[LeftLibertarian2] Re: Did Clint Eastwood channel Ron Paul

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1347108/Clint-Eastwood-80-A-school-reunion-There-wouldnt-anybody-there.html#ixzz259WGw3S5

"I didn't understand why we invaded [Iraq], and I still don't. It's the
same with Afghanistan. I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S.
to be successful, but by the same token Afghanistan has always been a
screw-up. The Russians, who live right next door, couldn't prevail
there, so what are we doing?"


> On 9/1/2012 7:45 PM, kimberlywilder06 wrote:
>> Thanks for someone finding the post.
>
>> I am going to look at the Eastwood video again.
>>
>> My husband and I heard it that Eastwood was blaming Obama for not
>> closing it. Maybe, Eastwood was saying Obama should not have said he
>> would close it? Or, just that he lied.
>>
>> Will check the replay tape!
>
> There's another thing that I'd like to check. Eastwood said something
> like, "why not bring them (the troops in Afghanistan) home now?"
>
> Everyone seems to take this as Eastwood calling for doing this. But I
> thought he said this in reference to Obama's setting a timeline for
> troop withdrawal--i.e., *if you're going to do that instead of keeping
> them there indefinitely ("as long as it takes" as they put it)*, then
> why not just give up now?
>
> So, I thought it was a pro-war, not an anti-war, statement. Of coure, it
> wound't be the first time I was the one who wasn't paying attention--
>


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