The Dear Dope’s hand picked commander in Afghanistan has asked for 40,000 reinforcements. Well, lemmesee, according to the Dear Dope’s campaign promises, we’re supposed be out of Iraq by now. Were that true, it would free up 120,000 or so combat hardened troops to finish the job in Afghanistan – the war that the Dope called the “right war.” But alas, Arugula Boy didn’t get us out of Iraq.
According to the Dope’s own campaign promises, G’itmo is supposed to be closed by now. That would free up a couple of thousand troops for the Vacillator-in-Chief to shift over to Afghanistan. But alas, closing G’itmo proved even more difficult for Dopey Doppus than an ACON rep registering the entire cast of Snow White and Seven Dwarfs to vote in Detroit.
So Dopus Maximus now says, “well we gotta wait for the results of the Afghan run-off election.” Hmmm. Really? Why? Which one of the current candidates involved in the run-off are we NOT going to support if they win? If we are going to support the Afghan government irrespective of who happens to head it, shouldn’t we be implementing the commander’s decision sooner rather than later? Or are military decisions like choosing the White House dog? You gaotta wait 6 months and carefully poll various breeds. Then of course you have to find someone to donate the dog.
Heck as sit here and think about it, every dog I’ve ever been associated with has been thrust upon me with temperament and “does it crap in the house” being only considerations. If a guy can’t walk through the pound and pick out a dog in about 30 min, he’s probably not up the weightier decisions of life and death associated with war.
So the chief vacillator vacillates polling Afghan reinforcements and begging NATO to donate the troops.
The Dope waits wringing his hands and while declaring war on any of is own countrymen who dare question his greatness. And hell when the going gets really rough blame Bush. “Well you wouldn’t believe the mess the Bush White House left me with regard to choosing a dog. And if you think that’s bad, Afghanistan is much worse.”
Well former VP Cheney laid waste to Wimpy the Dope and his team of clueless hatchet men more interested in defining “what’s news” than giving a hand picked war commander the assets he has requested to implement the strategy The Dope asked him to implement.
Cheney:
“Recently, President Obama’s advisors have decided that it’s easier to blame the Bush Administration than support our troops. This weekend they leveled a charge that cannot go unanswered. The President’s chief of staff claimed that the Bush Administration hadn’t asked any tough questions about Afghanistan, and he complained that the Obama Administration had to start from scratch to put together a strategy.
“In the fall of 2008, fully aware of the need to meet new challenges being posed by the Taliban, we dug into every aspect of Afghanistan policy, assembling a team that repeatedly went into the country, reviewing options and recommendations, and briefing President-elect Obama’s team. They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt. The new strategy they embraced in March, with a focus on counterinsurgency and an increase in the numbers of troops, bears a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them. They made a decision – a good one, I think – and sent a commander into the field to implement it.
“Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.”
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