Conservative talking point that Obama never said "win" in West Point speech spreads to Fox's "straight news" programming
December 08, 2009 8:15 pm ET
From the December 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report:
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USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Now, when are the next Olympics...? ;>)
We have all these modern weapons and we are letting a bunch of uneducated, rock throwing rejects basically dictate the rules of engagement. We should have carpet bombed them for 30 days straight 24 hours a day. They then would have thought twice about doing it again.
You are an ignoramus. Remind me of the last war we fought without rules on engagement?
Anyone who considers their enemy to be inferior and backwards, has defeated themselves.
What are you, eight years old?
War is not a video game, you obnoxious fool. And you are the last person to be calling other people "uneducated, rock throwing rejects" just because you haven't thrown a rock in a while.
PS
You voted for Bush, don't even try to deny it.
Secondly, I just have to say thank God you're not in charge. People who have studied counter-insurgency thoroughly have come to the conclusion that bombing people and indiscriminantly killing the innocent with the guilty only increases our problems in the area. I know it may come as a surprise to you, but it is not so easy to just bully people into not hating or resenting you, which is prime recruiting material for our enemies.
What you are really ironically advocating is aid and comfort to our enemies. Why do you hate America?
what did any of those three carpet bombing campaigns gain for us?
lets see....are we not still using drones to do surgical strikes in pakistan? i mean unless darth cheney is somehow running the CIA. thats some pretty advanced technology right there. i mean remote robots firing missles....must be dark age black magic or something
The media have yet to get a clear understanding what victory means from the people who started the wars.. and now they want to hear the word "win" and "victory" by those who want to put it to an end?
It is not President Obama's job to define a war he opposed from the beginning. Fox News has corrupted the main-stream media with this kind of foolishness.
The fact is there is no need to use the words "win" and "Victory" considering over 4 thousand American soldiers have lost their lives.
Someone needs to answer for the cause of war and all those deaths; now that is something the media should focus on.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/01/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5855314.shtml
While there may be something here to upset those who don't believe we should be there at all, our present troop levels under Obama are twice as high as they ever were under Fox's hero Bush, and that is before any new troops added by the upcoming "surge."
Fox is being purely political here, but then what else is new?
So McCrystal is getting the 40,000 troops he wanted.
Permanent occupation?
"Who let the dogs out."
"Go on, make my day."
"Say 'hello' to my little friend."
"I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder."
And "Eye of the tiger...!"
"Freeeedom!"
"Do you feel lucky, punk?"
"Bin Laden, I am your father."
And "We're going to need a bigger boat."
I can see why Fox would consider him a failure.
"We'll leave when we can turn over the security of the country to South Vietnamese regulars."
Yep never mind what the previous president did or didn't say! LOL!
Must See Hilarious George Bush Bloopers!
The media have yet to get a clear understanding what victory means from the people who started the wars.. and now they want to hear the word "win" and "victory" by those who want to put it to an end?
It is not President Obama's job to define a war he opposed from the beginning. Fox News has corrupted the main-stream media with this kind of foolishness.
The fact is there is no need to use the words "win" and "Victory" considering over 4 thousand American soldiers have lost their lives.
Someone needs to answer for the cause of war and all those deaths; now that is something the media should focus on.
Guess it was just too hard for them to understand.
No (respectfully) they just wanted to criticize the President. This reason is just as good as any.