UPDATE: 14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes
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You must not have read my post if you think I was attacking President Bush, who I voted for. The first comments were from GENERAL PAUL EATON, not me. The second comments were from Podesta, not me. This is what I stated;
“I will not call former President Bush names for taking the time to make what has to be one of the hardest decisions for a commander in chief. Give President Obama some time.“ Try reading the post next time.
So, by the comments attacking Bush and Cheney, you all are admitting that Citycynic was right about Obama?
Why did you choose not to defend the comments offered against our President, but offer an often repeated attack of what we already know and have moved past. Typical liberal policy, deny, attack, distract.
Here’s some dithering for you “couch commanders,“
Gen. David McKiernan. McKiernan started off making individual requests for brigades, and that list kept growing.
McKiernan’s troop requests ultimately added up to roughly 30,000 more troops, a combination of combat units and support troops.
Throughout most of 2008, the Bush administration tried to get NATO countries to fill that gap, though they had to have known that would be a challenge. By the late summer, 2008 Bush administration officials realized NATO wasn’t going to come through.
So as McKiernan’s outstanding requests for more forces accumulated throughout 2008 to roughly 30,000 soldiers, President Bush sent at least 6,800 troops – months and months after the requests had come in.
I will not call former President Bush names for taking the time to make what has to be one of the hardest decisions for a commander in chief. Give President Obama some time.
Bring on the “couch commanders” that spout their orders from the RTD comment page.
General Paul Eaton said this, The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.
The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy ‘experts’ have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.
More casualties of the futile, unwinnable drug war. What a waste.
Where are the daily body counts that were on every network while Bush was in office? 46 have died so far in October alone but we rarelyhear a figuire.
But hey - while our soldiers were dying at least Obama made time to pitch Chicago for the Olympics, rally for Creigh Deeds, push for a health care plan the majority of Americans don’t want, swing by the talk show circuit, and hold interveiws to explain why his attempt to ban Fox News was justified. He certainly has his priorities straight.
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