Letter Seven: Obama's Sitting Ducks (2-26-2009)

Letter Seven: Obama’s
Sitting Ducks (2-26-2009)


I see Obama is proudly standing his ground on sending the Iraqi troops home. Let me rephrase that. I see President Obama, is following basically the same plan President Bush set forward before Obama was president, and reneging on his word, that he was to bring home the boys. What does that mean? Well, you have to read between the lines, it means, he is going to leave in place, 50,000-troops, more than we have in Korea or Afghanistan, more than we have in Japan, what for?
Your guess is as good as mine. Being a soldier for 11-years I realize you just can’t up and leave, and we are not, but if you leave 50,000 soldiers in a war zone, and they are basically, as they said, support, meaning, not much infantry, they are sitting ducks for the enemy. Strategically, we are in a good area in the world, surrounded by enemies, and if we leave a hole, it will be filled, but that will happen with 50,000 troops or 15,000 troops, not with 142,000 troops though. So it is best we leave them all there, or take them all out except a small contingent, say 5000 to 10,000, and to the extreme, 35,000, but not 50,000, that would be my guess. He wouldn’t understand this though, not being a soldier that is why, he is on a merry-go-round, and he doesn’t know how to get off it—yet he is listening to the people as he whirls and whirls and whirls around in his same circle!
How about a plan C? I bet he hasn’t got one, so I’ll give him one; do what you said you were going to do, that is what the people expect, not a modification after you get into office, it looks like you tricked us all. And maybe he did, that was the original plan, A, now he went to plan B, the Bush plan, and for Plan C, is going back to plan A.
We have to admit, that when you are standing outside of the White House looking in it is easy to point fingers, but one inside looking out, you come to understand, pointing fingers is easy, in comparison to doing what you said should be simple, lead the people to think so.