Pardon the Turkey

20 November 2009

I actually lost count of the number of weeks wasted by Obama inaction regarding General Stanley McChrystal report on Afghanistan.

The general has requested an additional 40,000 troops to be sent to that theater of operation as the only way to avoid losing the war in Afghanistan.
On his part Obama has been stalling any decision on the matter, excusing his complete inaction by stating that such a commitment of troops is deserving of proper analysis and ponder.

Ok, let me, for a moment, give the man the benefit of the doubt. Let’s consider the weight of the decision being such that he wants to get as much debate possible. If I am faced with such a burden, I tend to concentrate on the task and find a solution for it, or at least make a decision according to the best possible information I can get.
So in my opinion, with the life of so many Military personnel in the ballot, with the outcome of the entire Military campaign up for grab and the prestige of an entire country on the line, everything else would take second place.
And as far as getting the best possible counsel, who could provide Obama with more educated opinions than people who really have experience and knowledge of Military affairs, people the like of Sec. Gates, Admiral Mullen, Gen. Patraeus and Gen McChrystal. These should be the main actors in the matter’s debate.

On the same subject, I definitely do not accept nor consider the opinions of people like Emanuel and Axelrod as even deserving any mention, including the opinions of Pelosi or Reid or Durbin or Kerry. I wish I could tell these people in their faces that I have more confidence and respect for Saddam Hussein than I have in them.

But the reality of things is that President Obama does not care much for what happens to Afghanistan and our troops. The delay tactics Obama is using are straight out of the same Liberal play book that has created so much pain for the American Military and their families. Dating back to the Carter disaster and the Clinton regime and continuing today under the Liberal regime of Obama, the handling of terrorism and how the US Military should be involved in that fight, the Democrats are notoriously and consistently adverse to the security of the country.
Gone are the days when FDR and Harry Truman took painful interest in the vicissitudes of our people in uniform, making hard and hurtful decisions for the strategic purpose of ultimately limiting casualties.

Carter allowed American citizens be held hostage for 444 days in Teheran, only managing to send some poor Special Forces members on a doomed suicidal rescue attempt.
Clinton refused to recognize that the attacks against American interests throughout the time of his abuse of the Office was an all out war our country was involved in, including the treatment of the first attack against the WTC as a law enforcement issue.
And today we have an absolutely uninterested individual in Office, whose only goal is to increase his own personal power and facilitate the take over of the whole country on the part of the corrupted, criminal cronies that put him where he is.

As a candidate, Obama kept on harping on the “Iraq is the bad war” and “Afghanistan is the good war” in order to score points with those Americans suffering from the Bush Derangement Syndrome.
He was going to pull the troops out of Iraq, ending the governmental distraction of that “bad” war while concentrating on a winning strategy in Afghanistan.
Well, as someone else already told Obama, HE LIED!

Today we still have 100,000 troops in Iraq, basically babysitting the Iraqi security forces, mostly relegated to remote bases away from urban areas.
Today we have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan and a theater Commander, who was selected by Obama, requesting 40,000 additional troops to accomplish the mission his Commander-in-Chief assigned him.
And what is Obama response? I don’t want to rush into a hasty decision.

That is very true, as I understand it. Making what his Majesty would call a “hasty decision” does not fit the political agenda for himself and the other Liberal fools in Congress.
The entire House and 1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election in November 2010. Obama will not make a decision until he gets some of his disastrous agenda through Congress and up the American people collective rear ends. Once the financial/health care/fiscal destruction of the United States of America will be achieved, then Obama will decide for the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing thousands of Military personnel back to a Nation in financial ruin, making these Veterans immediately dependent on the federal government.

The way I see it, the US Military is what Obama and his cronies see as the most imminent threat to their regime. These are men and women who have volunteered to put their lives on the line for their country and are not going to be too happy about their country being destroyed from within.

So Obama will again postpone any decision about Afghanistan until he has had the chance to impart the Presidential pardon to the traditional turkey and after he will enjoy his own turkey, the one that he is free to eat thanks to the blood and sacrifice of those in uniform who he so disgustingly continues to ignore and use as political pawns.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”