McCain Challenges Obama To His Face
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has publicly criticized President Barack Obama for announcing a target date to begin pulling back from Afghanistan, challenged the president’s policy to his face in a private meeting at the White House Tuesday afternoon.
During Obama’s meeting with members of Congress prior to the president’s Tuesday speech at West Point, McCain expressed concern that setting a date for withdrawal will embolden the United States’ enemies and said “success” is the true exit strategy, several sources familiar with the meeting said.
Obama replied, the sources said, much in the way he addressed the issue in his speech Tuesday night — arguing that a drawdown would take into consideration conditions on the ground in Afghanistan.
It is not the first time McCain has jabbed Obama during a private meeting on the war Afghanistan. In another gathering of lawmakers at the White House in early October, when Obama was holding sessions to devise a new Afghanistan strategy, McCain told the president he should not be taking a “leisurely” approach to making a decision.
Obama responded by saying that he was not making his decision in a “leisurely” fashion.
In this Tuesday’s hourlong meeting, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gave McCain ample question time, the sources said, which the Arizona Republican used primarily to push back on Obama’s withdrawal goals.
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Good for John McCain.
barack hussein obama, be more subtle when you relay information to the Taliban regarding your planned troop pullout. Some American people might consider your speech last night traitorous in that regard. Also, very important, continue to hide that birth certificate.
Did he call him Barak “Hussein” Obama?
I think Barak INSANE Obama may be more like it!!
When treason is policy, cowardice becomes strategy.
Obama is an ignorant shit. Lets address the cocksucker in chief’s so-called strategy, to wit:
1.) “[McCain]…expressed concern that setting a date for withdrawal will embolden the United States’ enemies and said “success” is the true exit strategy…”
This is a valid concern, as we know if specific information is given to the enemy, they will use it to their advantage. They are at war against us. Obama has now publically declared when, and how many troops will be deployed, and further, when they will begin to draw down.
2). “Obama replied, the sources said, much in the way he addressed the issue in his speech Tuesday night — arguing that a drawdown would take into consideration conditions on the ground in Afghanistan.”
This is asenine. Since we have informed the enemy when, how many soldiers, and how long our troop surge will last, the enemy is in control of ‘conditions on the ground’. They will hold or withdraw, rearm, rest-up, regroup, recruit, refinance and withhold action to maintain the appearance of peace. Obama, in his idiocy will claim “the conditions on the groud suport my plan to withdraw, I have produced peace for all mankind”. Once our troops withdraw the enemy will descend upon the Afghan populous with vigor.
Note to Obama: Surender is not victory.
All of this–the surge, the will if not want to win, competent Afghan troops–is for naught if the ROE don’t change, vis a vis the recent attack against the SEAL team. Fire from behind women and children and we’ll take our dead and wounded and retreat; store weapons in a mosque, and we’ll walk on past ignoring the snipers.