Obama commits ground troops in Nigeria Dummies Conflicted

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pinboy3niner (35,240 posts)
Breaking, CNN: President sending 80 U.S. troops to Chad to support search for Nigerian schoolgirls

Also reported by Reuters. Edit to add brief story from AP:

There are several threads going with predictable DUmmy comments ...

What is the word I am looking for here???

bigtree (51,189 posts)

8. if this was Bush

. . . I'd look at this as a slippery slope. Hawks in the administration have been making noise about 'Muslim extremists' in Nigeria and have wanted more military involvement to address all of that.

This president, however, has demonstrated some restraint in escalating these military assistance deployments and sticking to the mission stated. We're not fully engaged in Yemen right now, for example.

I give him the benefit of belief on this and I wish these troops the best in helping Nigerians locate and rescue their children.



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Obie wears a big white hat.

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Wed May 21, 2014, 04:34 PM

Rex (43,815 posts)

11. Same here, if this was Dubya and Dick I would be looking for the hidden agenda.

Oil, weapons, drugs, money...ANYTHING BUT a mission based on purely good intentions. Thankfully this is NOT W, but Obama and I do trust him in these kind of affairs. He has shown huge restraint in using the military.
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What a humanitarian Obie is.

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Wed May 21, 2014, 04:32 PM

Rex (43,815 posts)

9. Good!

This is one mission I can totally get behind. Thank you sir for finally doing something!

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Better late than never?? My guess is Moochelle and Valarie made him do it.

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Wed May 21, 2014, 04:33 PM

seveneyes (1,632 posts)

10. Let us hope their hands are not tied
And they can use whatever means are best suited to get the job done.

Waterboard them Ningers!!

oh yeah found it, freeking Hypocrites.

[DumbAss Tanker]

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Wed May 21, 2014, 04:33 PM

seveneyes (1,632 posts)

10. Let us hope their hands are not tied
And they can use whatever means are best suited to get the job done.

pinkboi is obviously someone who's never been in the military. I'm sure anything beyond providing communications, log, and intel support by this little det is so hamstrung that the ROE and OPORD read like the rules for Nine-Card Red Dog.

[Elspeth]

bigtree

....if this was Dubya and Dick I would be looking for the hidden agenda.

Oil, weapons, drugs, money...ANYTHING BUT a mission based on purely good intentions. Thankfully this is NOT W, but Obama and I do trust him in these kind of affairs. He has shown huge restraint in using the military.

This says it all, doesn't it? It's not about whether an action is correct or incorrect. It is about whether "our guy" is the one doing it.

[Dori]

I hope the ground troops are allowed to use real bullets.

[Flippy_Doo]

Damn, these are a bunch two-faced hypocritical piles of dung. When frank calls them 'primitives' he really is being generous.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Damn, these are a bunch two-faced hypocritical piles of dung. When frank calls them 'primitives' he really is being generous.

Actually I'm surprised at Frank, who is a wordsmith. To me, primitives are naive, simple people. From what I've seen that's been brought over from the DUmp, they are anything but simple. Many are very devious and the ends justify the means.

I guess in the way they are naive, the way they drink that Obama Kool-Aid.

[Dori]

Actually I'm surprised at Frank, who is a wordsmith. To me, primitives are naive, simple people. From what I've seen that's been brought over from the DUmp, they are anything but simple. Many are very devious and the ends justify the means.

I guess in the way they are naive, the way they drink that Obama Kool-Aid.

Frank sees the primitives (sometimes called proglodytes) like an anthropologist would study animal behaviors on a remote island. The DUmp is also referred to as Skin's Island.

[Apache]

Actually I'm surprised at Frank, who is a wordsmith. To me, primitives are naive, simple people. From what I've seen that's been brought over from the DUmp, they are anything but simple. Many are very devious and the ends justify the means.

I guess in the way they are naive, the way they drink that Obama Kool-Aid.

The KoolAid, SLW, isn't Zero's... (well this batch is) we have been fighting this for our entire history...

[noonwitch]

Nigeria is a third-world country. Even if our soldiers are not involved in the actual rescue operation, they can provide a great deal of guidance and assistance in locating the girls and in planning the rescue. I think it really doesn't matter whether it's Obama or Bush in the White House, any President would be willing to assist in this way, given the situation.


The white hat will belong to whoever actually finds the girls and brings them home.