President Obama Tell Us The Truth!

President Obama, tell us the truth about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. You promised "transparency," a promise you're not honoring.

For example, tell us about a day in the life of an Iraqi. Do they have jobs? Are they safe? Do their children have schools? Is there medical care? Clean drinking water? Garbage pickup and sewage treatment?
President Obama Tell Us The Truth!

Where are the pictures of everyday life in Baghdad so we can see it for ourselves? Where are the pictures of their neighborhoods? Where are the stories of children and their families? Under President Bush these things were censored. Now that you're in office, where are those pictures? Where are those stories?

As a candidate, you promised we'd be out of Iraq in 16 months. As President, you instead took over the Bush plan in its entirety, making Iraq your war. You retained his military personnel including his Defense Secretary. And you've continued hiring a vast number of Blackwater style mercenaries. Why did you do these things?

Under you, is the U.S. still seizing and holding people indefinitely without charges as President Bush did? Are you running torture chambers?

And now you're rapidly expanding the Afghanistan-Pakistan war. Why? What do hope to accomplish? At what cost and when?

Are you trying to keep us informed but the news media is not doing its job? If so tell us so we can pressure them to honor their obligations under the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.

Vast numbers of Americans voted for you because they believed in your promises of "change" and "transparency." Where is the change? Where is the transparency? As we confront extremely difficult issues like the wars and the economy, we need you to level with us, so that together we can solve them.

(posted with permission from http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/

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Uhhhhh....

It's his job to run the country.

I'm going to leave it at that.

That would be an interesting press conference.

Seriously though, if you have a claim that Obama is censoring the media, then let's hear it. Absent that, this sounds a lot like asking someone to prove that they haven't committed a crime.

This is similar.

:rofl:

I read it several times and even though I understand the sentiment, it just wound up making me furrow my brow.

that 8 years of gop obstruction.

I don't know about you, but I'm willing to give Obama more than 5 months to get 16 years of mess sorted out. That's the truth of it.

That's like seeing someone jump in a car in Denver promising to take us to Disneyland CA, but driving us toward New York. We must say something, not give him more time.

That doesn't matter one bit, as the view count keeps rising.

My 2 cents, the unrec function is a waste of time and makes no difference in the visibility of a post.

Play with it all you want.

BTW, I really like President Obama...I just really hate war and violent deaths of children, including ours in uniform.

edited for spelling

When posting criticism, it might serve to play against the point you are attempting to make.

Which is EXACTLY what the nuke button was set up for. :nuke: