President Obama Redefines the Term “Exit Strategy”

Tapper, you need to get a lot more cynical than that. Just imagine how many times in the past Obama has chosen his words in a way that are self-serving, and inaccurate, and yet were reported at face value.
Obama has no excuse, and there is no excuse for the press to make it easy on him.

Why even go in in the first place when you were so hesitant to do it and you can’t wait to get out?

Our military is the best in the world, and there is a great chance this campaign will be a great thing for the people of Libya.
It is a shame it has been so poorly communicated and defined. The last statement from Gates is distressing.

BIDEN FLASHBACK: ‘If he gives authorization to war… without Congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him!’
OBAMA __________VS__________ AMERICA

Germans pull forces out of NATO; Libyan coalition falls apart…
OBAMA________VS_______ AMERICA

Is the US military going to be involved long term in Libya?
It depends on what your definition of “is” is.
Where have we seen this kind of doublespeak before?

Vice President Biden said he would lead the charge to impeach Obama if he took us to war without Congressional approval..
So, here we are, Joe…Put up or shut up..

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Gates, talking about who would take over for the US and when, said, “this command and control business is complicated. We haven’t done something like this, kind of on the fly before. And so it’s not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted out.”
The US military has never, ever been involved in any operations involving aircraft except for WW1, WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam, both conflicts involving Iraq, the previous air attack on Libya, the operations ongoing in Afghanistan as well as years of training and development by all branches of the armed forces (including the Nat’l Guard) with a wide variety of aircraft from helicopters to VTOL to bombers to cargo aircraft (apparently, even satellities have been involved in such stuff, but nobody really knows! Hush it’s a secret…) and additonal work with NATO and many other nations that involves all kinds of flight operations. So Gates is right, this is complex and may take a few days to get “sorted out.”

“”"”So Gates is right, this is complex and may take a few days to get “sorted out.”"”"”"
Posted by: Prop
Well, getting things “sorted out” is basically saying we didn’t have a “plan”. I mean, they’ve only had 6 WEEKS since Gadhafi started bombing his people, you would think that’s enough time to “sort things out” (ie come up with a plan).

“The exit strategy will be executed this week,” President Obama said, we will be supplying jamming, intelligence and other assets unique to us.”
So we are exiting and then will supply services unique to the USA.
? ? ? ? ? ?
There’s something seriously wrong with Obama.

Well the voters are going to redefine the term exit strategy come November 2012.

I am trying very hard to remember anyone in the last century that I’ve either witnessed first hand, or read about that was as inept at foreign policy as those in this administration. If you thought Bush hurt our status around the world, at least there was some status to hurt! Obama is in so far over his head….I can’t come up with a deserving analogy.

Where was all this angst and fury when Bush took us into an unlawful war..no wmd’s and everyone knew it. Even now, when more and more comes out about how we were lied to and duped…still no anger at Bush. This president did not take us into a war but is giving cover to people who are being killed by a dictator and he did what he said he would. He got other countries to get involved and share the costs and to take over when he is ready to step out. These were the conditions for America to get involved and they knew that and accepted it because we had the planes and power. You will see, if you give him a chance, he will get us out and do what he says he will. First the reps were complaining he was not acting at all not fast enough now they are saying he acted too fast…republicans get your story straight…you can’t have it both ways. And Mcain…stop flip flopping again..as you did with many things like you hated the wall to keep out immigrants and when you ran you yelled…”get this wall built.” you always said you and Palin were mavricks and now you even deny this…please take a side and stick with it.

-The Leadership can be thrust on Italy, since the ill-planned intervention has given Berlusconi the needed reprieve from his Legal woes.-
I say thrust the leadership on “Little Italy.” Business, just business…Capiche?

Our troops being lead by a political steering committe of who knows who. What a know nothing, scared to lead President in my life time. I would like to see him impeached for many things. Maybe his Czars are still trying to figure things out.
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So things will take a few days. What could go wrong?

Oh my, the right-wingers are in such a twist because America is learning to cooperate with other nations when dealing with international crises and affairs instead of just browbeating everybody. Unfortunately for them if they want this nation to continue to be the world’s unmitigated policeman they’re going to have to explain to the public how they intend to pay for it in today’s harsh financial climate without totally gutting all our major social programs. -Good luck with that.

“At least he got a coalition to act and did not act alone like Bush did.”
Bush was all alone, except for congressional support (Hillary!) and troops from England, Australia, Moldova, Denmark, Japan, Singapore, Polans, Spain, Italy, Tonga, Mongolia…

OBAMA: No ground troops, no matter what happens…
Uhhhhhhhh … tell that to the 2000 Marines that just left
OBAMA________VS_________AMERICA

“A interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Joe Biden clearly states his position that a President should be impeached for launching an attack on a nation that hasn’t attacked the United States”
You should hear what Obama said a few years ago.

Be advised there will be no news on Obamas blunders tonight.. the news organizations will use Liz Taylors death and CBS crawling back to Charlie Sheen for it next full month of coverage…LMAO

Posted by: Skip | Mar 23, 2011 12:24:39 PM
Can’t say I’m all that worried, Skippy. I’ve got no problem paying the tax on private planes, I send my kids to private school and waivers, gotta love them waivers. Thanks for your support!

Obama’s “exit strategy” :
Beuller? Beuller? Anyone, anyone???

“Prove me wrong…what should we be doing instead?”
What we did in Darfur, the Ivory Coast, Bahrain, Iran…!

His presidency is truly frightening. Clearly, he is not wired for this job based on his core convictions and background.
His role as community organizer was not as a leader but more as a consultant. He would go into neighborhoods to plant seeds of discontent followed by “suggestions” on how to achieve the goal of alleviating it. He never had to make a decision, nor suffer the consequences of one.
Putting political views aside, one cannot deny the fact that he is not cut out for the job as he, as well as his supporters, slowly arrive to this conclusion.
For the sake of the country I would implore his supporters to at least be honest about this.

Darfur, the Ivory Coast, Bahrain, Iran
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Has the UN and international community called for military action to protect the citizens of these countries from their respective governments?

Putting political views aside, one cannot deny the fact that he is not cut out for the job as he, as well as his supporters, slowly arrive to this conclusion
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Another sorry attempt to pass off right-wing opinion as fact. The conclusion we have arrived at quite certainly is the Republicans have absolutely no better alternative to offer.

Has the UN and international community called for military action to protect the citizens of these countries from their respective governments?
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I get it. We have to wait for the UN to tell us about bad stuff and if we should do anything. That’s a relief…Nothing to worry about, no killing, starvation, torture, just simple misunderstandings.

Is it now considered a “humanitarian crisis” when Muslim extremist men take up arms against their country and then begin getting destroyed by government forces?

failure to take action weeks ago when it might have mattered
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At least you’re hinting that you realize the level of uncertainty in all this whether you’ll ever openly admit to it or not. Flexible policies are much more effective in uncertain situations despite them being characterized as indecisive by opportunistic critics. Weeks ago we didn’t have the support of the Arab League or the UN.

–Weeks ago we didn’t have the support of the Arab League or the UN.–
here ya go Skip:
“Even those Arab partners like the UAE that ultimately didn’t contribute military assets as White House officials say they had been led to believe.”

Weeks ago we didn’t have the support of the Arab League or the UN.
Posted by: Skip | Mar 23, 2011 1:14:21 PM
So, Obama needed support of the Arab League and the UN, but didn’t need support from Congress?

“…dilly-dallying around fighting”
Where have I heard that before?

Why was my not not poster because I said the President was a Jack Ass well its true ,understand its ABC News,one of his followers .

talmag – we are not just “flying over” we have actually launched Tomahawk missiles. Why??? O-I-L

Skip you wouldn’t happen to be one of the 35% whose source of income is the government would you?

“Why??? O-I-L”
Nah..It’s not about oil any more than Iraq was about oil. Libya and Iraq and the other oil states will always have their oil and sell it to the highest bidder, no matter what their governments look like. Oil is a fungible commodity.

Oh my, the right-wingers are in such a twist because America is learning to cooperate with other nations when dealing with international crises and affairs instead of just browbeating everybody.
POSTED BY: SKIP | MAR 23, 2011 12:24:39 PM
Sure, skip. And in the meantime, China and Russia are throwing a fit; Germany is pulling equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement in the campaign’s direction; Gates has had words with the UK over whether or not Ghadafi should be killed; the no-fly zone has been called into question; Italy is going to ‘take back control’ of bases used by allies unless NATO leadership is put in charge of the mission; NATO ambassadors are having heated arguments over what the mission is/should be; meanwhile WE are fighting a war in which we have NO IDEA who we are assisting (we don’t know who the rebels are or who is leading them-this has been a KEY issue even discussed on MSNBC!!), we don’t have the money for, and no idea what the resolution will be. Gee, so glad we have ‘learned to cooperate with other nations’ or we’d be in a big mess, huh skip?

Protests in Syria are violent with people being killed by the government.
Is Obama going to war with Syria over this? Will there be Tomahawks landing soon? No fly zone coming? Why is this any different than Libya?

so glad we have ‘learned to cooperate with other nations’ or we’d be in a big mess
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Yeah like Iraq. How’d you like those ‘freedom fries’?

“What legislation are the Republicans working on to fix it?”
Outdated liberalism in a nutshell: if there is a problem, it can and should be solved by federal legislation. Per corollary, no existing problem could possibly have been caused by previous federal legislation.

The whole handling of the Libya affair makes the Iraq war look well-planned and honest.

you wouldn’t happen to be one of the 35% whose source of income is the government would you?
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No
Grew up in a union household?

Obama’s exit strategy was going to Rio.

It makes me laugh to see someone saying that the republicans aren’t doing enough to generate jobs. How long have we heard democrats say that it would take time to undo the mess republicans put us in? Now these same democrats are complaining that republicans can’t undo the mess (in addition to the hole that Obama is digging) in a few months. At least try to be consistent, unless what you’re saying is that republicans should be able to get us out of the mess faster because they are somehow better at it.

unless what you’re saying is that republicans should be able to get us out of the mess faster because they are somehow better at it
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No I don’t think they should or even can, but that was precisely their sales-pitch last election.

Up for the Nobel NonPeace prize this time

If this is a humanitarian mission to help the people of Libya, why are we not being humanitarians in helping those poor people in the Congo, Rwanda and Darfur who are being slaughtered by ruthless dicatators?

Kudos to ABC News for finally acknowledging that there are gigantic discrepencies between what Obama says and what he does! Thank you for at least critically analyzing the situation instead of blindlessly cheerleading for the man.

Republicans are either not willing or able to keep their promise to create jobs.
Posted by: Skip | Mar 23, 2011 1:48:04 PM
They ran on bring down the budget and repealing Obamacare. Once these are addressed, businesses will begin hiring again.
Obama spent over 1 Trillion and unemployment has remained at 9% for the longest time since the Great Depression. He increased discretionary spending by 25% in 2008 and 2009. But the Dems (and Obama) can’t find ANYWHERE to cut.

Kudos to ABC News for finally acknowledging that there are gigantic discrepencies between what Obama says and what he does! Thank you for at least critically analyzing the situation instead of blindlessly cheerleading for the man.
Posted by: Craigster | Mar 23, 2011 2:54:56 PM
Now, do the same critical analysis on Obamacare.

>>> We haven’t done something like this, kind of on the fly before. And so it’s not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted out.”<<<
Obama is flying by the seat of his pants again. No thought to goal or exit strategy. No thought to funding this war. Our cost is reaching $1billion already.
We have a humanitarian need right on our doorstep – Mexico! Why not fight to rid Mexico – and America – of the drug cartels here?

I wonder if Gates and Obama could be indicted under the patriot act for providing material support to the al Queda terrorists who are running the Libyan rebellion.
These must be the “good” al Queda. I’m sure pentagon dinner guest and current al Queda #1, Anwar al Awlaki would approve.

-and replaced by Republicans of the same mindset and policies which crashed the economy in the first place. It’s going to be a tough sell, especially since Republicans are either not willing or able to keep their promise to create jobs. Skip | Mar 23, 2011 1:48:04 PM
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Skip, Last I checked, the economy crashed after the new Congress came in in 2007. Last I checked, the primary cause of the crash was the housing bubble. Last I checked, that bubble was brought to you courtesy of the 1993 Democrat Congress via the Community Reinvestment Act The Democrats in Congress ridiculed President Bush’s messenger – calling him a racist, and alarmist, and other pro hominim attacks (I saw the hearings).
And of course the Republicans can’t keep their promise to create jobs – they only control 1/3 of the law-making elements of our government. Anything the House does will be shot down by the Senate and/or the Administration. This in spite of the success of President Bush’s (and Republican’s) policies in the early 2000′s that led to a quick recovery from the inhereted Clinton recession and the economic impact of 9/11. I prefer to go with the proven track record rather than a teleprompter.

You know what I am sick to death of hearing about ht egreedy Republicans. Folks there is nothing greedy about working and making money. You Dems should be happy we do since we are supporting you and all your stupid entitlement programs. We got into the economic mess for one major reason only-the Democrats such as Clinton forced the banks and Fanny and Freddie to loan money to people on WELFARE. You idiots that is not income that is MY money and they have no right buying a house if they are to lazy, stupid, or pregnant to work and pay for it themselves. I pay for everything I have and I work hard for it. I have never in my life asked for anything. So blame your selves and know this until we cut the entitlement of welfare and food stamps so you are only eligible for 1 year no matter how many kids you produce we will stay in this mess. If you can not support what you have don’t have any more we know what causes it and dam it get sterilized. And don’t fuss about that, if you can not take care of them its not my job, I pay for mine it is your turn to pay for yours.

The housing market tanked because of President Clinton’s 1999 policy pushing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite bad loans to promote home sales to minorities
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We’ve been over this umpteen times, the public doesn’t buy this old worn out attempt to divert blame from the Republicans for the financial crash and rightfully so; it is common knowledge that most of the bad loans were written in the private sector and there were nowhere near enough minority or even lower income homebuyers to account for the size of the housing bubble.

It’s rinky-dink time in the kindergarten playground again! This WH is completely in over their heads and have made the US look like complete idiots. Calling them rank amateurs would be an afront to all amateurs.
Time for ALL of these losers to go in 2012. God help us till then.

The proper legislation that the Republicans can use to fix things is to not extend the debt ceiling. The US govt revenue is 2.2 trillion a year. without borrowing, spending will have to drop to that level, rather than continue on at 3.7 trillion a year.
That will mean that the unconstitutional government Ponzi pseudo-insurance programs will have to be cut. They are about 60% of the budget, and cutting them to nothing would solve the problem nicely.

Intersting. Marines have been deployed into Lybia and although they will leave, they will be relieved not extracted. I thought no ground troops. Maybe BO doesn’t know a ground soldier from a pilot or sailor.

Obama is wanting a new president in Libya so that he can go bow to him.

POSTED BY: SHOE | MAR 23, 2011 2:08:51 PM
Hey, skip, why didn’t you respond to my post? You DO have an argument, right?

Those who can do.
Those who can’t teach.
Those who can’t teach, teach gym.
Those who can’t teach gym become community organizers.

“The exit strategy will be executed this week,” President Obama said
He’s right about that.

Let’s face it folks…time to be honest…the nation elected an incompetent idiot…The Puppet couldn’t find his arse with a compass and a flashlight.

UPDATE: 15 dead in new clashes in southern Syria city…
Where IS Obama????????????

As stated before,a policy “kind of on the fly” is no policy at all.To commit American forces without a clearly defined objective is rank incompetence. With a well-defined objective and plan the exit stategy is self-evident:success of the mission.Obama does not have the intelligence nor the leadership skills necessary for this job.This is why college records,transcripts and publications are important.And people claimed Bush was stupid-at least he never committed American forces without a clearly defined objective,unlike Corpseman Obama.

What HASN’T this disgrace of a President lied about?

You will hear none of this on World News Tonight

Jake, perhaps he’s using a different meaning for the word “executed.”
… a dead exit strategy.

This wrangling over DETAILS is putting a severe crimp in Obama’s 2012 Campaign efforts and his FAMILY vacations!!!!
WON’T SOMEBODY just TAKE CHARGE of this darn mess so the empty suit can get back to partys and sports???

OBAMA SAYS….TIME FOR MY “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” BANNER.
AND FOR ANOTHER PRESS CONF. SPEECH MAYBE…WHATEVER!!

“As we watch Al Qaeda cheering on the “rebels” of Libya…one can’t help but think Obama might be a complete imbecile.” – Andrew
What do you mean “might be”?
He is a certifiable imbecile.
Our job, as Americans, is to hold on until 2012 so we can purge him from any semblance of power.
Hope dwindles daily.
Change never bothered to show up.
Vote Conservative 2012.

Let’s eee, UK and Italy want NATO to be in charge, France and Turkey don’t want it to be in charge. Meanwhile Germany pulls out of the operation and Norway has its planes sitting and waiting for a decision.
Boy, I’m sure glad they had this command and control thing figured out before the shooting started.

Leaving the other African genocide victims in Darfur to ask Obama, “what are we, black or something?”
The best exit strategy would be to give Obama a sand wedge and a bag of golf balls,(although he is sorely missing the other type) then send him to Libya, and let him hack his way out of that sand trap.
We’ll see you in 30 years.

Dah! OMG, people I work with would be fired on the spot for not having a plan. Imagine starting a project at work and not have a:
Commitment from the top execs and acceptance from lower level employees
Mission statement
Requirements
A business plan
Start Date/End Date
Need I go on?
He begged to be in charge and bad-mouthed everyone that was in the White House before him.
Don’t get me wrong, I was also angry with Bush for several things he did and did not do and am an Independent; yes, I can think for myself. But this guy is worse than a joke; he is doing real long-term damage to America.
Just another village idiot.

The Pentagon do doubt had a contingency plan for the Libya situation.
Apparently, the planners failed to take into account that we have a politically correct President who wouldn’t follow a plan. That must be the reason for Gates embarrassing “on the fly” statement.

“Your analogy that the crisis in Libya is like a work project is flawed Deb. Let’s ask the Japanese if they’ve formulated all their long term plans and mission statements BEFORE they try to get their damaged reactors under control.”
Here ya go Skip (again):
Yesterday, Defense Secretary Gates, talking about who would take over for the US and when, said, “this command and control business is complicated. We haven’t done something like this, kind of on the fly before. And so it’s not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted out.”
Awesome, we’re just like the unprepared Japanese!

Fubar says it’d be easier to preside over China than America. Will Libya do?

Fubar says there’s no such thing as a shovel-ready project. For another palty trillion or five he may learn there’s no easy war.

Skip, it isn’t possible to prepare for every possible contingency. Nuke power IS safe against normal calamities, and with all their experience with quakes, nothing led the Japanese to expect a quake of this magnitude. Either way, it has nothing to do with the safety of nuclear power.

Liberal thinking:
Bush needs to be prosecuted for his illegal war!
Hail obama, the smartest person ever!
But he is doing the same things…
Posted by: jncarlos007 | Mar 23, 2011 7:03:04 PM
Yep, and Skips response will be, “But, but, but, BUSH DID IT FIRST!”

The timing of involvment is questionable. If it were a week earlier, the rebels could have had the upper hand and force a regime change. Had we stayed out of it, the current regime would have put an end to it. Getting involved now will only lead to a protracted and unending war with Gadhafi ultimately remaining in power. Why was it done this way? Perhaps the long-term oil price increase from a protracted war was attractive. Perhaps it was Gadhafi’s threat to flood Europe with millions of African immigirants if he was attacked. Obama has his reasons for getting involved, but are they really those that he states publically.

“Ultimately this matter should be settled by Libyans themselves, ideally in a non-violent manner though it’s apparently unlikely considering how ever other conflict in the History of the World has been resolved.” – Skip
Pretty smart statement there Skip except for the utopian la la liberal idea that conflicts can be settled in a non-violent manner. I think the revolutionary war and the civil war here in the States required a fair amount of bloodshed.

Obama is beginning to surpass BJClinton’s world record for obfuscation when he nailed “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” I’m sure he’ll retire the Guinness World Record before 2012 elections are here. The guy is simply dishonest.

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