Will Barack Obama be the first American president to say, "Send away the Marines" - as in permanentl

[ChunkyMonkey]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...y-the-marines/

GAFFNEY: Send away the Marines?
Force review could leave the Corps high and dry
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. -The Washington Times
6:30 p.m., Monday, September 13, 2010Illustration: USMC

"Send in the Marines!" For many generations, successive U.S. presidents have given those orders, from early in our nation's history in places like Montezuma's palaces in Mexico to the Barbary pirates' shores of Tripoli, and more recently from the halls of Saddam Hussein in Iraq to the pirate-infested coast of Somalia.

Of late, the question occurs: Will Barack Obama be the first American president to say, "Send away the Marines" - as in permanently?

That is a not-unreasonable inference to draw from the myriad steps being taken by the Obama Defense Department at the moment - steps that could threaten the future viability of the Marine Corps. Consider the following examples: .........

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I hope this is nothing more than political rumor meant to go against Obama!

http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/downl..._fidelis_5.MP3

[OgenRwot]

That would never happen...ever.

[HBARleatherneck]

thems fightin werds


and may he fall asleep under a camel with post nasal drip

[mikedubs]

Harry Truman tried something like this once; he was too enamored with the new Atomic Age and thought that boots on the ground were obsolete...but, the Korean War happened, and cemented the Corps' place in the military

[waxthis]

thems fightin werds


and may he fall asleep under a camel with post nasal drip

Count me in.

[HBARleatherneck]

I dont want to predict the outcome...but...I would think the Commandant would then Take over the World. First he would have the current occupants of the whitehouse deported and the Commandant would have the white house fumigated. Then painted Scarlet and Gold. From there he would administer Justice. Swiftly and one sided in US Citizens best interest. I am just speculating, but I think He would have 545 people Round up and Hung, for crimes against America. Then and only then we might have world peace.

He would probably go ahead and give one way tickets to all the America haters living here.

[Graves]

He would have 545 people Round up and Hung, for crimes against America. Then and only then we might have world peace.

You're about 1.2 to 1.6 billion short in your figure there; but I'm not gonna name names

[jake]

I dont want to predict the outcome...but...I would think the Commandant would then Take over the World. First he would have the current occupants of the whitehouse deported and the Commandant would have the white house fumigated. Then painted Scarlet and Gold. From there he would administer Justice. Swiftly and one sided in US Citizens best interest. I am just speculating, but I think He would have 545 people Round up and Hung, for crimes against America. Then and only then we might have world peace.

He would probably go ahead and give one way tickets to all the America haters living here.

First order of business: in order to ensure that violent insurgency and other acts of terrorism by so-called 'loyalists' and other America haters is kept to a minimum, the Bill of Rights is hereby suspended. All firearms must be turned in at designated collection points. Anyone caught in possession of a firearm will be deemed an America hater and subject to summary execution without trial or right of appeal.

No thanks.

[losttrail]

Even though I was Army, I'll fight for the USMC any day. I have a nephew that just went to USMC boot camp on Sept 7.

Listening to Glenn Beck yesterday on the radio, I heard a very interesting discussion on Obama by author Dinesh S'Souza and his upcoming book "The Roots of Obama's Rage". Fascinating theory that seems to explain a lot if not all of Obama's actions.

[ERNO]

Even though I was Army, I'll fight for the USMC any day. I have a nephew that just went to USMC boot camp on Sept 7.

Listening to Glenn Beck yesterday on the radio, I heard a very interesting discussion on Obama by author Dinesh S'Souza and his upcoming book "The Roots of Obama's Rage". Fascinating theory that seems to explain a lot if not all of Obama's actions.

May I quote some from MAUREEN DOWD,THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED,Wed,Sept. 15 2010.

"Newt Gingrich,the conservative who fancies himself a historian and visonary did not use his critical faculties to resist his party's lunacy but instead has embraced it.He has given a full-throated endorsement to a dangerously irresponsible and un-Christian theory by Ann Coulter-in pants Dinesh D' Souza."

"So the smear artists are claiming not only that the president is a socialist but that he suffers from a socialism gene"

"Contributing to the death of reason just as he did in 2007 when D'Souza wrote that "the cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11,"he argues that "from a very young age and thru his formative years,Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction."

"Playing into the bigotry of birthers and haters who paint Obama as "the other," D'Souza writes that the president was raised offshore,spending "his formative years" off the American mainland."

"The idea that there's something illegitimate about anticolonism on the part of a Kenyan man in the 1940's,50's and 60's is stupid.And it's inconsistent to accuse a president who's raining drones on bad guys in Pakistan,Somalia and Yemen of inherited anticolonial ideology."

"If the conservatives are so interested in psychoanalyzing father and son relationships,why didn't they do so back when W. was rushing to avenge and one-up his father by finishing what daddy started with Saddam."

"It's Newt and D'Souza and their ilk who put America at risk." Commenting on Newt's movie and website.