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This has to rank as one of the stupidest threads I've seen in a very long time. Of course, I no longer read basso's multiple stupidities.
great. I am sure that did a lot to get those guys home which was the whole point of my post. meanwhile, thousands are being sent to a country with no such natural resources. Telling them to stop growing drugs just might not work in Afghanistan.
Watched the vid... Where's the POTUS? All I see is some ignorant redneck glad-handing with a bunch of men and women in uniform...
I am not sure what this post has to do with the topic but just curious. Do you support remaining in Afghanistan?
The troop withdrawal was a plan put into effect by the Bush administration before Obama took office. The thread title is misleading..Bush is not the POTUS. Although you can refer to him as Mr. President, as the title will stay with him (and Clinton and every former President), the President of the United States is Obama..and although he may not be greeting troops while they come home, he has visited them in hospitals and overseas when he can. I don't recall Bush ever greeting troops when they came home during his Presidency either, although, like Obama he visited them in Hospitals and overseas.
Does H.R 1591 ring a bell?? On March 27, 2007, Congress passed H.R. 1591, which called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq by March 2008. However, President Bush vetoed the bill and the House of Representatives failed to override the veto. On July 12, 2007 the House passed H.R. 2956 by a vote of 223 to 201, for redeployment (or withdrawal) of U.S. armed forces out of Iraq. The resolution requires most troops to withdraw from Iraq by April 1, 2008. Mr. Obama speech on February 27,2009 On February 27, 2009, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, President Barack Obama announced a deadline for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. According to the president, by August 31, 2010, after nearly seven and a half years of United States military engagement in Iraq, all but a "transitional force" of 35,000 to 50,000 troops will be withdrawn from the Middle Eastern nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq
Obama visits Dallas to greet troops: Post made about how Obama should be focusing on other matters, not going down to Dallas for a photo op. Obama doesn't visit Dallas to greet troops: Post made about Bush meeting them (since he lives around Dallas), intimating that he is a better president somehow. Win/win, right Commodore?
