Biden said would make things worse).

EARTH TO OBAMA…defeating the enemy and securing the population is a major step in getting the government stabilized.

Bleeds blue can no more keep his talking points straight than he can defend Obama whose policies have produced nothing but failure and ineptness .

Even one of Obama’s chief cheerleaders knows the obvious:

Obama WH bought COIN without understanding the cost: WaPo
posted at 9:30 am on October 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/08/obama-wh-bought-coin-without-understanding-the-cost-wapo/#comment-2810309

They figured a counterinsurgency mission could be accomplished with the forces already in the country, plus the 17,000 new troops Obama had authorized in February.

“It was easy to say, ‘Hey, I support COIN,’ because nobody had done the assessment of what it would really take, and nobody had thought through whether we want to do what it takes,” said one senior civilian administration official who participated in the review, using the shorthand for counterinsurgency.

The failure to reach a shared understanding of the resources required to execute the strategy has complicated the White House’s response to the grim assessment of the war by the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, forcing the president to decide, in effect, what his administration really meant when it endorsed a counterinsurgency plan. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s follow-up request for more forces, which presents a range of options but makes clear that the best chance of achieving the administration’s goals requires an additional 40,000 U.S. troops on top of the 68,000 who are already there, has given senior members of Obama’s national security team “a case of sticker shock,” the administration official said.

So in effect, Obama and his advisors spent years and the first part of his Presidency totally oblivious to what it was going to take to fight and try to win this war while they went around accusing Bush of “ignoring” Afghanistan(with NATO and over 40,000 American troops there).

“Nobody had done the assessment of what it would take”

How incredibly ignorant do you have to be to go around bragging about how dam# smart you are and you have not even fully assessed the situation.

But according to super smart bleeds blue, this is all Bush’s fault.
Obama’s total lack of leadership and ignorance of what he campaigned on is “Bush’s fault”.

Typical pathetic liberal idiocy.

It’s dishonest for you to pretend otherwise.

BadgerHawk on October 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM

Well, yeah, but dishonest is what BB does.

Baxter Greene on October 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM

The 2001 recession is totally Clinton’s fault, as long as we’re playing by Bleeds Blue’s rules.

Hell, the current one is Clinton’s fault too, seeing how many of the actions that ultimately led to the financial collapse were either started or accelerated in the late 90′s under his watch.

This is fun.

the Bush administation writes a report — “writes a report,” not “does something” — detailing how the next administration might be able to fix the mess they made,

Bleeds Blue on October 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM

If Bush had implemented a new strategy, either during the election or the transition period, you would have been screaming that he was doing it for political reasons/ forcing President Obama into a course of action.

It’s dishonest for you to pretend otherwise.

Whatever whine Cheney wants to emit, Afghanistan was a colasssal fail for him

Bleeds Blue on October 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM

Typical liberal drivel.

So everything that happened on Bush/Cheney’s watch was their fault.

But everything that happens on Obama’s watch is …..still Bush/Cheney’s fault.

How ignorant.

Liberals like bleeds blue are to stupid to realize that with this logic,9/11 is not Bush’s fault, it’s Clinton’s fault.

Clinton had 8 years to clean up the al-qeada mess where Osama declared war on us and attacked America repeatedly.
Clinton not only failed at addressing the problem but actually let Osama walk more than 8 times.
Clinton failed at solving the Saddam problem that was so serious that he made regime change National Policy.

All this Bush inherited.

All this is the fault of Bill Clinton according to bleeds blue.

You can’t have it both ways in the real world liberal.

If you are going to still blame Bush while Obama is President, you have to blame Clinton for the problems Bush inherited.

All we heard for 8 years is that the “buck stops at the Presidents desk” from liberals.

I guess this has an expiration date just like all of Obama’s promises.

Actually you may be reading this promise wrong.

MikeA on October 22, 2009 at 8:43 AM

Actually I didn’t…he has not given his commanders a clear mission…he spent 45 minutes talking and dressing down a hero and telling him to behave…meanwhile he spends 90 minutes with MSNBC media to hype himself…I am not worried about his agenda now, we all know what that is…I am worried that we are losing some of our finest, while he is fighting with Fox News, and our men are dying for a cause he considers a political problem.
Right now, our soldiers should be whom we are focused on…not Glenn Beck.

Most president’s failings are realized years after they’ve left office. Obama is a failure in his own time.

Griz on October 22, 2009 at 2:22 AM

He’s a fast learner!

By my calculations…
Bleeds Blue on October 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM

Your calculations are always wrong…
Read the speech you little cockroach…the strategy Obama embraced was the same as Bush/Cheney, Obama took it and pretended it was his…then promised he would pursue it
“I will give you a clear mission,” he said, “defined goals, and the equipment and support you need to get the job done. That’s my commitment to you.” As your president so eloquently put it.
Men are dying while he is fighting with Glenn Beck and Hannity.
Obama has spent more time fighting Fox News, then helping our men fight a war…good grief, if I were you, I would hang my head in shame for supporting such a weak, indecisive, petty man…it would be better spent if you sent Obama an email everyday (instead of posting here) and tell him to “man up”, become a man, a leader, and take control of a country, and stop obsessing over Rush, or Palin, or Beck, or Hannity, or a plumber…email him and tell him to focus and become a leader.

right2bright on October 22, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Actually you may be reading this promise wrong. He said he would give them a clear mission, goals and support to get the job done. He did NOT say that the mission would be to win the war, secure the peace or any such thing. The mission, as we can clearly see now, is to hunker down and wait until Obama gets his socialism rammed through the system here at home.

the President made a promise to America’s armed forces. “I will give you a clear mission,” he said, “defined goals, and the equipment and support you need to get the job done. That’s my commitment to you.”

All of Obama’s promises, as has been repeated so often, come with an expiration date.