{"id":30421,"date":"2012-06-18T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30421"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:44:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:44:52","slug":"plouffe-republicans-want-more-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30421","title":{"rendered":"Plouffe: Republicans want more war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sends us a link from Politico<\/a> in which David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign adviser and current senior adviser in the White House, declares that Republicans want more war;<\/p>\n

Host George Stephanopoulos pressed Plouffe on his statement, asking \u201cmore war? Where are the Republicans calling for more war?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, listen, the point is, George, our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war,\u201d Plouffe said. \u201cI think Gov. Romney called it a tragic mistake, oppose a timeline in Afghanistan. So \u2014 and, by the way, you know, that also has fiscal and economic consequences, because we have to focus on rebuilding this country. And that’s what the president wants to do, is take half the money from ending the wars and focus on rebuilding this country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, it’s probably impossible for anyone to want more war than Obama, given his policies with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt…who else? Oh, yeah…Africa. And Plouffe is conflating the calls for victory in Iraq and Afghanistan with a thirst for war. Republicans wanted a conclusion to the war in Iraq, not a sudden withdrawal which results in hundreds of deaths of Iraqis because we didn’t end the war, we just up and left. And we’re about to make the same mistake in Afghanistan. The Obama Administration was unwilling to fight the war to a successful conclusion, so they’re just picking up and leaving.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, where is “half the money from ending the wars” coming from, Dave? You can’t count on that money being there, just because the Administration plans on being spent somewhere besides the war. It sounds like that vacuous anti-war bullshit. Is the campaign slogan for the administration this year going to be “Make Love Not War”, too?<\/p>\n

Yeah, I want the troops home, too, but not if we have to send the next generation to finish what this administration is unwilling to complete now. Like this generation had to do for my generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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