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There are certainly lots of good reasons for us to leave the middle east entirely but there are also reasons that make it imperative that we have a continued presence there. Our gov't knows that. That's why O'bama didn't order us out.
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jettyman
Everything changed because of 9/11. On my first deployment many years ago we could go downtown in different cities freely and shop or get something to eat. Most guys would go buy the awesome gold they have over there. But Bin Laden changed everything. They revere him as a hero. That's when the war on terror began. You can't go outside the base boundaries over there now unless you're in a armored convey and they get blown up pretty much every time now. If you tried to walk out of the base you would be kidnapped or killed immediately now. A lot of people don't realize how much the arab world is trying and planning to kill us. That's why we're still there. And we will be there long after we all die. It's hard to explain to someone that hasn't been over there. Saudi Arabia is a prime example. They hate us. I hated being there. They also hate Iran but an Iraqi told me once they have been fighting each other for thousands of years but they will always fight together to kill us. The fanaticism is beyond a level that most people could comprehend.
What was the guy's track record after 9/11, and before we removed the bad guy Saddam and invaded Iraq?
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Holmz
What was the guy's track record after 9/11, and before we removed the bad guy Saddam and invaded Iraq?
Are you trying to say we shouldn't have taken him out?
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Let's be real here.... If Obama had "taken him out", the dems would be saying how great of a move it was. However, since it's Trump that ordered it, it's automatically a "bad" thing... That is the problem with the current political climate. The pure hatred for Trump causes sane people to think insanely. :-) It's not even up for debate whether or not this guy has done things to hurt the US and the American people - he was a major terrorist that was behind many American deaths and was reportedly in the planning stages of even more in the very near future. I don't see how it's even up for debate whether "taking him out" was a good or bad thing for the US, the American people and our allies... The world is a better place without him.
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If Obama had ordered it then the republicans would have been against it.
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ca90ss
If Obama had ordered it then the republicans would have been against it.
That didn't happen with OBL
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No, they just questioned his motives and called it a political stunt which isn’t much different than what the dems are doing now.
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ca90ss
No, they just questioned his motives and called it a political stunt which isn’t much different than what the dems are doing now.
No they didn't. Obama gave blanket approval to blow the shit out the Taliban/Al Qaeda with drones in Pakistan and the republicans agreed wholeheartedly.
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And after it happened they still criticized Obama over it.
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They had been hunting for him for years, but he kept eluding our people. When they finally got him pinned down, Obama gave the go-ahead to take him out. Where the criticism came in was when the Obama administration acted like they did something that nobody else could do. Obama just happened to be lucky enough to be in office when they found him. If Bin Laden had been killed while Bush was still in office, the media wouldn't have praised him like they did Obama...in fact, they probably would have accused Bush of murdering a poor Muslim cleric.