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2012-03-05 -Election 2012

Romney Questions How Obama Sleeps at Night

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Posted by Steve White 2012-03-05 08:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2012-03-05 08:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-05 08:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-05 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect Mitt sleeps every bit as well as Obama.

Posted by Abu Uluque on a Mac 2012-03-05 14:17|| 2012-03-05 14:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-03-05 14:20|| Front Page Top

#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."
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. "
George W. Bush, September 11th 2001

Powell directly contradicted Bush's policy statement as early as October of 2001, and Operation Infinite Justice was ~~neutered~~ renamed on September 25.

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|| 2012-03-05 16:48|| Front Page Top

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