In a megalomaniacal act of unmitigated gall, Barry Soetoro stood in front of West Point Cadets on 01Dec09 and read from his teleprompter. I can imagine what those cadets were thinking and I've written it in red:
It's an extraordinary honor for me to do so here at West Point, where so many men and women have prepared to stand up for our security and to represent what is finest about our country.
(I'm sure it is an honor for you. We, however, have more respect for what we blew out of our noses this morning than we have for you.)
Just days after 9/11, Congress authorized the use of force against Al Qaeda and those who harbored them, an authorization that continues to this day. The vote in the Senate was 98-0; the vote in the House was 420-1.
Then, in early 2003, the decision was made to wage a second war in Iraq. ( By a vote of 77-23 in the Senate and 296-133 in the House - not that you would know. You were too busy knob-jobbing the AFL-CIO.)
The wrenching debate over the Iraq war is well-known and need not be repeated here. It's enough to say that, for the next six years, the Iraq war drew the dominant share of our troops, our resources, our diplomacy, and our national attention, and that the decision to go into Iraq caused substantial rifts between America and much of the world. (A few candy-assed, hygienically-challenged terrorist apologists ISN'T "much of the world".)
Today, after extraordinary costs, we are bringing the Iraq war to a responsible end.
(The Iraq War was won BEFORE you took office and despite your vote AGAINST supplying the warriors of the U.S. Armed Forces with supplies and armaments to finish what was started.)
We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer and all of our troops by the end of 2011. That we are doing so is a testament to the character of the men and women in uniform.
(Who were led by an honest-to-God COMMANDER IN CHIEF.)
Thanks to their courage, grit and perseverance, we have given Iraqis a chance to shape their future, and we are successfully leaving Iraq to its people.
("WE" haven't given Iraqis a damned thing. You described our efforts in Iraq as "A COMPLETE FAILURE". Remember that? We do. Maybe you've forgotten who is responsible for liberating millions of Muslims because your head got stuck up your ass when you were bowing to a Saudi King. We remember and the Iraqis remember.)
"Here's a guy without much experience, who campaigned against much of what we put in place ... and who now travels around the world apologizing," Cheney said. "I think our adversaries — especially when that's preceded by a deep bow ... — see that as a sign of weakness."Cheney said the president’s “agonizing” about Afghanistan strategy “has consequences for your forces in the field.”
“Every time he delays, defers, debates, changes his position, it begins to raise questions: Is the commander in chief really behind what they’ve been asked to do?”
Specifically, Cheney said the Justice Department decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in New York City is “great” for Al Qaeda.
“One of their top people will be given the opportunity — courtesy of the United States government and the Obama administration — to have a platform from which they can espouse this hateful ideology that they adhere to,” he said. “I think it’s likely to give encouragement — aid and comfort — to the enemy.” Former VP Dick Cheney, Politico
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