Perry: Obama is endangering troops

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20124198-503544/perry-obama-is-endangering-troops/

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry accused President Obama Saturday of endangering U.S. troops by announcing plans to end the nation's military role in Iraq by Christmas.
"The last thing you want to do is put those men and women's lives in peril, and I think that's what the president's done by making a political statement to his base that he's going to be out of Iraq by a date certain," Perry said.

The Texas governor, who had joined a number of his Republican rivals in criticizing the president's planned troop withdrawal on Friday, got more pointed as he spoke to reporters in Iowa, where Perry was joining one of the state's Republican members of Congress, Steve King, on a pheasant hunt.

Perry, an Air Force veteran who noted that he was also "commander in chief of a fairly substantial group of individuals in the National Guard of Texas," called Mr. Obama's decision "bad public policy" and "bad tactics."

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Rick Perry like to play dress-up, too:

[Wounded Bear]

1. Remember the "flak" jacket Stephen Colbert used to wear on Stewart?

Looks like that. :rofl:

[stevedeshazer]

19. Yeah, and remember Joe Lieberman as Bert the Turtle.

[booley]

2. Once again Perry provides material for the Jon and Stephen

Taking troops out of a war zone will put them in danger? What were they in before?

And how is the US supposed to leave Iraq? Does Perry think we should wait for all the Iraqis to be at work and them move our stuff out of the country really fast in a U-haul?

[Nancy Waterman]

3. Wouldn't endangering the troops be ending their immunity

If they stay, they would be sitting ducks for any charges that might come along, legit or not.
Perry, as usual, has it backwards. But it makes nice pablum for the base.

[RC]

8. Correct and it was Iraq that said they wanted our troops out by the end of the year.

[TwilightGardener]

4. I'm sure they'd all love it if something bad happens. They're probably praying for it.

Troops are nothing to them. American lives are nothing to them. Everything and everyone is a potential hostage or a means of leverage.

[JCMach1]

5. Idiot... who would kill Americans if they are going any way...

not much political gain there...

[tblue]

6. Tell him to tell it to his N-head rock.

Nobody else cares what he has to say.

[gateley]

7. Well then, I will have to defer to Governor Perry's extensive foreign

affairs and intelligence experience. Damn that Obama! Bringing troops home after only four, five tours?! What on earth is he thinking!

[NYC_SKP]

9. Impossible, Obama wants to keep them there longer and it's actually Bush who's getting them out!

It's all over the Bloggosphere, Ah Swear!

:rofl:

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Treasonous Rightwing A$$hole. eom

[Ezlivin]

11. Perry: General Robert E. Lee is endangering Rebel troops

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry accused General Lee Saturday of endangering Confederate troops by announcing plans to end the nation's civil war.

"The last thing you want to do is put our slave's lives in peril and I think that's what the general's done by committing to end the necessary war," Perry said.

The Texas governor, who had joined a number of his Republican rivals in criticizing the generals's planned troop withdrawal on Friday, got more pointed as he spoke to reporters in Iowa, where Perry was joining one of the state's Republican members of Congress, Steve King, on a coon hunt.

Perry, an Air Force veteran who noted that he was also "commander in chief of a fairly substantial group of individuals in the National Guard of Texas," called General Lee's decision "bad public policy" and "bad tactics."

[kentuck]

12. Ha-ha...ha...ha !

:rofl:

[spanone]

13. macho macho mannnn....hey bruther perry, you don't know shit about shit.

[stevedeshazer]

14. I'm not a hunter, but...

I don't think taking a contingent of press with you spells a successful hunt.

Unless they're just shooting previously caged birds in the type of canned hunt Dick Cheney likes. You know, as in defenseless.

[robdogbucky]

15. Oh, RIcky, you've got some splainin' to do......

Iraqi PM: US Withdrawal Triggered by Immunity Issue

October 22, 2011

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the U.S. decision to withdraw troops from Iraq by the end of the year came after the Iraqi government refused to guarantee legal immunity for U.S. service members in Iraq.

Maliki spoke to reporters Saturday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal. The United States had asked for immunity for a small group of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq to help with training and counter influence of neighboring Iran.

About 39,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, down from a high of about 165,000 in 2008.

Also Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed that the withdrawal of troops will not end the U.S. commitment to Iraq...

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Iraqi-PM-US-Wit...

[Arkana]

23. What makes me sick is that if McCain had won, he'd have tried to keep them there

without immunity.

Gotta "stay the course". :puke:

[stevedeshazer]

16. I'm of the impression that this guy couldn't find his ass with two hands and a flashlight.

He's dumber than George W. Bush!

[Ilsa]

17. But the 4200 troops killed in Iraq weren't put in danger by Shrub? nt

[stevedeshazer]

18. Not to mention all the civilian deaths, injuries and displacement.

But over in Conservo-Fantasy Land, this is never mentioned. It is verboten.

[Arkana]

20. Rick Perry is endangering the world supply of hair gel.

[quaker bill]

21. There are no tactics

when the war is over. There is no agreement to allow our forces to remain in Iraq past 12/31/11, just as GW Bush arranged it. Keeping troops in a country where they are not welcome is not "public policy" of any sort. The troops are only endangered by republican policy that will leave them unemployed when they get home.

Rick Perry is a joke.

[Historic NY]

22. C&C of Texas National Guard....oh my rick the battlefield commander.