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Old 12-03-2011, 03:07 PM
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I remember the Gulf War from 1991. President Bush the Elder told the military to deal with the situation and then he went off and played golf.

Every time a reporter would shout a question at him he would pretend to not hear it and then announce he was off to play golf.

Bush was trying to make a point to the whole world with this: The President of the United Stated is the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces; he does not fight in the war himself. He makes political decisions that serve the interests of the United States, and if Military force is required then he tells the Military to carry out his orders. This the Military does and if they did not they would be assuming the position of making a political decision.

This right wing weirdness of all Obama did was tell to the Military to do their job and this is a bad thing is is just grabbing at straws in an attempt to justify their own fantasy that Obama is not a good President. I guess they could read the US Constitution and discover what the job of the President is, but if they did they would likely come back with 'That is not a valid source'.

Sorry, but this line of thought is just looney.
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