Obama’s “Our Troops Don’t Have Guns” Story Is Bogus
What’s funny is that the media is reporting it as though it isn’t bogus even as they bring up facts which prove it is bogus.
Obama claims that in Afghanistan some of our troops are so ill-equipped that they’re forced to target the enemy’s weapons in order to resupply themselves.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama says the war in Iraq, which he opposes, has pulled troops away from Afghanistan and left soldiers there without proper equipment.
He underscored his point in the Democratic debate Thursday by telling a story about a rifle platoon in Afghanistan that allegedly didn’t have enough soldiers or weapons to do its job, leaving the platoon to scrounge for weapons from the Taliban.
His source was an anonymous Army captain, whom his campaign refused to identify Friday.
The problem is that the Army captain Obama attributes this story to says that he and his fellow troops did target Taliban weapons caches, but didn’t target them for resupply purposes.
Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to release the name of the captain, citing the soldier’s privacy, and pointed to an ABC News account as verification of the story. Obama learned about the captain’s allegation from a staffer who had spoken with the captain, according to Vietor.
ABC News said it talked to the unidentified captain, whose account of shortages in Afghanistan was for the most part accurately summarized by Obama, although not verified.
The captain said, however, that the unit did not go after the Taliban for the purpose of getting their weapons, but sometimes used those weapons when some were captured.
Don’t you just love how they’re reporting that Obama “accurately” summarized this Army captain’s claims even though the most damning allegation Obama made turns out to be total crap per the Army captain himself?
Obama says our troops are having to steal arms from the enemy to keep fighting. The source Obama uses for that statement says otherwise. Thus, Obama is a big fat liar.
But the media is too busy trying to coronate him as the Democrat nominee to call him out on it.
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