{"id":31535,"date":"2012-08-15T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31535"},"modified":"2012-08-15T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T22:30:24","slug":"panetta-notices-that-there-is-a-war-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31535","title":{"rendered":"Panetta notices that “there is a war going on”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the guy in charge of slashing defense spending and leading the withdrawal from Afghanistan is upset that neither Romney nor Ryan mentioned the war in Afghanistan when they rolled out their partnership this weekend according to Politico<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Neither Mitt Romney nor Paul Ryan mentioned the war in Afghanistan during their big running mate roll-out in Virginia Saturday. Barack Obama gives it only a brief mention in his own stump speeches.<\/p>\n

Leon Panetta seems to have had enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realize that there are a lot of other things going on around this country that can draw our attention, from the Olympics, to political campaigns to droughts, to some of the tragedies we\u2019ve seen in communities around the country,\u201d the defense secretary said at Tuesday\u2019s Pentagon press briefing. \u201cI thought it was important to remind the American people that there is a war going on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the guy who spends $33,000 every weekend to be with his family while all of the deployed soldiers in his charge don’t get the same privilege. Speaking of pretentious idiots;<\/p>\n

“From watching the campaign debate so far, it’s hard to tell America is still a country at war,\u201d said Paul Rieckhoff, executive directotr [sic] of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. \u201cNeither candidate nor party has focused enough on Afghanistan, or on the issues facing our troops, veterans and their families at home. Our men and women are fighting and dying overseas for our country and both candidates have a responsibility to drive the national dialogue about issues of war and defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Says the guy whose main focus over the last few months has been to urge NYC’s mayor Bloomberg to throw Rieckhoff a welcome home parade. I say throw Rieckhoff a parade because it seems that he’s the only one who wants one.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why the American public would be disengaged for the war issue. Well, except that the Obama Administration has been ranting and raving about how the war is over because he got bin Laden and focusing on the fact that the troops are coming home.<\/p>\n

While I agree that both parties need to talk more about the war, their plans and about veterans, what does panetta really expect? He’s slashing defense spending, eroding veterans’ benefits and yet he expects us to believe that he thinks there’s a war going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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