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Originally Posted by dippin
Again, who are Obama's objectives any less clear than Bush's?
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Perhaps the problem is mine. I thought I understood what Bush was trying to accomplish. I don't know what Obama is trying to accomplish.
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How is his conducting of the war any worse than Bush's? And I see you didn't even answer your own questions.
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I think a war needs a clearly defined cause. I think bush had one (reasonable people can disagree on if the cause was worthy), I don't know what Obama's is, do you?
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And Obama had made it perfectly clear that he would expand the war in Afghanistan and take the war to Pakistan if necessary. Agree or disagree all you like, but that was a major point of the campaign, and either you have a really short memory or you are willfully ignoring history.
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For what cause?
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As far as POWs go, how can the USA be treating them as POWs when people went to such lengths to even deny they were POWs?
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Nuance. I generally don't like lawyers because they have to play word games. Obama is a master at "nuance", drives me crazy. Bush was forced to play that game of "nuance", so you get enemy combatants rather than POW, etc, Obama willingly plays the game. In my book it is what it is, an enemy combatant in captivity is a POW.