Dear President Obama,Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do — destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they’ve always heard is true — that all politicians are alike. I simply can’t believe you’re about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn’t so.
It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That’s the way General Washington insisted it must be. That’s what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. “You’re fired!,” said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in’ hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption).
So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea — “Let’s invade Afghanistan!” Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin.
“I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. ”
– Lyndon Baines Obama
Go Mikey,
he’s right. OBAMA has defiled the institute of the presidency. I’m not about race hatred, 44 has turned POTUS into a public relations office for the corporates who have held power for how long 20/40/100 years? At least his predecessors had the ability to hide this fact.
Oww, what’s gonna happen if a true third party gets on the scene.
Go see his movie ‘Capitalism, a love story’, brilliant even if you hate his guts.
#82 The only brilliant thing in fat bastard is his greasy skin.
#83, pedro,
I knew there was something you loved about Micheal Moore.
Touché!
Obama is owned by the Money. He does what the Money tells him. Just like Bush and others before him. As Mark Twain said, history never repeats itself but it often rhymes.