Well it is the night before Thanksgiving and the Obama White House still has not officially announced what President Tom Turkey is going to do concerning Afghanistan. Well, that is except to say that "He" will "finish the job."

My, my, he really must be Superman.

But of course this is just an arrogant boast by yet another self-serving politician as the only real Heroes who will be called on to "finish the job" are our brave men and woman in the military. The best Obama, or any politician for that matter, can do is to give them what they need and then get out of the way, which was the main lesson we did not learn from Vietnam.

I don't know about the rest of you but in seeing Obama standing before his Teleprompters reading such a bold self-inflating declaration, I have to wonder where are all of those critics who lambasted Bush when he equally declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq? Most of those same people who have been harping about Bush's arrogance since he was first elected, and we all know more than one or two, are today standing a little taller, chests thrust out and smiling as they claim that we finally have a man in the White House who can make decisions.

But what these Kool Aid drinkers won't explain to the rest of us is why they believe it is such a good thing to have this turkey in the White House make so many bad decisions? Nor can they explain why it took their Golden Goose so long to make this one.

Those one way critics also will gladly explain why they were so upset with Bush for taking a whole seven minutes to respond to the surprise attacks on 9-11, but now they have nothing to add when it has taken their Obama months to reach his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan. Unlike Bush looking indecisive in being caught by surprise, we know that Obama was fully aware that this war was going on way back during his campaign because he kept telling us that Afghanistan was a priority and that it was a war that must be won. He even told us back then that he had a plan.

Of course in the Charlie Sheen/Van Jones' explanation for Bush's Seven Minutes, Bush was simply wondering where the other two planes were that he had ordered to attack.

Now just in case it is a little fuzzy to some of you, as the passing of time can do that to us, General McChrystal first requested these additional troops on August 31st. I say again, that was on Monday, August 31st, or thirteen weeks ago. Even with just a public school education I know that thirteen weeks is a much, much longer span of time than seven minutes.

Still Obama does not even plan to announce what he is going to do until at least next Tuesday, or fourteen weeks after his General told him that without these requested additional troops this war might be lost.

But then as we have heard, this CIC does not necessarily require "victory" as the "goal" in Afghanistan. Except for Wibberley's fictional Duchy of Grand Fenwick, Obama may just be the first commander in history of any armed forces that were actively engaged in a war who did not have set as his one and only goal, Victory. Simply put, it does not matter if we are fighting the armies of Third Reich, a scattered Jihadist movement, or a boatload of Somali pirates, Obama's statement of not requiring a victory is treasonous.

But if you think that this philosophy for fighting a war is bad for America, just think of what it means to our sons and daughters who are now in Afghanistan!

Whether Obama inherited this war or not, to require our military to continue to fight this war without so much as even being willing to declare that our enemies are Islamic terrorists, and while designating what is clearly a war as an "Overseas Contingency Operation," this administration has clearly shown that it does not have the best interests of our Nation, our People, and most of all the members of our Military and their families, at heart. From Dover to Foot Hood Obama has shown that all the military means to him is just another photo op.

Personally I believed that Obama was just stalling until after he got his health care passed so as not to upset that Liberal base that wants him to bring the Boys home now. He can't do that of course and risk another attack that may be planned and launch from Afghanistan. The General was always going to get his much needed troops. But the question was, well in fact still is, when?

In these last three plus months we have been given some pretty lame excuses as to why Obama wasn't willing to commit to any plan. One was that the Afghan government was corrupt. Huh, no kidding. Why should this Afghan government be any different from any of the others in the Middle East? But before I start sounding too smug about other nations having a corrupt government, I will add that with the way the Obama administration runs things you could say that it takes one to know one.

Then Obama also explained that he was concerned that the Afghan elections were fixed. What? Obama, The Ultimate Community Organizer is concerned with election fraud! That's rich.

Umm… it's a good thing we don't need more troops in Minnesota or the Democratic Party and Al Franken would have to come clean.

We won't even get into ACORN here. But let's just say that with hanging chads, denying military absentee votes and in registering dead people and cartoon characters, these past few elections has America looking more like a Third World dictatorship than Venezuela, where at least everybody knows that the elections are rigged.

But after Afghan officials agreed to hold another election, only to later have one of the candidates withdraw leaving the election a mute point, Obama had to come up with a new excuse. Of course nothing had really changed in Afghanistan, the government is still as corrupt as ever but then hey, it's the 21st Century were fantasy becomes the reality with the drop of hand grenade pin.

Needing a new excuse to dither, now Obama explained that what he really needed before he sent any more of our good guys over there was a solid "exit strategy" before making a decision. Unfortunately whatever plans anyone came up with Obama found it prudent to turn them all down, for whatever.

Well here's one simple little plan for the Turkey President, step by step, I call it, "The Horse Before The Cart Strategy."

1) Send more good guys than needed to kill the bad guys. And this means always, 5 to 1 is good, 10 to 1 is even better. We aren't looking for a "fair fight," we're looking to win and there is strength in numbers. If you do think that this is unfair then join the other side to help them with the odds.

2) Give the good guys everything they need to insure VICTORY, including more troops if requested. (If you are not sure of the definition of Victory, see WW II, and no Hirohito was not onboard the Missouri to surrender to General MacArthur.)

3) End all diplomatic discussions or in the case of Islamic terrorists, negotiations. If we are at war then it means that the politicians had their chance and they failed. Once the shooting and dying starts the only thing we want to hear from the enemy is "I surrender", or the total silence of a peace that comes from vanquishing the enemy. The only thing we want from politicians are pay raises.

4) Kill all the bad guys (in this case Islamic terrorists) as quickly and brutally as possible until they either lay down their arms and stop trying to kill us or they are all dead.

5) Make it quick, savage and total. More lives will be saved on all sides by quickly and unmercifully destroying our enemy in a few months than by trying to slowly win the hearts and minds of the populace as we "tippy toe" around the area for ten years, or by paying off our enemies not to fight us. (For an example study Fallujah, by comparing the year before the Marines were "let go" to the year after the Marines were "let go.")

6) Fully understand that Victory, as in total and complete Victory, is the only goal.

7) Then, and only then, can you use your "exit strategy" by bringing the troops home.

Its called "War" for a reason, and this simple, straightforward strategy has worked for centuries.

Whatever happens after the war, like rebuilding the country and establishing its government, or "stressing out" over violating the bad guys' rights, will be a lot easier to accomplish, or bear, when the bombs stop exploding and the bullets stop flying because all the bad guys are dead, or in the case of our present war with Islamic terrorists, the bad guys have given up their Jihad and found Jesus.

This time tested and victorious strategy follows that old common sense saying of, "Don't put the cart before the horse."

First assure Victory, and then you can straighten the rest out. Obama and his fellow gobblers are more worried about what they are going to do after the war then they are in winning it.

As it is, only politicians will start wars and then want to fight them at the same time that they are trying to not fight them. Only politicians will send people off to kill others and to perhaps die themselves, and then worry about public opinion.

But only Liberal politicians will start wars, then immediately cut funding for it, refuse to identify who we are fighting and why, or refuse to even admit that we are at war. They will deny supplies and additional troops, worry about how the bad guys feel and if they are being mistreated, constantly look for and imagine a series of atrocities by our own forces, while ignoring the barbarian conduct of our enemies while continuously bringing charges against our fighting men for protecting they own lives. They will give terrorists the same rights as an American citizen, and want a soldier to read Miranda to a bad guy who just killed another soldier! Liberal politicians regret their votes to go to war a nanosecond after they are cast, will forever more deny that they ever supported the war and will want the troops brought back home two weeks before they had even left.

Liberal politicians send other peoples' sons and daughters off to fight wars while they continue discussing 'IF' we should even be fighting and will continue this pathetic charade until long after the war is over!

Liberals when then cook the history books to show that all of it had been avoidable if not for America wanting an empire so that everything had been America's fault. Or as they put it, any violence was merely the results of America's, "Chickens coming home to roost."

May God double bless the Warriors who have to go to war under a Liberal administration.

I was somewhat amused in that only a pompous, narcissistic drumstick like Obama would so belatedly appear before us to announce that he has an announcement by announcing that he will be making an announcement sometime next week when during that announcement he will announce his plans for Afghanistan.

It really does make you wonder how comedians can have enough willpower to lay off this guy even if most of them are Liberals?

Obama is also concerned in just how he is going to pay for this 'maybe' troop increase and still continue to finance the war. After watching this administration and its' Liberal puppets in Congress all act like they were penniless paupers who had hit a Mega Bucks lottery back in January by spewing money around like it was tomorrow's giblet gravy, but now, suddenly, they are concerned about where the money is going to come from to pay for a war that has been going on for eight years? Now that's funny.

But I guess we do all have our priorities. President Turkey's priorities over the last few months have been anything goes as long as it fit his socialist agenda. Be it merely hundreds of millions for Hamas or cash for clunker scams, to hundreds of billions for bogus corporation bailouts, failed stimulus bills, pork laden Omnibus holdups, or a few trillion dollars for the national budget, money was no object. You say this national health care will cost 800 billion, they say it will cost two trillion, Obama says, it doesn't matter just get it passed!

But to stop Islamic terrorists from killing Americans its, "Where, oh where, are we going to get that kind of money?" That's not funny it's pathetic.

Yet what is even more pathetic is that Obama already has the answer, tax the rich, again.

As we have repeatedly seen since this turkey was sworn in, after the holiday and his announcement, Old Bird Legs will undoubtedly continue to be off somewhere doing the I'm-so-sorry-about-that-evil-empire-America-turkey-trot-shuffle and bowing to foreign leaders while our sons and daughters fight for our honor, rights, freedoms and our very lives.

At least for the bravery and sacrifices by our Armed Forces, which has kept us safe despite the lack of support from this current administration, we can all be thankful.

Likewise when my family and I sit down tomorrow and give thanks, I will thank God that this current President was not our CIC in 1941. With the way this turkey neck has dithered over military matters, if he had been, we would all be having sushi and sauerkraut for dinner instead of turkey and stuffing.

I wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving and ask that you pray for our Troops.

God Bless America

Semper Fi,
Mike

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