14 GOLD STARS OVER THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER 8 OVERNIGHT

October 27

14 GOLD STARS OVER THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER 8 OVERNIGHT

Dear Veterans and friends,

General McCrystal, the man in charge of fighting for a our freedom in Afghanistan was asked to submit a threat assessment to win the war.

He complied.

Over 60 days ago he requested 40,000 combat troops to surge and defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

In the mean time our troops are getting killed.

President Obama is not listening to his General.

General McCrystal has asked and has so far been denied the resources to win this war.

Senator John Kerry, the left wing anti American, communist just told the national press that general McCrystal’s request is over reaching and too fast.

What the hell does John Kerry know what the General in combat needs to win this war ?

John Kerry is a waste of tax payer money.

He was sympathetic to the enemy in Vietnam and he has now just publicly thrown General McCrystal under the bus.

If I were general McCrystal I would resign and retire.

Please call Comrade Kerry and tell him what you think.

Ask him when was the last time he was in a bunker in Afghanistan taking mortar and RPG rounds.

Kerry is a lowly sack of goat manure.

Here is his phone #.Call him and leave a message.

(202) 224-2742
(413) 785-4610
(617) 565-8519
(508) 677-0522

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne.

Signed,
Senior Chief Geoff Ross, USN, Ret.

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Steve Schippert of Threats Watch and host of Take That Radio weighs in:

Listening to John Kerry for National Security insight is like watching NFL Network and waiting for the Pele’ biography.

 

Period.

 

Kerry’s bus is small, lacking tread, and running in reverse.

The question is whether he is foreshadowing the Obama announcement.

The Obama White House said weeks ago that they would not make a decision – nay, would not be pressured into a decision domestically – until the Afghan run off was determined. This, the argument went, was to ensure we knew what kind of ally/government we would have in Afghanistan.

Funny thing, that run off. Obama has signaled his decision will be announced within hours of poll closings in Afghanistan next week. It will take days perhaps weeks to know the hand-counted results from across the country.

So which election is he waiting for really? The Afghan elections, with results unknown, or the NJ/NY/VA elections, the results which will be known the night of election day next week?

The truth, to me, is clear. He is avoiding an announcement before US elections which are critical barometers of his policies. And why?

 

Because he will announce a less than full surge, which will be immensely unpopular, criticized and will anger many. This would show up in NJ/NY/VA polls. So he will save it for after then to damage them less.

If he were truly going to go out to win in Afghanistan, a decision which would be applauded from the center to the right and even among the non-hard left, he would have announced before – even close to – the state elections.

Brace yourselves. There is a dithering, withering path ahead.

John Kerry is laying the foundations for it now.

We will not see an Afghan Surge (TM) for one simple, yet critical, reason. Do you all recall, post-stimulus, the Obama budget forcasts that were eventually blown out of the water by both the CBO and reality? Do you remember where most of the budgetary “savings” came from?

That’s right, a draw down in Iraq. Merely shifting these resources in number and cost to Afghanistan will have an even more devastating impact on the already laughable Obama budget projections, and materialize right in the heat of 2010 election cycles. Deficit beyond imagination and so far off Obama forecasts as to appear wholly mindless. the 2010 elections would be an even hotter Hell to pay for Dems supporting the O nonsense.

 

This was the reality that I saw from the beginning: That Afghanistan will be starved of resources rather than fed them as Candidate Obama assured in his pledges to fight “the real war” in Afghanistan.

It is domestic budget – NOT intellectually considered counterinsurgency v. counterterrorism strategies – which will dictate how this White House conducts the war in Afghanistan.

The trick for them is how to sell not shifting resources from Iraq to Afghanistan as brilliance rather than the domestic policy trickery that it really is.

Our enemies can take heart: This President and his team have greater and more aggressive designs on the American society and its free market-based economy than on them, the jihadists who would slit our throats quite literally given opportunity.

And this budget elephant in the Situation Room is what makes me so angry when folks consider Biden/Levin/Kerry options as intellectually vetted counterterrorism alternatives.

Bull! Look at the budget. Someone go back to spring ’09 and dig up the Iraq Drawdown accounting in O’s budget as the source for freed funds. Fighting the enemy in Afghanistan? It was bull on the campaign trail, and its bull now. Iraq Drawdown funds (created or saved) were never – EVER – accounted for as shifting to another theater of war, “real” or imagined. It was shifted to redistribution schemes here at home.

Go ahead. Prove me wrong. Please. Someone.

Anyone???

Hope and change my ass.
This is the moment…