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Obama Gets a Flight Suit

(Bumped up from yesterday)

Check out the “package” on Barack. Since it is a cartoon codpiece, however, it probably is not a a genuine replica. But it is official–Barack Obama is now an action figure:

obamas-codpiece2

Seems that Barack forgot his problem with George Bush’s policy of “air raiding villages” (I know you are shocked and I should have forewarned you):

Let’s note that since taking office Obama has offered up an additional 21,000 troops but is still far short of the 30,000 requested by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan. The policy currently being pursued along the no-man’s land of the border demarcating Afghanistan and Pakistan is reportedly under the control of the CIA. I do not doubt that most of the targets of these strikes are people we believe are considered important to the Taliban. Unfortunately, they are living with their families and we are killing civilians.

This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the United States is killing women and children. Since this conflict ultimately is a counter-insurgency operation, inflicting these kinds of casualties tends to be counter-productive and emboldens the enemy.

The U.S. stepped up its attacks using drones starting last August at the direction of President Bush. Looks like President Obama is continuing this policy. I suspect most Americans will shrug their shoulders and not give it another moment’s thought. Some in Europe, however, clearly are troubled by the civilian losses. Because we are looking to Europe to pony up more soldiers to fight in Europe the civilian casualties likely will be a new rally point to forge a stronger front to resist increasing Europe’s role in the Afghan war.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    an action figure of an inaction person..lol

  • candymarl

    It appears that THE ONE who would end all wars, by merely walking into the WH, is not working out as the anti-war folks thought.

    Dead bombed civilians under GWB? An outrage! Under Obama? Crickets.

    BTW it is an outrage. But the hypocrisy is stunning.

  • Peggy Sue

    You know this is one area that the Far Left has been amazingly silent on: the uptick in the drone attacks on Pakistan and an increased [though short of recommendations] presence in Afghanistan.

    And what is the plan militarily? I listened to Hillary yesterday about this multi-pronged approach including development, aide and cooperation. That all sounds good to me as long as there are tight handles on where exactly the money is going.

    But what are our military personnel suppose to be doing? Training, policing, protecting the border areas? I still haven’t heard anyone really speak to that. And I’m assuming there is a plan. Right?

  • NomNomNom

    here’s a piece of it. do you feel secure yet?
    http://www.canada.com/news/Troop+surge+makes+Afghan+winnable+general+says/1467123/story.html
    (I think the general needs a long talk with the
    Canadians).

  • rw

    funny how the more time passes the more this adm. resembles the last, but worse, this one is blatantly hypocritical. so much for the bs fed to the public during the primaries.

    isn’t the violence in Chicago also getting worse…his home town….as stated above, what happened to the promise that as the messiah with a speech-(impediment without a teleprompter)- entered the WH all ill in the world disappear.

  • http://ezinearticles.com/?Three-Basic-Parenting-Styles&id=744499 Northwest rain

    I have heard that in celebration of Jenna’s wedding the Orange stain(blog) ran a series of photos — showing Jenna’s wedding and the death and destruction caused by bush’s war.

    To be fair there now needs to be a companion piece — the 0zero family romping with their dog — next to photos of the dead from the latest miscalculation.

    During the Vietnam was rather than hit civilian targets (as ordered) some pilots would jettison their load over the ocean, fly around and then return to the carrier. These are the guys that figured out that the Vietnam war was a dirty rotten lie by the white house.

  • I’m a Linda too

    LJ thank you.

    Yes, and being Weary Barry has a habit of EXAGERATING anything himself, I would not be surprised he would go for this as well. Good speech reading via teleprompter…or imaginary large cod piece (wishful thinking-no doubt). only, it would be the load of shit he carries, pushed to the front to make things easier for his supporters and aides, get gratification and those brown lips at one time.

    But all of this is a bit hard to swallow.

    Weary Barry is basically even copying Bush’ procedures that he campaigned against.

    Weary Barry ask for 83 billion extra funding for his 2 (right) wars for this year (after Bush’s funding) and then asked for, what, 120 billion for next year in the budget.

    Then Nancy Pelosi comes up this weak with saying they need an additional 94 billion dollars for their (right) wars.

    HELLOOO///ANYONE????

    I remember when the Democrats were complaining that Bush was spending 4 billion dollars a month. Who knew they were upset that that wasn’t ENOUGH!

    And now, Obama is steadily increasing the attacks on innocent Afghans. Murdering women and children. And it is always the people who need the most help that will suffer from our actions.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TAPXZeS7w

  • tminu

    The families of those killed need to know that Obama is not even eligible to order this, as he is not contractually president. They need to prosecute him as a war criminal.

  • tminu

    They should sue him personally for damages, since there is no way he can prove he’s actually legal president of these United States. Any Pakistani lawyers read these blogs?

  • mountainaires
  • Hank

    BO doesn’t torture terrorist he kills civilians. (Men, Women and Children)

  • Patience

    I agree with candymarl — the hypocrisy is stunning. Why aren’t the media in high dudgeon over this and the general ramping up of war in Afghanistan — or for that matter the failure to withdraw troops from Iraq as promised early in his campaign, delaying the closure of Gitmo, FISA, etc. If this POTUS raped a nun the media headline would be, “PRESIDENT IS DEEP INTO RELIGION”.

    While I suspected during the campaign that Obama was only an opportunistic blatherer, I still held out a little hope that he would deliver when it came to war. WRONG. What substantive change has this POTUS presented? My fear that HRC would be ill-used as SOS is coming back. SHE’S on the firing line while our lazy POTUS is lapping up sycophancy. Just wait, she’s going to take more heat than he will over the state of foreign affairs.

  • Texas Playwright

    Welcome to We the People holding you accountable, bho the fraud.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    president deep in religion..lol..lol..lol.roflmao..

  • tminu

    And he’s OK with allowing babies born alive of late term abortions to expire from cold, want of nutrition or care, or just thrown in a Hefty bag–but not pouring water on a terrorist’s face. Just want to get things straight.

  • Texas Playwright

    Maybe HRC will take more heat in the beginning, Patience. I think the public is waking up to her character and bho the fraud’s lack thereof. I also think Hillary will know when to make her next move, including leaving State.

  • tminu

    Deep into religion…that’s sadly funny.

    The media must have barely had souls to begin with to have sold out the residual so cheaply to cover for this FRAUD.

  • Peggy Sue

    Thanks for the link, Nom. So, this will be another clear and hold operation with too few troops but a lot of happy talk.

    Iraq revisited. We don’t seem to learn much from our mistakes.

    And no. This doesn’t make me feel secure. Just a little sick.

  • TeakwoodKite

    LJ a fine addition to my new but growing collection of BO memorabilia When I get the BO in flight suit I will put right next to the Chia-BO in a place honor. Normally that would mean on the fireplace mantel but Woody and Buzz Lightyear have fist dibs.

    Then again, it seems like BO needs to log some flight hours, so perhaps I will box him up and send him around the country, like an old suitcase collecting ports of entry stickers, he will fly across the country. I dare say he would make a fruitcake jealous

    In case no one was not watching the primary debates, BO said he would send missile strikes into “no mans land” if given “actionable intelligence”. If the Intel was right and there were “targets”, then women and children died, how do you square it?

    What I do not understand is why BO is not aware of how the Soviets bombed the crap out the civilian populations in Afghanistan, while we started a proxy war with Russia, which spawned many an evil thing.

    The Afghan and Pakistan people that live in this region remember well the last 20 years. They will, without hesitation, make a connection that the US is no different than the Soviets.

    Why are these folks still in a Rumsfield state of mind?

    I used to have a concern that BO, if elected, could not close the deal. Now I am concerned that he can’t even get a deal.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Texas Playwright, I call it…

    The Powell Syndrome.

  • http://www.sonicninjakitty.wordpress.com Sonic Ninja Kitty

    Make room under the bus–someone’s going to get tossed.

  • FLDemFem

    You can sue a sitting President. The Supreme Court said so when those women wanted to sue Bill Clinton. So, sue him. Now. Oh, and speaking of action figures, check these out.
    http://www.jailbreaktoys.com/The_Obama_Action_Figure_p/ob000.htm

    Love the name of the manufacturer, Jailbreak Toys. Look at the Inauguration one, they have him in a gold suit, like Elvis or Liberace. They also brag about having donated one dollar to his campaign for each one sold. Oh, and they raised $10,000. So that means that somewhere out in America, or the rest of the world, there are 10,000 Obummer action figures. I wonder how many of them are still intact. I know mine wouldn’t be, if I had one. :D You can also get an unpainted one, so you can do him up anyway you like. Perhaps with prison stripes? They show some of the customer painted ones, he is done up like Robin Hood, among other things. One of the customer-painted ones has the title “Suckadelic” on the base. Yeah, he took the country for suckers, he sure did.

  • NomNomNom

    Why are these folks still in a Rumsfield state of mind?
    Because they are run by the same entities: defense contractors and the financial/Wall Street sector.
    These wars for bogus reasons, these bailouts, these undermining of foreign governments and economies: all makes perfect sense when you look at who it benefits.
    This is not a case of US strategy gone wrong: this is the strategy: to make money and increase the power of these groups. It’s working great.

  • Mercedes

    Well, none of this is surprising considering Obama has retained George W’s Secretary of Defense. I don’t really know about the rest of the power structure for military/defense, but I don’t remember hearing of any earthshaking changes. So until something happens to dispel the notion, I will continue to suspect that Obama is really the Presidential pick of the Neocons. They have been playing both parties for a pack of fools. Not being fools themselves, it is unlikely they spelled out in detail all of their plans for the New American Century, or whatever they call their grand vision. Right now I see a two prong attack against Muslim extremists, one military, which Obama is obligingly continuing and the other sort of a global psy-op with a messianic, dark-skinned American President with a Muslim name. Who can resist?

    I saw a great bumper sticker the other day. “Barack is the sound I make when I vomit.”

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    Sadly, the majority of Americans have no idea that one is bombing Pakistan. The news is full of gardens and dinner dates and that cute ‘lil doggy and a swingset for the girls and Mechelle’s fashion (non)sense. When I ask people what they think about what is going on in Pakistan, they have no idea anything is going on in Pakistan.

    When will the MSM ever report real news? Will they ever again? Unbelievable!

  • JohnnyB

    Is this possible? More bombs than when we originally invaded Afghanistan? Why? Where are they being dropped? What are the military targets?

    Obama Bombs Afghanistan With Record Number of Bombs in April
    http://votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=1507

    By Bruce Rolfsen
    Navy Times

    Air Force, Navy and other coalition warplanes dropped a record number of bombs in Afghanistan during April, Air Forces Central figures show. In the past month, warplanes released 438 bombs, the most ever.

    April also marked the fourth consecutive month that the number of bombs dropped rose, after a decline starting last July. The munitions were released during 2,110 close-air support sorties.

    The actual number of airstrikes was higher because the AFCent numbers don’t include attacks by helicopters and special operations gunships.

    The numbers also don’t include strafing runs or launches of small missiles.

    Over Iraq, 26 bombs were released during 767 strike sorties.

    The killing of civilians will be the reason we get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. The citizens will totally rebel, as they are going to do in Pakistan.
    We may attempt throw out the Taliban in Pakistan, but the government will be the one to go.

    The DRONE attacks (against the Geneva Convention because they insidcriminately kill civilians) have supposedly killed 16 “Targets” and over 500 civilians. Each civilian represents 100 or more relatives or tribe members that will seek revenge.
    Each death breeds more fighters.

  • http://ontheseventhday.wordpress.com/ Al

    Wondering aloud if the action figure comes with its own teleprompter and puppet-strings?

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    Yep. That’s our beloved despised POTUS.

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