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So the message I'm getting from RW media and reublicans is we DO leave solders behind. (Original Post) warrior1 Jun 2014 OP
Yep, that about covers it. That or they will claim that a Republican President would have been okaawhatever Jun 2014 #1
Oh sure abakan Jun 2014 #2
It doesn't matter, when the rw talking heads make these claims they don't actually have anything okaawhatever Jun 2014 #3
The idiotic facebook posts I've been seeing from RWers are oddly from combat veterans IronLionZion Jun 2014 #4

okaawhatever

(9,461 posts)
1. Yep, that about covers it. That or they will claim that a Republican President would have been
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 01:23 PM
Jun 2014

scary enough to get the Taliban/Haqqani to turn him over without anything in return.

abakan

(1,819 posts)
2. Oh sure
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 01:55 PM
Jun 2014

What would he have threatened them with, bombing, drone attacks, invasion? Been there, done that. I don't see that threat as being very scary to them. But then again repubs claim much and achieve little.

okaawhatever

(9,461 posts)
3. It doesn't matter, when the rw talking heads make these claims they don't actually have anything
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 02:01 PM
Jun 2014

to back them up. You know, like how Obama's weakness caused Putin to invade the Crimea.

IronLionZion

(45,441 posts)
4. The idiotic facebook posts I've been seeing from RWers are oddly from combat veterans
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:45 PM
Jun 2014

which makes no sense to me at all.

Just a few of them of course. I think most agree that no soldiers should ever get left behind. If he did something wrong, he should be tried by US military court.

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