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White House Responds to Cheney Criticism
First, it's important that the substantive context be clear: for seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq – a country that had no al Qaeda presence before our invasion – Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States. Meanwhile, al Qaeda also regenerated in places like Yemen and Somalia, establishing new safe-havens that have grown over a period of years. It was President Obama who finally implemented a strategy of winding down the war in Iraq, and actually focusing our resources on the war against al Qaeda – more than doubling our troops in Afghanistan, and building partnerships to target al Qaeda's safe-havens in Yemen and Somalia. And in less than one year, we have already seen many al Qaeda leaders taken out, our alliances strengthened, and the pressure on al Qaeda increased worldwide.
To put it simply: this president is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the president.
Second, the former vice president makes the clearly untrue claim that the president – who is this nation's commander in chief – needs to realize we are at war. I don't think anyone realizes this very hard reality more than President Obama. In his inaugural, the president said "our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." In a recent speech, Assistant to the President for Terrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan said "Instead, as the president has made clear, we are at war with al Qaeda, which attacked us on 9/11 and killed 3,000 people. We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda. These are the terrorists we will destroy; these are the extremists we will defeat." At West Point, the President told the nation why it was "in our vital national interest" to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan, adding that as commander in chief, "I see firsthand the terrible wages of war." And at Oslo, in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, the president said, "We are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land."
There are numerous other such public statements that explicitly state we are at war. The difference is this: President Obama doesn't need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last administration – we are not at war with a tactic ("terrorism"), we at war with something that is tangible: al Qaeda and its violent extremist allies. And we will prosecute that war as long as the American people are endangered.
White House Responds to Cheney Criticism - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
The Bottomline is that the MARXIST Obami Salami dithered for OVER 3 MONTHS whilst our brave lads were vulnerable to the point of MORTAL DANGER with not enough troops to safeguard their flanks in Afghanistan......this because The MARXIST Obami Salami didn't want to offend his CODE PINK EXTREMIST LEFT POLITICAL MAIN BASE and extreme lefties like Howard Dean.
So don't give me the BULLSHIT that the PHONEY Muslim PC Protecting Stooge Obami Salami is a "Man of Action".
Iraq was a Righteous War since The Baghdad Psycho was more of an immediate threat to the Vital STRATEGIC Interests of America than Afghanistan (which was, at that time contained). Without this Baghdad Psycho's removal we'd have TWO PSYCHOS armed with NUKES in the Mid East to deal with.
Note that Iraq, with the FOURTH LARGEST ARMY in the World was defeated by Dubya in TWENTY TWO DAYS !!!
Mission Accomplished.
So it seemed.
But the HYPOCRITCAL and TREACHEROUS DEMS realizing that in the upcoming Elections their chances for election were doomed.....made a 180 degree about face......and by exaggerating every glitch in the mop up operations with the 24/7 Lib Controlled National Media began a VEHEMENT and TREACHEROUS attack on Bush......sending a LOUD & CLEAR message to IRAN and the other IslamoFascist Swine to have them start the IRAQI QUAGMIRE.....and the more the Iranians and Islamofascist caused problems THE MORE THE HYPOCRITICAL and TREACHEROUS DEMS attacked Bush.
Iran and Iraq just fought a BRUTAL WAR against each other which ended in a STALEMATE with MORE than a MILLION men killed.....YET BUSH DEFEATED IRAQ IN TWENTY TWO DAYS.......
DO YOU THINK IRAN WOULD HAVE HAD THE BALLS TO ATTACK AMERICA THE MIGHTIEST NATION ON THIS PLANET which just slaughtered their Mightiest Enemy in TWENTY TWO DAYS.....WITHOUT THE LOUD & CLEAR MESSAGE FROM THE HYPOCRITICAL and TREACHEROUS DEMS that they needed IRAN and the Islamofascist Swine TO GAIN THEM A VICTORY in THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS ?!?!?
So, you can cut out the BULLSHIT about the "Man of Action" Bullshit Artiste MARXIST Obami Salami.....the TWENTY YEAR parishioner of the Black Racist Whackjob "Goddamn America"WRIGHT's Cathedral of Hate....and friend and fellow employee of the Criminal Enterprise ACORN, Bill Ayers, The UNREPENTANT HOMICIDAL and MANIACAL COMMIE/TERRORIST from whose home your "MESSIAH" kicked off his Senatorial Campaign.
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