{"id":607,"date":"2009-11-16T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugargroup.net\/varrin\/obama-and-ending-the-war\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:30:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:30:51","slug":"obama-and-ending-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugargroup.net\/varrin\/obama-and-ending-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and ending the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote this letter to the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/Politifact.com\">Politifact.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find this promise in the database:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kr9ywEFRQkQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Promise #125 is &#8220;my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war&#8221;. \u00a0That promise is listed as kept, however recent events draw the good faith aspect of that promise into question. \u00a0Even so, that is a substantially different promise from &#8220;the first thing I will do &#8230; get our troops home.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I can attest, personally, that President Obama is *not* &#8220;getting our troops home&#8221; as I have personally taken more and more troops *to* various war zones around the world (primarily the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters) since he took office. \u00a0And, to complete the train of thought, he has, indeed, done many other things. \u00a0So he did not &#8220;first&#8230; get our troops home&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IMO:<\/p>\n<p>1: \u00a0The promise indicated above is not listed and is broken, and,<\/p>\n<p>2: \u00a0Though President Obama may have had a meeting on his first day in office, he has not seen to it that the military&#8217;s mission is truly to end the war. \u00a0I would call that a &#8220;compromise&#8221; not a &#8220;promise kept&#8221; for #125. \u00a0Or maybe &#8220;in bad faith&#8221; is a better description.<\/p>\n<p>V-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote this letter to the fine folks at Politifact.com: I couldn&#8217;t find this promise in the database: &#8220;I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. 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