FACT CHECK: Obama skims over some Afghan realities. Doesn't mention 'victory' in speech

President Obama is not a Wartime President, is not a Pro-
America President and is not an inspirational President to the American People or America’s Troops… No Matter How Often the Lame Stream Tries to Tell Us What a Great Speaker He Is!

There was not enthusiasm, no determination, no anger, no inspiration in Obama’s speech to the cadets at West Point and to the American People. Per Germany’s Der Spiegel the cadets present at Obama’s speech were coached yesterday to respond to his speech enthusiastically! (and still were luke warm).

And, did you know that General McCrystal actually asked Obama for 40 to 60 thousand troops; stressing that 40,000 would be a bare minimum if we wanted to win?!? What did he give him?? 30 to 35,000 almost 4 months later?

DER SPIEGEL: 'Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false'...

Can more U.S. troops in Afghanistan really convert Afghans into an effective fighting force? Will allies answer the call to do more? Is Pakistan truly prepared to take on the extremists who pose the greatest threat?

President Barack Obama said yes in his speech Tuesday laying out his plan to pour 30,000 more troops into the Afghan war, then begin pulling out in 18 months.

The prospects, though, at least judging by recent history, are mixed.
A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the reality on the ground: READ MORE...

Reason 4,298 we despise liberals. Listen to Biden and Obama; idiots, hypocrites and total morons. This video is just more evidence of that.

NOTE ABOUT WEST POINT SPEECH- Can this annoying con artist of a President please expand his vocabulary? 'The status quo is unsustainable! Derisive, Dismissive, Insidious, Incredulous.'

Dude, 'shut up already.' Someone please yank the plug on that teleprompter so he can go back to being the 'real' Obama. The 'stuttering' Marxist 'community organizer' who doesn't like America or it's history.

Google 'The status quo is unsustainable Obama' and look how many times he says it. Israel, health care, Afghanistan, Israeli-Palestinian, the economy, the environment.

The reason we call Obama supporters 'idiots' is because they actually think this guy is a genius because he uses 'played out' phrases, when they can't see that Obama is conning the shit out of them. They should feel like idiots for not paying attention to WHAT he is saying instead of HOW he says it.

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Fox: No Mention of 'Victory'? Click Here for Speech Analysis

President Obama, in a speech Tuesday that could define the rest of his presidency, laid out his plan to quickly send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to revive the struggling war effort while setting a preliminary timeline for withdrawal -- aiming to start handing over security roles to Afghan forces by July 2011.

"The status quo is unsustainable," Obama said as he outlined his case for a three-part strategy: more troops to bolster the military effort, a "civilian surge" to improve living conditions in the country and an increased focus on the United States' partnership with Pakistan.

The much-anticipated strategy decision is one of the most significant foreign policy moves of Obama's early presidency, and the White House is hoping the plan will achieve the tough task of appeasing the military, a war-weary public and the anti-war left. Read more here.

Cadet read 'Kill Bin Laden' book during Obama speech...

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Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic
Video: Krauthammer: Obama's Afghan Speech Was 'Defensive'
Palin Reacts to Surge
Obama Channels Bush
Setting Up Our Military to Fail
A Sinking Feeling
Obama's Afghanistan Speech: Bush Could Have Done It Better
Obama's Afghan Plan Fails to Satisfy Left or Right
Video: Karl Rove Analyzes Obama's Afghanistan Speech
Fred Barnes: A Disappointing Speech in Support of the Right Policy
McCain: 'Success Is the Real Exit Strategy'
Analysis: A War Strategy With Echoes of Bush
McChrystal 'Encouraged' by Strategy
Sen. Feingold Slams War Strategy
Between the Lines, an Expansion in Pakistan
U.S. Troops Skeptical of Afghan Soldiers' Abilities
116 U.S. Troops Died in Afghanistan While Obama Pondered Reinforcements
Fact Check: Obama Skims Over Some Afghan Realities
Caught on Tape: Obama Lulls Cadet to Sleep
Video: What Obama Thought of Bush's Troop Increase
Opinion: Obama to Terrorists: You Win in 2011
Obama Sets Timetable For Withdrawal On July 1, 2011
West Point Another 'Pretty Good Photo-Op' for the President?
U.S. Opts for Limited Surge
Democrats 'Nervous' About Afghanistan Plan

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Know Your Enemy… have Strategic Goals and Plans and Then Fight To Win

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The United States of Wusses

Posted Dec 01, 2009 02:03pm EST by Henry Blodget

From The Business Insider, Dec. 1, 2009:

When Dubai wobbled last week, everyone rushed to the Internet to await confirmation of the imminent bailout.

And they saw what they wanted to see!

The airwaves (and pipes) were clogged by a steady stream of pundits declaring that there was no way Abu Dhabi would let Dubai go bust.

Why not?

Because if Dubai went bust, then... well... then the stock market might go down for a while! Then the idiots who loaned Dubai World money to build huge islands and buildings in the desert would have to pay for their stupidity! Then the buildings' ownership would change in a debt restructuring--the kind that happens every day in a normally functioning capitalist economy!

INCONCEIVABLE!!!

Remarkably, against this tidal wave of panic and entitlement, Abu Dhabi stood its ground, refusing to reward idiocy by throwing more good money after bad.

And lo and behold... the world's stock markets have stabilized and Dubai is having civilized conversations with its lenders, the same way folks who have had to restructure their debts have had since the dawn of time.

In the United States, meanwhile, Messrs. Bernanke and Geithner no longer have to assure us that they will never let a big bank fail--because we understand that this guarantee has basically been written into the United States constitution. The LESSON OF LEHMAN BROTHERS has been learned, and the lesson is this:

We have become a nation of mamma's boys.

Specifically, after 25 years of debt-fueled consumerism, we have become accustomed to instant gratification and instant fixes, led by politicians and regulators terrified of having to tell us the harsh truth:

We lost our discipline. Getting it back will make life tougher for a while. But it will make us stronger in the end.

It wasn't always this way. In fact, the era of prosperity that we've just enjoyed was made possible by a leader with a huge spine--one who, unlike our current financial and economic leaders, wasn't afraid to risk his job (and enormous public pressure and disapproval) to do the right thing.

Who was that leader?

Paul Volcker.

How much public hatred was Volcker willing to withstand to get us back on the right track?

Take a look at the chart below. The red bars are the Fed Funds rate (which Volcker directly controlled). The blue line is unemployment (which he indirectly controlled).

In 1980, with the country beset by chronic, runaway inflation, Paul Volcker decided to do something about it. Specifically, he hiked rates sharply, into a weak economy.

What happened?

He killed the economy.

Unemployment soared--spiking from 6% to well over 10%, the highest level since the Great Depression. The economy crashed back down into a double-dip recession. Millions of Americans were put out of work. The stock market plunged to 15 year lows.

But Paul Volcker held fast. And a few years later, inflation was all but dead, setting us up for two decades of prosperity (and one of letting ourselves go to pot).

Fast forward to today. Today, we are led by men like Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner. Men who are so afraid of the consequences of making people pay for their profligacy and stupidity that they have restarted the debt bubble (free money and bailouts for Wall Street, FHA, cash for clunkers) and made Too Big To Fail a national policy.

Take another look at that chart.

Do you think Ben Bernanke would be willing to withstand the heat that Paul Volcker took to get this country back on track? Tim Geithner? Larry Summers? Barack Obama? Do you think any of them would be willing to stand up and deliver the message this country--and Wall Street--desperately needs to hear?

We don't either.

But at some level, we can't say we blame them. Given our current national attitude, we would fire them instantly for even daring to suggest such a thing.

But we'd still be better off hearing it. And it would make us stronger and better in the end.

This is what we all should be like!!

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