Time To Turn Up the Heat

Obama clearly doesn't care about the troops, doesn't care about America, doesn't care about anything except hearing his own voice and the chance to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…From where he'll bring us the proven Democratic wartime leadership of Bosnia and the Balkans (US forces still there), Somalia (US forces prevailed despite being ill equipped by executive order, and taking heavy casualties), Haiti (what were we doing there again?), Desert One (oops?), Vietnam (where we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory), Korea (still there), WWI, and the fluke success of WWII won by such wonderful liberal notions as concentration camps for Japanese Americans, nukes, FBI investigations of waitresses who dated soldiers in case they were "morally corrupt" and the (valid) occupation of and continued presence in Italy, Japan and Germany for 60 years, which they are conveniently pretending won't happen with Iraq.

Family Security Matters:

Following are six more facts – stark evidence that 0bama is not fit to be CIC – which go directly to the heart of 0bama’s disrespect for the military (his condescension toward the military and his lack of trust in the military’s competency) as well as 0bama’s military ineptitude:

First, 0bama continues to assert that the war in Iraq was a mistake despite the fact that we have liberated that country, established a working democracy there, lured al
Qaeda and its allies into a hole in which much of their assets were poured and destroyed, and defeated the enemy on nearly every front in every province. And we have accomplished these things despite all the white-flag waving by 0bama and his pals on Capitol Hill.

Second, 0bama has always declared that if elected president he would “immediately” begin withdrawing troops at the rate of one to two combat brigades per month, and all combat brigades would be out of Iraq within 16 months. He has since backpedaled on this declaration because the Iraq war – which 0bama’s buddy Sen. Harry Reid has often proclaimed “lost” – is actually being won.

Third, in May 2007, 0bama voted against an Iraq Emergency Spending bill that would provide:

$1.6 billion for body armor; $2.4 billion to help combat improvised explosive devices (IEDs); $3 billion for mine resistant-ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles
Fortunately, the bill was passed despite O’s Nay vote.

Fourth, during a Democrat presidential debate on April 22, 2008, ABC's Charles Gibson asked 0bama if he would make the same “rock-hard pledge” regarding a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq “no matter what the military commanders said.” (Keep in mind, a precipitous withdrawal in the case of Iraq would be a violation of every principle and dictum of waging a successful counterinsurgency against a severely bloodied enemy with finite resources.)

0bama responded: “Because the commander-in-chief sets the mission, Charlie. That's not the role of the generals. ... Now, I will always listen to our commanders on the ground with respect to tactics, once I've given them a new mission, that we are going to proceed deliberately, in an orderly fashion, out of Iraq , and we are going to have our combat troops out. We will not have permanent bases there. Once I have provided that mission, if they come to me and want to adjust tactics, then I will certainly take their recommendations into consideration. But, ultimately, the buck stops with me as the commander-in-chief.”

0bama likes the word “tactics.” No mention of strategy. Does he know the difference?
Fifth, 0bama today refuses to admit that the surge has worked. "We don't need more spin about how the surge is succeeding,” said Obama in May.

Sixth, regarding the surge, let’s backtrack for a moment to January 2007, when 0bama said: “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”

When pressed about this comment last month on Meet the Press, 0bama said: “I mean, I know that there's that little snippet that you [Tom Brokaw] ran, but there were also statements made during the course of this debate in which I said there's no
doubt that additional U.S. troops could temporarily quell the violence.”

What?