Fox & Friends uses battleship as backdrop for segment on whether Obama is "putting American lives at risk"
November 05, 2009 7:34 am ET
On-screen graphic asks: "President's inaction on Afghanistan: Is he putting American lives at risk?"











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This Douchy guy doesn't seems to understand that the word dithering is being worn out.
And these "military" guys refuse to mention Gen McCrytals(sic) entire report to the President.
P.S. Bush is not responsible, I saw the sign that said
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Where is the sign on this ship?
Douchy, you should be embarassed to wear play military guy with that hat. Sign-up, go help the troops. You don't need to fight, just go over to help.
Yes, G.W. Bush did put a lot of American lives at risk when he ignored Afghanistan shortly after invading it.
Thanks for nothing!
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Untold number of people died, including American soldiers, because of their decision to go to war on faulty or unreliable "Intelligence" and out-right lies.
You people are incapable of being honest with the American people. You hypocrites are only out to undermine and discredit the President; that makes YOU part of the problem- instead of being part of the solution.
Let the real criminals (Bush and Cheney) off the hook and criticize and attack the one who inherited the situation. You call yourselves journalists and leaders. All of you bastards should go straight to H*ll.
Shocking. See, Fox is full of true patriots for attacking the President during a time of war, but you were a jerk for doing so as late as last year.
Just think back a few years. Imagine the uproar in Troglodyte Land if some journalist had asked the same question about President Numbnuts needlessly invading Iraq.
Bush did put American lives at risk, but anyone who said so was shouted down as "unpatriotic".
What a difference one election makes.
its a perfect analogy for the neo con thought process....something old, outdated and no longer in use.
btw before anyone tries to bash me for this. im not knocking battleships at all, they had their uses, they still could have their uses....if there was about 2 billion in refits made to them and whole new stocks of the gunpowder were made....even though no factory has made any stocks of powder for 50 years. truth is they had their time and unless there is some dire emergency they are no longer needed.
The 16 guns, with a range of some 25 miles, while extremely powerful, are simply no match for current missile technology. I have a hard time picturing a dire enough emergency to undertake refitting one of these ships, to be honest. Also, they kind of end up being big sitting targets, since their top speed is also no match for even propeller driven aircraft. Pearl Harbor and Midway were the ultimate proof of this.
A battleship is the perfect metaphor for Faux News - clumsy, obsolete, and no longer useful.....
We need a Faux News Pearl Harbor.
While many of the battleships were destroyed (notably the Arizona, which is the memorial) at PH, it also pushed the military leaders of the time (and, remember, the military is always fighting the previous war) into accepting that aircraft carriers were really the wave of the future. (Beyond that, with the development of more destructive and accurate missiles, aircraft became secondary similarly to battleships)
I seem to recall how when Bush was in office, anyone critizing that administration was unpatriotic by FOX standards. But now, there is nothing the Obama administration could do that these people would ever agree with because in the FOX world, the only thing that matters is their IDEOLOGY.
At least the Obama Administration is willing to weigh the options and the consequences of a surge into Afganistan. Frankly, Obama's reticence and caution will bear far better fruit than Bush's seemingly impulsive push to go into Iraq - a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Al Qaida was in Afganistan and Pakistan and Bush invades Iraq. Did FOX raise any concerns about this? Hell no.
I can't stand FOX News.
I'm sure Halliburton is impressed.