Obama saw the war in Afghanistan as being more valid than the war in Iraq. As for Iraq, it isn't our business how other people run their country.
In fact it is important to all of us how other people run their countries because one day we may be strongly effected by their policies. This has happened throughout history. America was at war with Iraq and Afghanistan and Barrack Obama then decides, after many good Service people were killed or wounded, that Iraq was isn't worthwhile (it was) but another is. Then he announces a retreat from that war as well.
In other American wars there was a continuity of policy, often lasting years as with the Cold war, but everyone knew where America stood. Now there is confusion and malaise, and all coming from the American side. America looks foolish and weak as a result because there is no longer any continuity. This is no longer American Wars being fought, it is Presidential wars, one who decides attack and the next who decides retreat. And as a result foreign interests are already having more interest and input into US politics and policies. America ran from Iraq and now they are retreating from a country that is as third world as they come. This is really opening the US to long term danger.
Americans are getting killed during these 'training projects' in Afghanistan. Get the hell out now. You have lost. Get the planes ready and move on and the hell with those training programs. You're only training the enemy anyway because the Taleban will be back in power the moment the last plan leaves. ! You want a finely coordinated retreat while Americans are being killed? Run before there are more good people killed.
As for the bailouts, the president doesn't have to have business experience to act on the powers cranted to him by the constitution and the laws congress has enacted.
So he can buy any company or corporation he wants, fire the president and board of that company, and just have his people take over. He can give tax dollars to any person who fits his personal criteria in order to start up a company of which he approves, again despite not having any training or experience. And you're saying this is okay because it's in the Constitution? I had respected the US Constitution as being second only to the Magna Carta as one of the most important documents ever devised by man but this seems to illegitimatize the entire work of the forefathers if any politician can take taxpayer money and give it away to their political cronies. What surprises further is that many of the American people seem to be okay with this. No wonder Hugo Chavez supports Barrack Obama!
We should have never gone into Iraq to begin with. It was only right to get out when we did. If they people of Iraq want the Muslim Brotherhood to rule their country, so be it. It takes time to withdraw from a war. We have to coordinate movement of our equipment and troops as well as wrap up any training projects we have going on. That is taking place now.
If the people want the Muslim Brotherhood so be it? I remember a Dem in the Clinton Administration once, during the Clinton administration saying that if the people of Cuba want a communist government they should have one. You don't know anything of the Muslim Brotherhood, do you? You'll see it in Libya and Iraq in a decade.
The projection for a reduction in spending is being hashed out now. Obama hasn't had much cooperation from congress on this, which he must have in order to develop a budget.
Really? Where does BHO want to reduce spending? Does it come anywhere near $1,000,000,000,000 a year?
Spending cuts are being negotiated, but the Republicans want to cut medicare and SS as a part of the deal and Obama will not do it. Cutting SS and Medicare will not effect the budget and debt. It is a program funded directly by working Americans.
So you think all that money is stored away is a safe place somewhere ready to be accessed when you need it?
The jobs bills Obama has put before congress involved rebuilding the infrastructure which will create jobs. He also wants to stop corporate welfare for corporations that ship jobs over seas. There is a lot our government can do to effect job growth.
And all these jobs will be paid for with money the American people don't have, keeping in mind that the government has to repay over $16,000,000,000,000 before they have nothing. So how will they pay for it? Borrow the money? Print it? My guess is on the latter because their credit has already been downgraded and will be downgraded again. Inflation is coming.
He also wants to stop corporate welfare for corporations that ship jobs over seas. There is a lot our government can do to effect job growth.
How is he going to stop corporations from moving overseas? Force people to stay? Put up a Berlin type Wall? At one time not that long ago everyone wanted to invest in the US, that is was a safe place to put your money, and entrepreneurial types were confident that this was the place to follow their dream. What went wrong? Have you given that much thought?
Maybe it was all George Bush, huh?