[...] we transition back to a Republican presidency, will the GWoT/OCO look much different? Not by much, I think. When it comes to national security, I believe there is a [...]

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@braininahat:

Good catch at catching Gen. Jones speculating away, I can do that too:

After Obama and company gets done micky mousing around with the CIA one wonders how fast the intel will dry up leaving less captures and what we do capture, how much information will we get out of them after they get their rights read?

So, my thinking is yep, out of frustration, our military may be killing more at this point, what else are they going to do with them? Create another Club Gitmo with prayer mats, proper diets, rights to mail, phone calls and Red Cross visitors while their cronies are plotting and planning, setting up IEDs and attacking our troops?

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@ Fit fit

I think you misinterpreted my “Told ya so…” I’ve stated before, that for good or for ill, going into Iraq was a better choice than going into Afghanistan. Anyone that has ever read history knows the place is easy to invade, impossible to occupy. Going into Iraq and bringing the Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters to us was strategic genius. The best we’ll ever do in the Stan is bomb them back into the hills. Actually, the best we could do is push them into the mountains and drop 10 to 15 Fuel Air Bombs, but neither Bush nor Obama has the nads to pull that off. Ronnie would have done it though. They would suck the oxygen out of the area and kill everything.
Obama has decided to put all his cards as CinC on Afghanistan. Bad idea, really bad idea. I fully support him on this though, because I will support the CinC while he leads our troops. I truly wish he had better advisors on this though. There is a better way to handle Afghanistan and his current advisors obviously don’t know what they are doing.

Oh, and btw…sometimes the best exit strategy is no exit strategy. You know what the exit strategy was for the beaches on D-Day? There wasn’t one. Fight for the hills or die. There were no evacuation boats, no retreat, no exit strategy.

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@ Fit fit – wherever he/she is: Told ya so.

Aqua,

I don’t think so. You haven’t been around FA as long as I have so I’ll forgive your ignorance. I’ve said Obama is wrong that the Iraq war was unjustifed. My problem was always with a commander-in-chief who rushed into a war without a proper occupation and/or exit strategy (or strategery). The greatest military accomplishment in history turned into such a clusterflack, that by the time things did get turned around, nobody cared.

What most commentors here were saying was that Obama was planning a disastrous cut and run. I said there was no way I would vote for Obama if that were true and pointed out Obama’s consistant caveat of being “as careful as we were careless” in the past. I was right, they were wrong: “Told ya so…”

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Lol…everyone loves the photo.

I have another photo, taken at a different angle, by an AP photographer of Obama’s shadow cast over the copy of the Constitution.

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No caption necessary, not with those big ass dumbo ears!

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Save this picture everyone — it may disappear like other pictures, articles, biographical facts.

Would be a good 2010 – vote the libs/marxists-out-of-office campaign poster — no caption necessary!

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A commenter at ABC on Jake Tapper’s story asked how anyone could know the dead people were terrorists. I answered, “Because they’re dead… DUH!” Sure, it was a flip answer. But, maybe closer to true.

Bush was very hesitant to order strikes against high value targets when women and children were near. Under Obama, women and children are frequently killed along with the target. Could it be that Obama is rolling up his score because he doesn’t have the pesky morals problem? Killing everyone who’s home eliminates anyone who can say, ‘No, that wasn’t the guy. He only looked liked the guy from 25,000ft.’ So, that leaves Obama’s people free to say everyone killed in the attack was a terrorist because they are dead because we only kill terrorists and those people are dead becau…. well, you get the picture. Frankly, I have seen no definitive sign Obama has morals, scuples, or ethics.

OTH, in this _____ War, that may not be a bad thing.

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@ Fit fit – wherever he/she is: Told ya so.

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An Obama “shadow” on the “Constitution”…. couldn’t get more appropriate a description than that. Classic photo, in an appalling sort of way. Don’t think the caption writer realized the irony of his words.

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