Can we please cut the crap that Obama is Bush?

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berni_mccoy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Mar-05-10 08:35 AM
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Can we please cut the crap that Obama is Bush?
   
I'm hearing this far too often for what should be a relatively informed group. This is especially true with respect to the military. If Bush's policies were being maintained...

1. We'd not be reducing troops in Iraq as we currently are
2. We'd most likely have attacked Iran already or at a minimum, escalated the situation with them or between them and Israel
3. We'd most likely be *out* of Afghanistan (see Robb's excellent post as to why: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... )
4. We sure as hell wouldn't have heard Bush talk about repealing DADT in his SOTU or had a commission follow-up to begin the process of removing it (let alone hear an Admiral say it should be repealed)
5. Dan Choi would not have been reinstated
6. We'd still be torturing people

 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7848631

[USA4ME]

He's right; Dear Leader is not Bush.  Bush is much more intelligent than Dear Leader could ever hope to be.  Of course, I've flushed waste down the toliet that's smarter than Dear Leader, but that's beside the point.

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[JohnnyReb]

Bushlite, huh.....or would that be Bushdark?

[DumbAss Tanker]

1. We'd not be reducing troops in Iraq as we currently are

Obama is actually just executing the treaty and plan signed off on by Bush.  And apparently the Iraqis are suggesting now that maybe we could leave more troops in country than even Bush planned.
FAIL

2. We'd most likely have attacked Iran already or at a minimum, escalated the situation with them or between them and Israel

Iran is doing a great job of escalation all by themselves, there just isn't any coherent US opposition to them now.  With Congress in Democrat hands, Bush wasn't able to muster any support for it anyway.
FAIL

3. We'd most likely be *out* of Afghanistan (see Robb's excellent post as to why: http://www.democraticunde...nd.com/discuss/duboard.ph... )

Ummm, okay.  Sane people think Obama reluctantly went along with a course of action already set up by Bush, except for setting a deadline so the Taliban would know when it was safe to come back and take over without opposition.
FAIL

4. We sure as hell wouldn't have heard Bush talk about repealing DADT in his SOTU or had a commission follow-up to begin the process of removing it (let alone hear an Admiral say it should be repealed)

Well, I have to give you that one.  And an admiral...well, I'll just leave that at 'it figures.'

5. Dan Choi would not have been reinstated

Who?

6. We'd still be torturing people

We are, but now it's our own people.  And setting more of them up to be killed, too.
FAIL

[Randy]

Stupid DUmmies, they think CARTER is spelled B-u-s-h. 

[Karin]

Dan Choi is a gay Arabic linguist who was reinstated.  What an obscure reference!  Let me guess, the OP is light in the loafers. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Dan Choi is a gay Arabic linguist who was reinstated.  What an obscure reference!  Let me guess, the OP is light in the loafers. 

I'm sure you're fabulously correct.