Reactions to Terrorist Attacks: A Tale of Differences.

He absolutely did not.

You are very wrong about that.

He certainly did.

Obama in 2008 Criticized Bush Foreign Policy after Afghan Attack Killed 9 Soldiers
They’re ganging up on Mitt Romney for speaking up about the attacks in Libya and Cairo today, but in 2008 Obama criticized then President Bush’s Iraq policy just after an Afghan attack left 9 Marines dead.

“….As the New York Times reported, then-Candidate Obama criticized the Bush administration on July 13, 2008, arguing “a new round of violence on Sunday, in which nine American soldiers died in fierce fighting with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, underscored the military challenges ahead for the United States.”
According to the transcript of an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Mr. Obama reiterated his talking point the next day:
You know, was it a wise thing to go in there (Iraq) and what are the costs and benefits of staying there indefinitely? We’re spending $10 billion a month there. We’ve spent $200 billion since the surge began. Meanwhile, the situation where—you know, where the central front against terrorism should be taking place, in Afghanistan, the situation has deteriorated. And we had this brazen attack on a U.S. base where nine servicemen were killed.”
Back then the media applauded Obama for his bravado.

* Obama in 2008 Criticized Bush Foreign Policy after Afghan Attack Killed 9 Soldiers*by*Macsmind – Politics, Culture and Breaking News and the 2012 Presidential Election!


Seriously? You are holding this up as some kind of equivalence? Because it's absolutely not.

Obama was criticizing a gigantic tanglefuck called the Afghan war..in which soldiers were losing their lives weekly.

Romney was criticizing a brand new terrorist attack, while it was ongoing..which was part of an effort to help a fledgling government get established, after the successful ouster of another anti-american terrorist, Mommar Gaddafi.

It absolutely is. Obama used the deaths of those 9 servicemen as a club to beat on John McCain by way of George Bush. Why don't you quit trying to obfuscate and address what's going on now. Are you honestly ok with the Obama explanation on Benghazi? Are you ok with Hillary telling a grieving father that they were going to arrest a film maker as if that should be consolation for him? You can be liberal without burying your head in the sand.
 
The conservative reaction from day one to this was "How can we use this against the president?". Contrast that with 9/11 when democrats looked to Bush and said "How can we help?" the partisan bickering all but ceased and he got everything he asked for with full bipartisan support. Republicans are fucking scum when it comes to how terribly conditional their support for the CIC is in times of emergency and the really shitty thing if Romney happens to win is that he too knows he can count on democrats under the same kind of situation.

What did obama ask for? nothing, he went off campaigning in Nevada. Fuck four dead Americans, I've got me some campaining to do.
 
The conservative reaction from day one to this was "How can we use this against the president?". Contrast that with 9/11 when democrats looked to Bush and said "How can we help?" the partisan bickering all but ceased and he got everything he asked for with full bipartisan support. Republicans are fucking scum when it comes to how terribly conditional their support for the CIC is in times of emergency and the really shitty thing if Romney happens to win is that he too knows he can count on democrats under the same kind of situation.

Lol, yeah for about 3 days, then liberals went back to bash bush mode. Heck ya'll are still doing it, and he hasn't been president for almost 4 years.
 
The conservative reaction from day one to this was "How can we use this against the president?". Contrast that with 9/11 when democrats looked to Bush and said "How can we help?" the partisan bickering all but ceased and he got everything he asked for with full bipartisan support. Republicans are fucking scum when it comes to how terribly conditional their support for the CIC is in times of emergency and the really shitty thing if Romney happens to win is that he too knows he can count on democrats under the same kind of situation.

Lol, yeah for about 3 days, then liberals went back to bash bush mode. Heck ya'll are still doing it, and he hasn't been president for almost 4 years.

Bush had very good approval numbers and good bipartisan support until they started trying to sell the Iraq war, all that took a massive nose dive when the real facts came out. "Faulty intelligence"/bald faced lies, massive civilian casualties, refugee nightmares, unacceptable combat loses, borrowed money and the rest of the negative fallout from a war we never had to fight. Ancient history to some, a preview of coming events if Romney gets elected.
 
The were left to die.

Surely Obama wasn't so incompetent that he was unaware that they called for help for seven hours and their requests were denied.

That's what needed covered up!

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION LEFT AMERICANS TO DIE AT THE HANDS OF TERRORIST WITHOUT LIFTING A FINGER TO HELP THEM!!!

If you don't find that absolutely despicable...a failure of the highest magnitude...the most tragic disregard of the cardinal rule of military and foreign service "We will not leave you behind"...there is no hope for you.
 
He certainly did.

Obama in 2008 Criticized Bush Foreign Policy after Afghan Attack Killed 9 Soldiers
They’re ganging up on Mitt Romney for speaking up about the attacks in Libya and Cairo today, but in 2008 Obama criticized then President Bush’s Iraq policy just after an Afghan attack left 9 Marines dead.

“….As the New York Times reported, then-Candidate Obama criticized the Bush administration on July 13, 2008, arguing “a new round of violence on Sunday, in which nine American soldiers died in fierce fighting with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, underscored the military challenges ahead for the United States.”
According to the transcript of an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Mr. Obama reiterated his talking point the next day:
You know, was it a wise thing to go in there (Iraq) and what are the costs and benefits of staying there indefinitely? We’re spending $10 billion a month there. We’ve spent $200 billion since the surge began. Meanwhile, the situation where—you know, where the central front against terrorism should be taking place, in Afghanistan, the situation has deteriorated. And we had this brazen attack on a U.S. base where nine servicemen were killed.”
Back then the media applauded Obama for his bravado.

* Obama in 2008 Criticized Bush Foreign Policy after Afghan Attack Killed 9 Soldiers*by*Macsmind – Politics, Culture and Breaking News and the 2012 Presidential Election!


Seriously? You are holding this up as some kind of equivalence? Because it's absolutely not.

Obama was criticizing a gigantic tanglefuck called the Afghan war..in which soldiers were losing their lives weekly.

Romney was criticizing a brand new terrorist attack, while it was ongoing..which was part of an effort to help a fledgling government get established, after the successful ouster of another anti-american terrorist, Mommar Gaddafi.

It absolutely is. Obama used the deaths of those 9 servicemen as a club to beat on John McCain by way of George Bush. Why don't you quit trying to obfuscate and address what's going on now. Are you honestly ok with the Obama explanation on Benghazi? Are you ok with Hillary telling a grieving father that they were going to arrest a film maker as if that should be consolation for him? You can be liberal without burying your head in the sand.

Again..no it isn't.

What Obama was pointing out was something that was evident from the beginning of our involvement in Afghanistan.

It had metastasized into something it should have never been. A long term engagement in nation building with no clear cut mission and woefully under funded.

I am not "obfuscating" anything. Both wars were unbelievable clusterfucks. We can re-litigate them if you want. From the missed opportunity in Tora Bora, to the dismantling of the Iraqi Army to the near civil war that broke out in that country.

Comparing that with what happened in Libya is the "obfuscation". Obama made a legimate critique long after the war was underway..and about an event that happened over and over again.

Romney, while our citizens were still being killed, used the event to score political points.
 
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