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Barack Obama

MADem

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13. I think it sums up how a lot of us who served feel about the Commander in Chief.

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #12)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 12:33 PM

Jan 2014

The loudmouths (who very often include chickenhawks in their number) like to put him down because they're pissed off that he's a war-ender as opposed to a war-starter, but he's a guy who THINKS about the costs and the consequences.

I shudder to think how many people would be under the gun if a GOP president had been dealing with Syria and Iran.

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