Foreign Policy
Mexican officials want US officials behind Fast and Furious tried in Mexico.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ircWNLcFBVI
Mexico is pissed….and with good reason. The more that is known about the Fast and Furious fiasco, the more apparent it is that the US screwed up and allowed 2500 assault rifles and revolvers to be transported into Mexico by thugs. These guns were supposed to be traced to high level mob-type gun traffickers (and drug cartel members) but for some reason….ATF agents just sat back and let the bad guys be bad guys and in the process, numerous people were murdered with these weapons (including a US border patrol agent…RIP Brian Terry ). Now Mexican officials want the ones responsible for Operation Fast and Furious (aka Project Gunrunner) to not only be tried in the US but also in Mexico.
Ay caramba! This could get very interesting…especially with 2012 right around the corner.
The investigation should go as far up as Obama himself but we all know that “The One” is bubble-wrapped and probably won’t be touched. At the very least, Eric Holder’s name should be listed at the top of the page of usual suspects. Holder remains eerily silent lately….trying to fly below the radar. I bet he hasn’t slept much lately.
Will Obama throw Holder under the bus? My guess is yes.
I hope Holder likes tequila and tacos.
White House lied about the Afghanistan plan?
General John Allen
I know that this won’t come as a surprise to anyone but…the White House has been caught in a blatant lie in regards to the plan to remove troops from Afghanistan. Lt. General John Allen testified yesterday under oath to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the plan that Obama chose was not one of the options presented to him by General Petraeus. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard was quick to pick up on this.
(Weekly Standard) In response to questioning from Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Allen testified that Obama’s decision on the pace and size of Afghanistan withdrawals was “a more aggressive option than that which was presented.”
Graham pressed him. “My question is: Was that a option?”
Allen: “It was not.”
But wait….hasn’t Obama and his administration been telling us that the plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was within the range of options presented to him by military advisors? Every quote from White House senior officials says that Obama’s plan falls within the range of options presented to him by General Petraeus yet the new top commander in Afghanistan has said (under oath) that Obama’s plan was not one of the options.
Not only was Obama’s plan not one of the options but top military officials are very worried about the specifics of the timeline.
“Among their greatest concerns: the White House’s insistence that the 2012 drawdown of the remaining 23,000 surge troops be completed by September. That means that drawdown will have to begin in late spring or early summer—a timeline for which there exists no serious military rationale. Afghanistan’s “fighting season” typically lasts from April through November. (Last year, it continued into December because of warmer than usual temperatures.) So if the White House were to go forward with its policy as presented, the largest contingent of surge troops would be withdrawn during the heart of next year’s fighting season.”
Hmmmm…the military is concerned about withdrawing troops by September 2012 because it’s a security risk for our troops but Obama doesn’t care about that. He only cares about being re-elected in November of 2012. The GOP should be howling over this little detail.
It’s so disgusting to me that Obama would put politics before the well being of our troops.
November 2012 can’t get here soon enough.
Obama’s anti-surge
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZOC55TWME
Who watched the speech last night? Did you notice how many times Obama said the word “I”? Did you notice that he never mentioned General David Petraeus? I know that he is Commander in Chief but his words led you to believe that he’s had no help in making decisions on Afghanistan. I was listening to a military expert on Fox News this morning…a person who helped put together the surge policy in Iraq….and it’s his opinion that withdrawing a portion of the troops by September of 2012 would be a big mistake. The heaviest fighting in Afghanistan occurs during the month of September so this will leave the remaining troops vulnerable. It could jeopardize any gains we have made because of the surge.
Don’t you love the timeline? September 2012….conveniently just before the elections.
Am I being too cynical?
Obama…a passing fad in the college world?
Where are all my fans?
Sort of like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Miami Vice or parachute pants….Obama may just be a passing fad for some young voters…specifically young white college students… this according to John Vinocur of the New York Times, who did a story about a symposium at Oberlin College titled “Oberlin-based Perspectives on the Obama Presidency”. According to Vinocur, Oberlin is a very liberal college campus…more so than most but the young enthusiastic little liberals are cooling to “The One”.
“These days, many of the themes of Mr. Obama’s early speech-making that could well stir the campus are gone from the president’s frame of reference.
Potentially pleasing to his campus activist supporters, his initial areas of focus — a world without nuclear weapons, or an apologetic refusal to hold up U.S. democracy as a model for the Arab and Islamic world — have been scaled down as presidential hallmarks.
The realities of Mr. Obama’s re-election next year are 9.1 percent unemployment, as opposed to 7.6 percent when he took office, and prices for houses that have fallen to 33 percent below their 2006 levels, decimating millions of families’ notional wealth.”
Vinocur also noted that most college students just flat-out don’t care that “Obama got Osama”. In fact, they were asking questions like…
“Why were we shooting an unarmed man” and “violating the sovereignty of a foreign nation”?
The reality? These kids were 18, 19 and 20 year old young first time voters who thought it was “cool” to vote for the first black president….now they are just about to graduate with little or no job prospects.
Hope!
Change!
Reality sucks.
Lt. Col. Allen West: Obama’s Libya War Illegal
In this wide-ranging C-SPAN interview, Lt. Col. Allen West (R-Florida, and a future President of the United States, if America should be so lucky) points out that Barack Hussein (not a Muslim) Obama is in violation of the War Powers Act, which requires the president to get the approval of Congress for any military operation that lasts more than 60 days. If Congress doesn’t give approval, the Act requires that the military operation stop immediately.
From an editorial in the Denver Post:
This choice is not merely a preference expressed by Congress in 1973. It’s the law of the land — a law clearly in accord with the U.S. Constitution, which bestows war-making powers on Congress, not the president.
And yet our military operations in Libya continue without any congressional authorization, in defiance of that mandate.
Moreover, Congress appears unwilling to confront the president over this neglect of the War Powers act. As The Washington Post reported Thursday, “Republican and Democratic leaders, who agree on little else, seem united in their desire to not say much about the War Powers Resolution.”
Israeli PM Netanyahu Schools Barak Hussein “Not A Muslim” Obama
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminds us how a real leader speaks in this May 24, 2011 address to both houses of Congress. If only our own head of state, Barack Hussein Obama*, would defend his own country with such passion and intelligence.
Israel and the U.S. are fighting the same enemy: Islamic Fascism. If this speech is any indication, Israel is doing a better job of it. Then again, they have to. They are surrounded on all sides by illiterate, uneducated, medieval barbarians who decapitate people they disagree with, strap remote-controlled bombs on women and children, and stone rape victims to death for “adultery.”
And Netanyahu makes an amazing point. Of the millions of Muslims in the Middle East, only a tiny percentage of them have democratic rights…because they’re fortunate enough to be citizens of Israel.
And when a CodePinko heckler interrupts his speech, he uses it as an opportunity to point that that such a thing would be impossible in most capitals in the Middle East.
* not a Muslim
Israel: Just The Latest To Go Under Obama’s Bus
Israel is just the latest…over the last three years, Barak Hussein Obama has thrown countless people, organizations, and U.S. allies under the bus, while rolling out the red carpet to known America-hating Communists, fascists, union thugs, and foreign dictators.
If America still exists 20 years from now, it will only be because of what each of us does to save her over the next 36 months.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
–Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist (from WikiQuote.com)
It’s time to speak out…while we still can.
