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Obama caves on Osama’s cave

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 17th, 2009 at 01:41 PM  | 

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Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report

Former cave residence in Afghanistan (pictured)

The drive-by media and the leaders of the national Democratic Party have claimed for four years that the War on Terror was a failure since Osama bin Laden was still at large.
The President-Elect himself campaigned for two years on the theme that the Iraq War had caused President Bush to lose focus on capturing OBL.

These slanders on the Commander in Chief and the armed forces he has led in the Iraq, Afghanistan and other theaters of the greater war on terror have issued despite no attacks on the homeland since 911, the removal of any safe haven in Afghanistan, the decimation and scattering of al Qaida, the defeat of al Qaida in Iraq and the relegation of OBL to cave-manufactured black market audio tapes.

Of late, the actions of Barack Obama have been the greatest affirmations of the national security legacy of his soon to be predecessor. The Guantanamo Bay prison that was to be immediately shut down, or at least within 100 days, now has a 12-month lease renewal, at minimum. John Conyers’ and other House Democrats’ calls for war crimes prosecutions of CIA and military interrogators that dared misplace hairs on KSM’s head are falling on deaf, if substantial ears, as Obama lauds the great and courageous work of intelligence personelle that should not have to “spend all their time looking over their shoulders.”

Of course, Obama, the democrats and the treason media have spent much of their time over the last four years causing patriots in the CIA, FBI and armed forces to have to look over their shoulders while also keeping us safe against enemies trying to get through them to us.

No apology for all that? Guess not.

And what of that living symbol of supposed Bush failure that made change essential?

In an interview Wednesday with “CBS Evening News,” President-elect Barack Obama said that regardless of whether bin Laden is alive, the U.S. must weaken the al-Qaida network to the point that it can no longer function. “My preference, obviously, would be to capture or kill him,” Obama said. “But if we have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America.”

Yes, “we” have tightened the noose Obama. “We” have met the goal of protecting America.

No thanks to you and any Democrat not named Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman.

You weren’t part of that “we.”

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

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  • pilgrim

    When Pres. Bush took office Iraq was an enemy to the US, and as Pres. Bush leaves office Iraq is a US ally. Count me in as someone who appreciates this result.

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  • Wayne

    when GWB assumed office, OBL routinely summoned members of the Lame Stream Media to his office, er cave, for interviews. They, of course, crawled there, panting to hear his words. Now, as has been said, OBL is in the business of having someone do voice-overs for him on his tapes, and peering upwards, looking for Predators, B-1′s and Hellfire and Maverick missiles.
    And what in the world does the Obamunist mean “we”? He was “present” but didn’t do anything.

  • icbm

    we helped save from Hitler and then from the Soviets remained weak and dependent on us, Iraq will be a fighting ally in the very heart of the Middle East in our struggle against radical Islam, and an example of a free, pluralistic, Muslim nation to all the other Muslim nations.

    This is a huge accomplishment, especially, as pilgrim says, in light of what Iraq was before.

  • mbecker908

    absolutely correct foreign policy has led to the legislative destruction of the Republican Party and the election of Obama. That we’ve not been attacked in 7 years is a tribute to the fine job of engaging and killing the enemy that’s been done by our military.

    Unfortunately, we’re about to reap the whirlwind resulting from the absolute political cowardice of the leadership of the Republican Party. Obama & Co are about to start slashing military spending and reducing military headcount at the point in history when we should be going exactly the other way.

    Iraq is an ally today. Just wait until the realpolitik policies of the new Administration as outlined by HC in her confirmation hearings hits the fan and the now two democracies in the ME figure out that they are utterly on their own and at the mercy of the UN and “world opinion”.

    For the first time in my life I’m looking forward with a real sense of dread.

  • izoneguy

    Me too. If America were attacked ala 9-11 and we had 10 suicide bombers per day in America the left would still be out defending Hamas. It will come down to the everyday citizen to defend themselves. Cops won’t do anything for fear of losing a job and being sued by the ACLU.

  • icbm

    all too just, i’m afraid

    i hope your prediction ends up incorrect – as, i’m sure, you do, too, especially with all you have personally sacrificed – but i can’t hold out much hope there

  • mbecker908

    Other than a bucket full of money over the last couple of years, but I can’t lay that at GWB’s feet, all the decisions that were made, were made by me. My wife still loves me. Franz still tolerates me.

    As far as my family is concerned, my Marine Corps son is fine, the chef son is fine, but his business (high end restaurants) are hurting right now (if you’ve got a couple of hundred bucks for dinner plus some more for wine I’ve got a great restaurant for you…).

    So, all the “important stuff” is in pretty good order. The money I’ll get back. If chef son moves back home we’ll eat better and he’s a really great guy to be around.

    My concern is for my country. I really don’t think it will be the same country I grew up in by the end of May. Heck, we’ve got a pretty good start on being just like the EUWeenies and BO isn’t even POTUS yet. Sheesh.

    Right now my two biggest regrets are that I ever heard the names of Bush or McCain.

  • icbm

    sacrifice was not small, and here I think particularly of your son’s two tours in Iraq. Even if he came through safely, which is wonderful, it is no small thing to see your son go off to war, even if it makes you proud.

    Once I pay off some of my school debts, I’ll come ask you for a restaurant recommendation…

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    when the end results are something of which they want to lay claim to. Harry Reid did it, too.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    weakness and certainly not anything Bush didn’t do. He has killed more terrorists, deterred more terrorists and liberated more people that are now allies against terrorists, than even all the words you have written ad nauseum repeating your bds-isms, and that’s a lot of words.

    Yes, Bush should have been more aggressive against the lib dem/msm enemies inside the US.

    Now, feel free to write yet another blog/column repeating your same mantra but please, after your next childish must have the last word comment, please don’t feel free to continue to pollute my column threads with the notion that we are going to reap some wicked whirlwind because of what Bush did not do.

    But if you must continue to pollute my column, I will indulge you just as I have been indulging my other liberal friends that didn’t get it after 911.

  • icbm

    in his actions.

    but words are also very, very important, and he has been only an occasional defender of his policies, especially in his second term. if one side hardly defends itself, even if it is in the right, and the other side launches daily and numerous attacks, even if they are all wrong, then eventually the public will start to believe what they hear constantly proclaimed and never refuted.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    when rarely does a party retain power for three terms and to take it a bit further, as some do, to try and preemptively blame Bush, THE LIBERATOR AND THE SPINE THAT KEPT US SAFE, for any future terrorist attacks is a slander on the man.

    Bush defended himself enough to get re-elected and to win two wars and to preempt many post 911 terror attacks. To then blame him, when he was almost singularly responsible for maintaining his spine even after the 2006 elections is libel.

    slander and libel are both defamation
    devine lawyer gamecock is aware of the puny difference that some of you legal geeks live to jump on

    get lives
    if he were writing a complaint to file in court he would care
    this is redstate column!

    but I digress

    and I guess that’s all

    except to say that I do blame gop elected officials more for not more aggressively opposing their treasonous dem pals than I do Bush

    But I don’t blame Bush and the GOP for the liberal reckless policies and world views of the liberals

    I blame the dem party for being vile and morally and intellectually bankrupt

    Lets aim our fire at them

  • izoneguy

    Yes, and I hope Bush will come out with a book that will rake them over the coals. Bush’s biggest problem is that he was too civil and a gentleman. I think he was shocked at how really vile the democrats were. It may take a few years for Bush to come out firing. My bet is that he will wait until his father passes before pulling out the shotgun
    and blasting with both barrels.

  • icbm

    we agree about bush’s failings – and successes – but we disagree about how much weight to give to bush’s failings vs. democratic vulgar opportunism.

    we’re largely on the same page, though, and i think that you and i both will be concentrating our fire on the democratic party.

    (and let’s also try to keep our own party from being as vile as the dems have been. it will make our attacks more powerful and also serve our country better. i am guessing you are with me on this, since you always try to base your arguments in evidence rather than conjecture and fantasy.)

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  • mbecker908

    Bush hasn’t killed anybody. The US military has done an outstanding job of that all by themselves. Lord knows they’ve gotten absolutely no support from the President. All he’s done since the start of OIF is ignore the Democrats and the media at home who have been on a very successful campaign to discredit the war effort in general and the President’s very correct policies in particular. And as a result the Republican Party is now so far out of power we are going to reap a liberal tsunami over the next four and probably eight years.

    The President’s job is to lead, and lead both the nation and his Party. George Bush has done neither. He provided leadership prior to OIF and did an excellent job of getting votes on both side of the aisle for the AUMF. The second the Dems bailed on their votes he hid in his office and offered no defense of OIF or his broader foreign policy (that would be The Bush Doctrine v1) and even went so far as to agree with Democratic lies (see 16 Words).

    His unwillingness or inability to defend his policies along with his general fecklessness on legislation in general – garnering no Republican support before talking about SS reform, continuing to not fight for judicial nominees and being generally not involved in the whole legislative process made the Republican Party toxic in the eyes of the American people.

    I’m not prone to BDS. Those folks just hate the man, I don’t. But I sure as hell hate what he’s done to the country and the Party. And I’ve gone out of my way to cite specifics.

    We are about to see a liberal tidal wave go through this new Congress like nothing since The Great Society, only it won’t take nearly so long and it will make TGS look like something written by Barry Goldwater. And the reason the Democrats are going to be able to accomplish this fete is because our outgoing President showed absolutely no leadership over the last five plus years. If he had showed the same leadership in the final years of his Administration that he showed in the first three we likely wouldn’t be in this mess

    You can indulge me any way you want on this subject. You’ve proven time and again that your only defense of Bush is your passive-aggressive lawyer clap trap combined with undeserved pats on your own back because you used to be a Democrat. You simply refuse to face the fact that Bush has been a terrible President, both for the country and the Party, not so much for what he did (which I’ve said over and over, at least on FP, was absolutely right) but for what he didn’t do (defend those policies) and his complete lack of leadership has poisoned the American people’s perception of Republicans in general and has given us Obama and a Congress that Karl Marx would approve of.

    We’re going to be living in a whole new world by the end of May and that’s just the beginning. And don’t plan on turning the clock back once BO’s socialist agenda gets passed. We haven’t managed to kill off any of the New Deal in the last 70 years nor have we whacked any of The Great Society in the last 40.

    Like it or not gc, you’ve got your head buried in the sand with your little Bush mantra and you’re embarrassing yourself. You should restrict your comments to something you know something about and apparently GWB’s soon to be over Administration isn’t one of them.

  • icbm

    i remained in yankee territory and you had the good fortune of being transported to the south

  • mbecker908

    First of all, politics ain’t tiddly-winks. It’s an ugly game because the winner gets power and the loser (usually us) gets the shaft.

    The thing that I find so frustrating and so maddening about this President is that the Dems and the media attacked him continuously without having the readily available and obvious facts on their side. It was all mush (Bush lied, when it was easy to demonstrate that he didn’t). In the face of easily refutable attacks he was silent. Or, in the case of the lies about “The 16 Words” he actually agreed with them. He didn’t need to get personal (like I would have), he didn’t need to get nasty, all he had to do was refute their lies with the facts and do it pretty much on a daily basis. He needed a domestic war room but instead he chose to hide under his desk and say nothing. The net result was that the American people believed the Dems because that’s the only story they heard. And we find ourselves with a Marxist President. It’s an absolute fact that this President has provided no leadership over the last five years of his Administration, there’s no fantasy in that and we’re about to reap the result.

    Bush had the facts on his side. He had the correct policy on his side. He had the power, he chose to remain silent and not use it. Fundamentally what he did was take on the role of a lawyer defending a man charged with murder. He, as the lawyer, had irrefutable evidence, in the form of a clear video tape showing all parties, that someone else committed the crime and the prosecution (the Dems) only had the inference that the defendant might be guilty because he had no alibi (the defendant had been in bed, asleep, alone). The prosecution hammers their case every day and the defense doesn’t produce the video because they don’t want to embarrass the real killer. The defendant gets convicted. The defense lawyer is so convinced that his tactic was correct, he burns the video tape so it can’t be used on appeal.

  • icbm

    just the opposite. i was saying that the democrats were vulgar opportunists for deliberately using made-up information as if it were fact.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine
  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    Methinks thou doest protesteth too much? Third time this week.

    Again, it reminds of those dems that race for the mikes to make false claims that their patriotism was questioned. Guilty consciouses?

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    is that Obama had been in a liberal cocoon of family, mentors, professors and law partnrs all his life with no southern common sense releif until the campaign the past two years and maybe part of that supper at George Will’s house.

    But thank God you received some missives via the underground railroad from down here.

    btw, Arizona is not Dixie
    beware of bds musings from the Grand Canyon
    just saying
    smile

    Some people here take themselves too seriously and think they are the Hall monitor!

    Let’s see if a dawg yelps upon the landing of this stone…

  • mbecker908

    No yelping either.

    One of these days you may learn to make an argument with facts instead of cute little comments that don’t relate to anything. And I’ll bet you were one heck of a hall monitor.

  • mbecker908

    I have no guilty anything. I’m just realistic enough to realize that GWB has done the country and the Party no favors for at least the last five years. You’re just too obtuse or ignorant to see that.

    And by the way, you’re liable to tear a rotator cuff reaching around to your back with the increasing frequency you’re demonstrating.

    You keep posting BS, I’ll keep calling you on it. And you’ll keep posting silly responses like this one because you can’t refute facts. Hell, I’m not even sure you can recognize them anymore.

  • icbm

    and then we can fight it out drunkenly in person like honorable men?

  • mbecker908

    I miss single malt scotch, but not that much.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine