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Sheepshank

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4. If Obama had been in office when the initial decision was made to go into Afghanistan....
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 10:19 AM
Feb 2012

....I would have been more likely to affix the loser label to Obama. Being handed a cancerous situation and leading the pubic to believe there was ever a chance that Obama could make it right...as if it never happened is ludicrous.

The fact is that this cancer had metastisized and regardless of the actions taken to remedy the situation this was going to be a lose/lose situation. I believe it to wholely unfair to label the heading of the op as if Obama had been given a bouquet of roses rather than a tumor and bury the name of the culrpit in the body of the text.

Given the slant of the op....I found myself skipping rather than reding this lengthy work. I made instant assumptions of the slant of the rest of the narrative and chose not to indulge.

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If we even know what the mission was. mmonk Feb 2012 #1
if they claim it was to get bin Laden, they are indeed full of it bigtree Feb 2012 #2
I really ProSense Feb 2012 #5
we'll just disagree then bigtree Feb 2012 #7
Here's ProSense Feb 2012 #8
actually, the focus of this administration was bolstering the Karzai regime bigtree Feb 2012 #9
Here ProSense Feb 2012 #10
I don't need the President's statement bigtree Feb 2012 #12
What? ProSense Feb 2012 #17
yeah, you got me there - but this isn't a thesis bigtree Feb 2012 #18
du rec. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #3
If Obama had been in office when the initial decision was made to go into Afghanistan.... Sheepshank Feb 2012 #4
I have a 'slant' on the entire operation which the President escalated bigtree Feb 2012 #6
FUBAR war. FUBAR ending to a lost war that should never have been started. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2012 #11
DU-Unrec eom BlueCaliDem Feb 2012 #13
unrec is an outmoded concept here bigtree Feb 2012 #14
It's symbolic, I know. BlueCaliDem Feb 2012 #15
I don't know why bigtree Feb 2012 #16
K&R (nt) T S Justly Feb 2012 #19
He got OBL...we can leave Afghanistan now. Rex Feb 2012 #20
sigh, indeed bigtree Feb 2012 #21
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