Obama accuses our troops of murdering

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Registered: 08-28-2008
Obama accuses our troops of murdering
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 1:57pm
Obama accuses our troops of murdering civilians in afghanistan.

Sarah says that could disqualify him from becomming commander-in-chief:


http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2008/10/palin-says-obama-attack-on-us-troops-in.html
Obama Accuses Our Armed Forces of Attacking Civilians in Afghanistan

Obama blood libels America’s Armed Forces with accusation of “air raiding villages and killing civilians”


The following was reported in the Nashua Telegraph, and there is a YouTube video as well.


    “Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there,’’ Obama said.

Our quarrel is not with Obama’s assertion that we need more troops in Afghanistan, but rather with his emulation of John Kerry by accusing the Armed Forces of the United States of behaving like Genghis Khan. It is easy to imagine how Osama bin Laden might use Obama’s statement to recruit Afghans to his cause: “A U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate says his country’s Armed Forces are bombing your villages and killing your wives and children indiscriminately. If you join Al Qaida, you can fight back.” Note that Osama bin Laden need not prove to his listeners that our Armed Forces attacked any villages or killed any civilians, he can just tell them to take Senator and would-be President Barack Obama’s word for it.


This is the sort of thing that can literally kill our service members–including not only John McCain’s and Sarah Palin’s sons, but also the son of Obama’s own running mate, who also is in the Armed Forces. It is clear and convincing evidence that Obama is totally unfit to command the Armed Forces of the United States, and every service member and people with family members in the Armed Forces needs to see this.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 2:41pm

a) Old news


b) He doesn't accuse troops of "murder"


However, you can't fight a successful counter-guerilla operation only from the air.

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 6:05pm

We are killing civilians there.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 6:12pm
Bullpuckey:

Killing Afghan Civilians?



Palin said that Obama had accused American troops of doing nothing but killing civilians, a claim she called "reckless" and "untrue."

Palin: Now, Barack Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians. And such a reckless, reckless comment and untrue comment, again, hurts our cause.


Obama did say that troops in Afghanistan were killing civilians. Here’s the whole quote, from a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

Obama (August 2007): We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.

The Associated Press fact-checked this one, and found that in fact U.S troops were killing more civilians at the time than insurgents: "As of Aug. 1, the AP count shows that while militants killed 231 civilians in attacks in 2007, Western forces killed 286. Another 20 were killed in crossfire that can’t be attributed to one party." Afghan President Hamid Karzai had expressed concern about these civilian killings, a concern President Bush said he shared.

Whether Obama said that this was "all we're doing" is debatable. He said that we need to have enough troops so that we're "not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians," but did not say that troops are doing nothing else.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-05-2006
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 6:14pm

Isn't it interesting how things sound when you take them out of context?


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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 6:34pm
Hey, now! If it weren't for being able to take things out of context, many conservatives wouldn't even HAVE an arguments, LOL!