Rumsfield Responds (Obama Speech LIES)

Once again we see Obama and this Administration having a hard time with the truth when it comes to the Bush Administration. One thing that Obama didn't have trouble with last night with that speech to West Point was leaving out "God Bless our Troops" from the speech that was released in advance to the media. Why leave that out?

Quotes about his speech continue to resonate around the Net:

Obama Hard and Soft, Right and Left [Fred Thompson]

I was wondering how he was going to pull off the famous Obama split tonight.
He did it chronologically, and in two ways.

First, in the speech itself:
In the first part of his speech he sounded like Winston Churchill.
In the second part of his speech, he sounded like Lady Churchill.

Secondly, with regard to his course of action:
Commit troops for the Right, and then
Announce their withdrawal prematurely, in time for the 2012 election — for the Left.

It was clear for the world to see that we are without the most important ingredient for a chance of success: a determined president whose heart is in the effort.

Corner at National Review

"As I commented on the live thread, I wonder what was going through the cadets' heads when they heard their commander-in-chief speak in a foreign accent when he named the places they will be fighting when they graduate. I'd rather my president speak with an American accent and not a Koranic accent." (Source: Kristinn)

"West Point has a tradition, codified in regulation. “A Cadet will not lie, steal, or tolerate anyone who does.”When a liar can not be sentenced in any other way, the Corps of Cadets commits “Silence”. They only speak or interact with someone when it is their duty.When I saw the way they reacted, it looked to me as if they “Silenced” him." (Source: donmeaker

The above statement sent a cold chill up my spine after having spent years around the military in various locations. Cannot fathom what was going through the cadet's minds during the speech which was all over the place. Why are Obama's speeches continuing to get worse?

Once again we ask the question, Who is Obama? Can anyone in the media answer that question? We don't know for sure where he was born, who was his father, anything about most of his educational years including college. At Columbia no one can remember him, and we are still waiting to discover if went to Columbia on a foreign scholarship.

We know about the Harvard Law Review which makes one wonder how he got that position when he cannot write or speak that well. Uses a teleprompter to make the simplist speeches. His first book was ghost written by Bill Ayers -- still waiting to find out who ghose wrote the 2nd book. "Dreams of my Father" contained stories that pertained to Ayers in some instances not Obama. Some bio!

Just who is Barack Hussein Obama who attended Rev Wright's anti-white/anti-American Church for 20 years? The American people deserve answers but crickets continue to chirp.

We believe that anyone running for President should be an open book including their passport records which we do not understand why they have ever been sealed. Anyone asking the American people to vote for them as the President and Leader of the Free World has a right to know every detail but in Obama's case we know so little about him and only then what the Obama people want us to know. How can one man know so many radicals including Communist? Question after question goes unanswered and many members of the media continue to cover for Obama including last night.

Maybe he realized that Chris Matthews was right, he was in enemy territory at West Point after all and decided to deny them His blessing.

There is one thing about former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld that has always stood out and that is the fact he is not afraid to speak his mind. Everyone needs to read what he has to say and ask themselves why Obama and his Administration always blame someone else. Obama tooks months to deliver this bomb of a speech which brings into question who is advising him but another question that will go unanswered. Someone needs to tell Obama that swiveling his head all the time to read his teleprompters is very annoying and the sign of someone with no core feelings as he needs to read what to say not speak from the heart.

The good news is that he is sending 30,000 troops (we think) and the bad news is that he telegraphed withdrawal so the Taliban/al Qaeda hide out and do sneak attacks knowing in three years they can take over the whole country as Obama cuts and runs.

Obama is making Carter look good which we didn't think possible.

Rumsfeld Responds
December 2, 2009

The statement from Rumsfeld:

“In his speech to the nation last night, President Obama claimed that ‘Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.’ Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as Secretary of Defense, deserves a response.”

“I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006. If any such requests occurred, ‘repeated’ or not, the White House should promptly make them public. The President's assertion does a disservice to the truth and, in particular, to the thousands of men and women in uniform who have fought, served and sacrificed in Afghanistan.”

“In the interest of better understanding the President's announcement last night, I suggest that the Congress review the President’s assertion in the forthcoming debate and determine exactly what requests were made, who made them, and where and why in the chain of command they were denied.”

This is true as far as I know and conforms with what Steve Hayes reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD in October:

Perhaps more infuriating for Bush veterans was the suggestion by [Robert] Gibbs that the Bush administration ignored requests for more troops. It's nonsense, they say. McKiernan wanted more troops--he asked for three additional brigades in the summer of 2008--but he understood that he could have them only when they became available. "McKiernan was making requests down the line," says a Pentagon official, "and late in 2008 we did have the ability to commit more forces. So we did." Indeed, Bush sent nearly 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan before he left office, including one brigade that had been repurposed from Iraq.

One Bush veteran asks, "If it's true that the Bush administration sat on these troop requests for eight months, is the White House suggesting that the Pentagon was incompetent or negligent or both? That would be a good question to put to the defense secretary--and President Obama is in a position to make him talk."
I couldn't reach Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, but I did talk to a senior defense official who serves with him. This person stressed that Gates has gone to great lengths to avoid being dragged into political fights between administrations. Nonetheless, he offered a strong rebuke to the present White House political team.
"There was no request on anyone's desk for eight months," said the defense official. "There was not a request that went to the White House because we didn't have forces to commit. So on the facts, they're wrong."

Source: Weekly Standard