To The Shores Of Tripoli Benghazi: Special "Days Not Weeks" Edition

One senses a certain chill in the feet of the Old Gray Lady as they cover their President's latest foreign adventure and report on Obama's delusional "days, not weeks" timeline for US military involvement:

Obama Warns Libya, but Attacks Go On

Gosh, that headline is a real bunker-buster on my morale. Are they suggesting that Obama is impotent and irrelevant?

It gets worse.  Much worse:

Mr. Obama used tough language that was at times reminiscent of President George W. Bush before the war in Iraq.

OMG - the Times broke out the dreaded Bush comparison?  If they use the word "Cheneyesque" (and on the topic of Gitmo, they just might), you will know the love affair is finally over.

The Times plays Hamlet to Obama's, well, Hamlet.  Can we find criticism of his dithering?  Yes we can:

“If Qaddafi does not comply with the resolution, the international community will impose consequences, and the resolution will be enforced through military action,” Mr. Obama said, laying out a policy decision made after several weeks in which the administration sent conflicting signals about its willingness to use force to aid the rebels at a time of upheaval throughout the Arab world.

And can we find support for the dithering?  Yes we can:

But unlike Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama cast the United States in a supporting, almost reluctant role, reflecting the clear desire of the Pentagon, which has been strongly resistant to another American war in the Middle East.

Ahh, well, we don't want to get involved but what's a superpower to do when both France and the Arab League bat their baby blues?

Say it with me - they told Glenn that if he voted for McCain we would be taken into wars with neither Congressional approval nor public debate.

SENDING A STRONG SIGNAL:  The Times gets inside the decision process and reassures us that Obama is commited to vacillation and weakness.  After explaining that this is Hillary's war, they deliver this jaw-dropper:

On Thursday, during an hour-and-a -half meeting, Mr. Obama signed off on allowing American pilots to join Europeans and Arabs in military strikes against the Libyan government.

The president had a caveat, though. The American involvement in military action in Libya should be limited — no ground troops — and finite. “Days, not weeks,” a senior White House official recalled him saying.

"Days, not weeks"?  Seriously?  Because several folks (Ross Douthat, Jeffrey Goldberg, Clive Crook) have made the seemingly obvious point that if Qadaffi simply accepts a cease fire in place (which is, after all, what the UN requested), that may not result in the fall of his government.  In which case we may be propping up the rebels in Benghazi for years, not days.  Is Obama really not aware of this possibility?  Does he seriously think the US will abandon its role in the no-fly zone after a few days if the situation is unresolved?  Or is he really just too focused on the NCAA upsets to think clearly about this?  This "days, not weeks" timeline is absurd, but it seems utterly consistent with the mindset that brought the headscratching "surge and retreat" announcement on Afghanistan.

I envision a slight recasting of Hillary's Eleven, a star-studded caper film with Hillary Clinton asking Barack Obama "Are you in or out?"  Because it doesn't sound like Barry realizes we can't be in for just a day or two.

LADIES NIGHT OUT:  Is my snark-detector misfiring?  I think the Times is showing less than full respect in this next passage, although I may be guilty of projection:

The change [in Administration policy] became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action to avert a potential humanitarian catastrophe, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity. Ms. Power is a former journalist and human rights advocate; Ms. Rice was an Africa adviser to President Clinton when the United States failed to intervene to stop the Rwanda genocide, which Mr. Clinton has called his biggest regret.

Now, the three women were pushing for American intervention to stop a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Libya.

Well, thank heaven Barry listened to a former journalist and not his defense specialists.  Apparently the boring middle-aged guys wanted to stay home:

In joining Ms. Rice and Ms. Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda.

No worries - America's role in Libya will be winding down by next weekend and won't distract us from the Final Four, or even the Elite Eight.  Sweet Jiminy.

FROM COLD (BUT INQUIRING) MINDS:  I never liked "chickenhawks" as a slur, but given their slim military credentials will libs be calling Hillary, Samantha and Susan the "chick-hawks"?

 

Comments

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of not looking healthy: Charlie Sheen sells out 2 nights at Radio City Music Hall.

[hit and run]

DoT,a Kellogg by birth. Other than that,my memory is a little fuzzy. But that may be last night talking. Hmmm,let me search my feelings. And see what google says...

[hit and run]

Ignatz:
I hope clarice or Glenn Reynolds or somebody can spread bgates's 2:18PM post far and wide.

Me too,me too. I'd love love love to "steal" it and put it on TheVIMH -- and then push it with Glenn to get him to link it (he would be more likely to link a post rather than a comment),but my batting average with Glenn is about what would put me just out of the top ten in MLB for a given season.

Mayhaps bgates can email him directly?

[Blue]

The Mideast may crumble, the earthquake may tumble...

But when the going gets tough, the CinC gets going...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgq1g-2cQ54

[Danube of Thought]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. prepared to a launch a missile attack on Libyan air defenses, but American ships and aircraft stationed in and around the Mediterranean Sea did not participate in initial French air missions Saturday, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the unfolding intervention. One official said the U.S. intends to limit its involvement—at least in the initial stages—to helping protect French and other air missions by taking out Libyan air defenses. An attack against those defenses with Navy sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles was planned for later Saturday, one official said.

I know USS Stout (DDG 55) is there, and has Tomahawks on board. I imagine those folks are bubbling over right about now.

[Ignatz]

Hit,
I emailed bgates's comment to Insty; we'll see.

[clarice]

You beat me. I was just bout to post it on the Tatler. bgates really, really really is my fave..

[Ignatz]

According to this article Libya hasn't upgraded it's Air defenses since we bombed them in '86.

[Threadkiller]

That explains why we are sending decommissioned ships to Libya, Ignatz.

[Tom Maguire]

There are no carriers. The nearest carrier was on the other side of the Suez canal when the UN voted on the resolution.

No one told the Navy to be ready for a no-fly zone. Why?

Hmm. Gates and the Pentagon has reportedly been opposed to this for weeks. On the one hand, a diligent SecDef might have pre-positioned a carrier just to increase the options available to the President. OTOH, we only have so many carriers, and a SecDef opposed to this exercise might have found other, seemingly better uses for them.

[Janet]

Here's the sorry s.o.b. Biden - "The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists."

What an idiot.

[Cecil Turner]

According to this article Libya hasn't upgraded it's Air defenses since we bombed them in '86.

I suspect that's true. And only an idiot would man a radar screen on an SA-2 or 3 when Western jets are flying overhead with ARMs. However, they have a fairly significant number of systems, and even old stuff works.

Moreover, if you're going to bomb surface targets, you get down into the range of some of those short-ranged IR systems (especially the SA-9 and 13s). It looked to me like that's what shot down that MIG (27?) yesterday. In the hands of a skilled operator, they're pretty darn effective, and cheap enough that you can shoot lots of 'em. I doubt the Libyans have a bunch of skilled operators, but if they manage even to knock down a couple aircraft it'll make an interesting cost-benefit analysis.

[scott]

Q'add'aff'i blames civilian deaths on French fighters in 3...2..

Staying on the french theme, the above photo of obama reminds me of the the refrain from fans in the Tour de France when Lance Armstrong would ride by...Doper!!

[Danube of Thought]

Unless I have lost my mind, Enterprise was in the Med a few weeks ago, had left for the Red Sea before this flap started, and about a week ago had returned, along with USS Kearsarge. Which means that within the past week someone has consciously determined that there was some place more important for her to be.

Just heard that US Tomahawks have now been fired.

[alsjdfhgw98diklj]

Danube of thought,

Please ask cousin Maggie to start a blog. Many people in the US are very interested to know what the US is doing to help in Japan and we would like to see the photos too.

Thaks,

[Rocco]

Every Libyan national I've seen interviewed so far has asked what took the US so long?

[Rick Ballard]

Interesting thought - the Libyan 'Will Tweet for Oil' mob is composed in part of deserting elements of Daffy's military. They took some armor and other weapons with them when they deserted.

How long until the French aces blow up the deserters' tanks (as well as some of Daffy's, to be sure). The deserters also have some AA batteries - will the French aces also score a few of those?

Lack of IFF could pose some interesting problems.

[Rocco]

And why is the follower of the free world announcing he won't send in ground troops? Evidently appeasing his base is more important than the lives at stake here.

[Danube of Thought]

"Please ask cousin Maggie to start a blog."

i'll ask her about it and let all know what she says. Could be tough to do as an Ensign aboard a busy deployed destroyer.

It would be nice if somebody would trot out the tape of Gates and that Pentagon spokesman telling us a week ago how we couldn't impose a no-fly zone because it would require an effort roughly equivalent to D-Day.

[RichatUF]

Or how many of the deserting elements are false defectors?

This all has that "Desert Fox" feel to it.

[Tulsa Jack]

Obama is an incompetent, indecisive, ignorant, cowardly fool, which makes him, as U.S. commander-in-chief, extremely dangerous. Who knows when this pathetic poseur will suddenly panic, and start lashing out to prove his manhood?

In 2008, with no qualifications whatsoever, no achievement, and no knowledge of his personal record, this "Chicago thug" (Bill Clinton), the Democrat Party, and the leftard media conned a majority of white Americans into voting for the Kenyan's black skin.

After two years of embarrassment and abject failure, some of the people that Banana Boy fooled -- though by no means all -- are beginning to realize that directing the world's super-power is not a game. As the Big Lie wears thin, they see our president and the head of our armed forces acting like a kindergartner; but having ignored reality and entrusted their lives to a fantasy figure of their imagination, fans of the ludicrous ongoing Obama-rama they so blithely worshiped have no business being surprised. If his styrofoam Greek temple didn't tip you off, guys, you're hopeless.

So now we commit American forces and American lives to "saving Libya." There has been no statement of America's interest, obvious as it is, because protecting the U.S. economy by stabilizing the global petroleum industry is against Obama's hate-America philosophy. I hear no clear military or political objective, either. No one knows who we are supporting, or where our action might lead -- certainly not the obviously incompetent and useless CIA, or the mad cow hack heading the state department. Here we are with just another Democrat spasm, a prescription for disaster like World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Kosovo. These phonies make me sick.

[RichatUF]

DoT-

Didn't the Pentagon slow walk assets (and loaded the operation as heavily as they could) the various Serbian bombing campaigns?

[Danube of Thought]

I just don't recall, Richard.

[Rick Ballard]

Rich - Idle thoughts

1. Daffy was cheating on his OPEC quota.

2. World demand for oil has not recovered, even as new production continues to climb.

3. EUtopia depends upon the taxes from high oil prices in order to purchase spackle and paint for the cracking facade.

4. Venezuela, Russia, Brazil and Mexico will all collapse rather quickly should oil drop to its economic value as expressed in the price per BTU of NG.

5. The US is collecting a rather tidy sum in both fuel taxes and corporate income taxes as a result of the artificially high price for oil.

6. The Arab League branch of OPEC is acting as enforce against Daffy for his cheating heart - and hands and mind etc.

7. US dependence upon Persian Gulf oil is at its lowest in 50 years due to Canadian production. We could cut off purchases from the KSA and replace them from other sources without batting an eye.

Emperor BOzo the Moronic is not acting in the interest of the US - he's acting in the interest of the Socialist Internationale.

[Jane]

So who gets to name the mission?

Odyssey Dome?

WTF?

[centralcal]

I thought the same thing, Jane.

[Ann]

Jane:

It is Odyssey Dawn and someone tweeted that it sounds like a hooker...I agree.

So has Emperor Bozo promised a withdrawal date yet?

I can't believe he has committed us to war and we are not in charge. The French can't handle the shanty towns of muslims setting cars on fire. Ditto WTF.

[Rob Crawford]

Lack of IFF could pose some interesting problems.

The rebels are being encouraged to drive their tanks with the turrets facing rear, as the French are used to their own tanks being in that configuration.

[centralcal]

Tweet: @markknoller It was on this date in 2003, that Pres Bush launched attack on the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.

Hhhmmmm.

[Rob Crawford]

So who gets to name the mission?

Odyssey Dome?

From what I understand, it's supposed to be done by a random selection of two words. The mission names are SUPPOSED to be gibberish, but all-too-often a PR expert gets their thumb on them.

The reason they're supposed to be gibberish is to keep the name from including any valuable information.

If you like, look on the lack of a PR-focused name as another sign of how much attention the Obama administration has shown this, and how much they expect the press to show it.

[centralcal]

So, tell me again who is President? Dumb Bastard or Cankles?

[RichatUF]

DoT found what I was looking for:

"...the army insisted on beefing up Task Force Hawk, as it came to be called, with a dozen seventy-ton Abrams tanks and forty-two Bradley fighting vehicles. To support the Apaches, the Army added thirty-seven other helicopters-Blackhawks and Chinooks. A larger, heavier force took longer to assemble, longer to deploy, and was more difficult to support. In all, protecting and sustaining a mere twenty four attack helicopters ended up requiring 6,200 troops and 26,000 tons of equipment, to include 190 containers of ammunition and enough spare parts to support twice the number of aircraft actually deployed..." (Bacevich, American Empire, p.189; qtd in Lowery, Legacy, notes #166, p.431)

[Porchlight]

@markknoller It was on this date in 2003, that Pres Bush launched attack on the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.

President Bush launched attack? I guess I would have said that US Armed Forces launched attack, but what do I know.

[RichatUF]

Rick-

I hadn't thought about that. I figured that the French would love to displace BP and Eni from Libya.

[Ignatz]

--It looked to me like that's what shot down that MIG (27?) yesterday.--

According to Wiki the Colonel has one Mirage F1 and an undetermined number of operational Mig 23's and Su 22's.

[PD]

Greetings from Davenport, IA (Le Claire, actually).

daddy, thanks for those reports on the state of things in Japan. But when you find the time, can you report what we really need to know: The Japanese Emperor's bracket picks.

[PD]

Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists

Apologizing for the rape of taxpayers by the Democrats, maybe.

[RichatUF]

The US and British shot 110 Tomahawk missiles into Libya. Brings back memories.

[Muammar]

WWBHOD?

[Rob Crawford]

WWBHOD?

Run to the southern hemisphere?

[bgates]

similar to rape apologists

On the other hand, to pay high tax rates is patriotic.

Lie back and think of America.

[PD]

WWBHOD?

He'd ask, "WWGWBD?"

[Ignatz]

Austin Bay says the Frogs are killing Libyan tanks as well.

[PD]

"We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy," President Obama said in an audio statement from Brazil.

Says the man who implied he could unleash the people with pitchforks.

[Rick Ballard]

Rich,

BP and ENI are more concerned about keeping the price up at the moment. ENI has the Kazakh field heading slowly towards full production and BP still has Thunder Horse on a very tight rein.

I don't doubt that France would like to have Total replace BP and ENI but the main thing is not to let the price of oil drop back to where it should be on a supply/demand basis. EUtopia would sink like Atlantis should that happen.

[Ignatz]

Richard "Wretchard" Fernanadez's thoughts on what NATO's options are in Libya.
As always, well thought out and reasoned.

[Gianni]

Am I wrong to be rooting for Ghaddafi? His uniforms are to die for (so to speak).

[glasater]

Twitter comments from conservative commentators are really shining today pointing out the hypocrisy of the Left regarding this action on Libya.
#p2 is getting a workout.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

DOT: If she doesn't want to upkeep a blog of her own, I could set her up as a guest blogger at Pal2Pal and she could post when she has time. Also all of our posts are uploaded automatically to Facebook and Twitter.

BTW, today Pal2Pal turned 4 years old.

[PD]

BTW, today Pal2Pal turned 4 years old.

Congratulations, Sara. Celebrate with a CADBURY EGG!

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

PD: My son brought me a box with 4 of them in it last night. :)

[PD]

I assume there are none left by now?

[PD]

Has anyone here read Shakedown Socialism? What'd you think?

[Irregular Reader]

"If she doesn't want to upkeep a blog of her own...

It hasn't stopped TM.

[hit and run]

Awww,Sara

HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!!!!!

(I saw that on fb yesterday and meant to get to it today in my offical JOM birthday/anniversary role ... but with baseball and 70 degree weather didn't. Boo me)

HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY PAL2PAL!!!!

[Irregular Reader]

I am afraid I didn't turn off the italics. My apologies. If so, it's not me, it's the booze.

[RichatUF]

In re: Wrechard's post, doesn't this operation seem the worst of all possible solutions?

[hit and run]

It hasn't stopped TM.

Heh.

[Janet]

bgates post at 2:18 is brilliant. On my calendar I always mark March 19th with "Iraq 2003".

[hit and run]

Irregular Reader:
If so, it's not me, it's the booze.

Don't blame the booze. Blame typepad.

It's what I do.

[RichatUF]

Rick-

...the main thing is not to let the price of oil drop...

Well the "international community" has picked the best way to do it. Nigeria's elections are coming up too, so the for-press-release pipeline bombings should be starting up soon.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Via Drudge:

More than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets in western portions of the country, U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing.

[Ignatz]

--In re: Wrechard's post, doesn't this operation seem the worst of all possible solutions?--

Rich,
If, as he worries, they only do enough to stop Gaddafhi but neither side wins and wins quickly, then I'm afraid you're correct.

[hit and run]

Remember the now famous Obama 2002 speech against the Iraq War and Bush?

Updated for Obama 2011 and Libya

[peterargus]

I wonder if Ulysses told his wife that it would just days not weeks before he returned from his Odyssey.

[Danube of Thought]

i.'m just hoping Gaddafi doesn't get te opportunity to carry out wholesale slaughter on his people if he senses the end is near.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I'm just cynical and jaded enough where Obama is concerned to believe he procrastinated long enough for the country to have their mind on basketball and his brackets and maybe not notice the Libya situation. The news is all saying that Obama is taking a very backseat, but 110 Tomahawks doesn't seem very backseatish to me.

[Neo]

With all its hopes, dreams, promises and urban renewal
The world continues to deteriorate.

GIVE UP!

You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.

[Captain Hate]

Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists.

The dumbest imbecile to ever crawl out of Scranton once was admonished for telling people that the truck driver who collided with his first wife's car, for which his late wife was judged to be at fault, had been drinking even though there was no evidence of it in the police report. For that SOB to use awkward and misleading phrases like that shows a stunning lack of self awareness. Somebody should also ask him if he believed Juanita Broaddrick.

[Captain Hate]

LUN for Biden hilarity that would tax the imagination of Iowahawk.

[el polacko]

do we have any idea just who these 'rebels' are? could we be over there assisting al qaida ??

[Ignatz]

Too funny, CH.

El polacko,
in answer to your first question; no, no we don't.
Regarding your second; why yes, yes we could.

[Rick Ballard]

"do we have any idea just who these 'rebels' are?"

Sworn opponents of the Deadly Duck who deserted from his army in a desperate attempt to gain freedom, liberty and quite a bit of oil. The oil is obviously of tertiary concern and funds from its sale will be used only for the the betterment of the Libyan people.

And establishing the world wide Caliphate, of course.

[PD]

Winner, winner, Richmond dinner.

[scott]

I'm guessing the parking garage under the hospital in Benghazi is filling up with armor about now.

I'm all for taking out the mad-dawg but I don't see the mechanism short term. Not without 19 yr olds with M16s anyway.

[Gmax]

I guess one way to not lie us into war, is simply to not bother following the Constitution asking the Congress to declare war.

Lets see how many lefties get their panties in a twist. Medea Benjamin, clean up on aisle 3...

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I don't know about Medea, but they had an anti-war demonstration in front of the WH today and then there is this:

"Who The Hell Do You Think Your Are?" Farrakhan Blasts Obama For Calling For Qaddafi to Step Down (Video)

[Jane]

Hey don't forget to look at the moon tonite - it's like 300,000 miles closer than it will be again in our life times. It's huge and very cool.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Now up to 112 Tomahawks launched.

[Rob Crawford]

Anyone else a bit worried about old Libyan sleeper cells?

[seeingdogs]

Does the adoptee have birth certificate long form?

[Extraneus]

Great post, hit. I'm looking forward to Rubio or someone similar shoving that speech right up his ass. They can read your post verbatim.

[MaryD]

My God, Sara -- Farrakahm is beyond insane, and to think that he might have any influence over Obama is chilling.

[Ann]

Iowahawk is cracking me up with his #ObamaMissionNames:

Operation Cognative Dissonance

Operation Drive Gullible Anti-War Voters Into Heretofore Unimagined Levels of Self-Loathing

Task Force Gravity's Rainbow

Operation Tangerine Dream Album Cover

Operation Afternoon Delight

Strikeforce Gossamer Unicorn

Operation Giant Double Rainbow What Does It Mean Man

Operation Summer's Eve

[bgates]

Barack Obama has now been responsible for firing more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace prize winners combined.

He's still in 2nd place for number of Arab deaths caused (and 3rd place for Muslim deaths) behind Yassir Arafat and Mikhail Gorbachev.

[Ann]

Farrakahm is just doing what Obama tells him to do.

Obama has to separate himself from his friends again for re-election.

Under the bus...return trip home.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Ouch:

[Rocco]

The real brackets

[Ann]

bgates:

I know you tire of being called brilliant but honestly YOU ARE BRILLIANT!

and funny! :)

I'd even mudwrestle for ya.

[centralcal]

Matt Drudge gets it. Potus and Flotus headline right now. Potus with the toothy grin waving at the camera. Flotus, bad posture (per her usual), ill fitting clothing, scowling ahead.

This is what is representing the United States of America. God help us!

[MoodyBlu]

Captain Hate:

The dumbest imbecile to ever crawl out of Scranton once was admonished for telling people that the truck driver who collided with his first wife's car, for which his late wife was judged to be at fault, had been drinking even though there was no evidence of it in the police report...

The intersection where the accident happened is about 3 miles from my house. I travel through it often.

I once heard, I believe, the daughter of the truck driver interviewed on a radio program where she expressed the dismay and hurt the man and family still feel at the allegations leveled by VP dumbshit.

[Rick Ballard]

RC,

Dunno about sleepers but this sure presents a wonderful opportunity for a false flag attack. I keep wondering if there is actionable intelligence concerning something that Daffy had planned which set the French off. The 'humanitarian' cover doesn't make it to a short Frenchman's ankles.

[Rick Ballard]

RC,

Dunno about sleepers but this sure presents a wonderful opportunity for a false flag attack. I keep wondering if there is actionable intelligence concerning something that Daffy had planned which set the French off. The 'humanitarian' cover doesn't make it to a short Frenchman's ankles.

[Bob A]

"Flotus, bad posture (per her usual), ill fitting clothing, scowling ahead.“

My bad, I thought that was patrick ewing.

[MoodyBlu]

My bad, I thought that was patrick ewing.

Bob A For The Win. Well done sir.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I see so many new names commenting today. If you are new to JOM, Welcome! Stick around and join the fun and learn alot at the same time.

[V Vet]

112 Tomahwaks? The U.S. Troops that follow Obamas orders are as bad as the Wisconsin police who follow union orders. No excuses.

[RichatUF]

it's like 300,000 miles closer

Not quite. Ave is about 238k miles and the "super moon" is about 221K miles. Its averave apparent magnitude when full is -12.7 and tonight it's probably around -13 or -14.

[Specter]

Barack Obama has now been responsible for firing more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace prize winners combined.

ROFLMAO!!!

[OldTimer]

Not sure what's worse---Hillary, Susan and Samantha in charge of wars and foreign affairs, or the leader of the free world hiding out in Rio with some put-upon-looking woman draped in 'hate' couture..