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dreadgeek · 07-02-2010, 11:42 AM

I wasn't sure whether or not to put this in the news thread or the political mythbusting thread but since no one here has (yet) said that the Afghanistan war is one that Obama chose, it'll go here.

See below:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele expressed an unusual interpretation of the relationship between Barack Obama and the war in Afghanistan at a Connecticut fundraiser Thursday.

"This was a war of Obama's choosing," Michael Steele said at the event. "This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."

Steele also accused Obama of "demonizing Iraq while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan."

"Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that's the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan, alright, because everyone who's tried over a thousand years of history has failed," Steele continued.

Yes, that's right Barack Obama (or as I like to refer to him as Darth Obama) started the Afghanistan war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_633730.html

The thing is, I expect that within a week this meme will catch hold in conservative circles.

Cheers
Aj

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dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,844 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Zen Master Steele I wasn't sure whether or not to put this in the news thread or the political mythbusting thread but since no one here has (yet) said that the Afghanistan war is one that Obama chose, it'll go here. See below: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele expressed an unusual interpretation of the relationship between Barack Obama and the war in Afghanistan at a Connecticut fundraiser Thursday. "This was a war of Obama's choosing," Michael Steele said at the event. "This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." Steele also accused Obama of "demonizing Iraq while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan." "Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that's the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan, alright, because everyone who's tried over a thousand years of history has failed," Steele continued. Yes, that's right Barack Obama (or as I like to refer to him as Darth Obama) started the Afghanistan war. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_633730.html The thing is, I expect that within a week this meme will catch hold in conservative circles. Cheers Aj __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community. "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)