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| Romney Questions How Obama Sleeps at Night | ||||
| 2012-03-05 | ||||
| BEAVERCREEK, Ohio — After a military mother told him her daughter doesn’t understand her mission in the Air Force, Mitt Romney questioned how President Obama can “sleep at night,” knowing troops overseas don’t understand “precisely what they’re doing there.” “If your daughter is not familiar with the mission that she’s on, how in the world can the commander in chief sleep at night, knowing that we have soldiers in harm’s way that don’t know exactly, precisely, what it is that they’re doing there,” Romney said. Vicki Chura, from Fairfield, Ohio, was one of several people who stood to ask Romney a question this afternoon, explaining that her daughter, who she didn’t name for privacy reasons, constantly tells her than she is desperate to come home from her deployment in Afghanistan. “This is her second deployment. Her first deployment, she never once said I want to come home,” said Chura, choking up as she spoke about her daughter, who is a first lieutenant in the Air Force. “This deployment has been extremely hard not only for her, but for my husband and I… Every email, every time we Skype, we hear ‘I want to come home now. There is no mission here. We have no definition of a mission.’”
“One of the things I’ve found most disturbing and hard to explain is how we can have our sons and daughters in conflict, risking their lives, and not have the president on a regular basis addressing the American people, describing what’s happening, describing what our mission is, describing what the goals will be, describing how much progress we’re making or whether there were setbacks and informing the people of America that there are other Americans making enormous sacrifices for our purposes and for our liberty,” he said.
“We will not, we will not be able to hand on a silver platter their freedom,” he said. “They will have to fight for that, earn it, keep the Taliban from taking it away from them. But we’ve given them that opportunity. We need to finish the job of passing it off to them, and bring our troops home as soon as humanly possible.”
“Under the President’s leadership, we are decimating al Qaeda and the Afghans are preparing to step up and take control of their security,” said Smith. “Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has failed to outline any plan at all for what he would do in Afghanistan and has even made clear that he would leave our troops there indefinitely.”
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 "We had a mission in 2001. That was to get al Qaeda." As of mid September of 2001 the mission in Afghanistan was larger than that. The objective was punishment and elimination of AQ's state sponsor, the Taliban. "These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate." Powell directly contradicted Bush's policy statement as early as October of 2001, and Operation Infinite Justice was It looks like the Bush administration made a (in retrospect very significant) dovish policy change in late September of 2001. Bush formulated his doctrine but days later without much fanfare he decided not to implement it. |
| Posted by: Blossom Bonaparte8189 2012-03-05 16:48 |
| #5 Second that, he's right on schedule. He dos NOT think like the rest if America, and I'll be damn glad when he's gone. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2012-03-05 14:20 |
| #4 I suspect Mitt sleeps every bit as well as Obama. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque on a Mac 2012-03-05 14:17 |
| #3 BO sleeps like a baby at night. His plan to care for his cronies and make them rich is moving along nicely. His plan to destabilize this country and pitch good Americans against each other over trivial issues is moving forward. The plan to demonize and demoralize the military is ahead of schedule. The socialist takeover of big business is in phase two and tracking nicely. Destroying everything Christian and the implementation of Sharia, scheduled for next term, is looking good. As far as I can tell he is either on track with his agenda or ahead of schedule in every area of the DIME. If I was in charge of destroying an enemy country economically and causing civil unrest I would call his plan brilliant. But then my country is that country he is out to destroy. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2012-03-05 09:47 |
| #2 ....we will be back with the rage of an old testament GOD. Posted by DarthVader Which should have been the CONOP in the first place. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-05 08:25 |
| #1 We will make no progress in Afghanistan unless we want to sink trillions of dollars and decades of soldiers into it. Better IMHO to declare victory and pullout with the clear warning that drones will continue to kill terrorists. Also if any attack hits home, we will be back with the rage of an old testament GOD. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-03-05 08:20 |