Huckabee addresses foreign policy in Council Bluffs ("overwhelming force" to "stomp" the enemy)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

BY ROBYNN TYSVER

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee criticized the nation's former defense secretary, saying that the concept of leaving a "light footprint" in the invasion of Iraq was a mistake.

Huckabee said former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should have listened to the nation's military commanders and sent more than 180,000 troops to defeat and occupy Iraq. The United States invaded with about 130,000 troops.

The next time this nation goes to war, Huckabee said, he would use "overwhelming force" to "stomp" the enemy.

"We need both feet stomping," said Huckabee, whose lack of foreign policy experience has dogged his campaign.

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[rodeodance]

1. oh yeah--another one who will be listening to the military commanders

[ShockediSay]

36. Heavy footprint? Hello draft! nt

[EFerrari]

2. Fuck this fat eater.

May the spirits at Council Bluffs ignore his stupidity.

[annabanana]

3. I guess he don't do nuance either. . . . . n/t

[FreeStateDemocrat]

4. We really don't need another idiot in the White House talking about the next war.

[Kolesar]

8. Yeah. What a stupid issue to run on. Even *many* republicans hate the war

[Critters2]

5. Just like Jesus would do.

:puke:

[Mz Pip]

6. Jesus

would stomp. Then he might do a little dance, like Disco and a couple of high fives. Then he'd dis the gays.

Hucklebuster's Jesus is one strange dude.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Cronopio]

11. Jesus ...

... would line dance.

Disco is for fags and commies.

[Critters2]

24. Jesus would listen to Matisyahu and dance like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyX2aB89knk&feature=related

[Cha]

7. Is the huckster a chickenshithawk?

You know..those hypocrites who send other people's kids off to a bloody war but haven't been and wouldn't think of sending their dog killer son or the other kids in the fam.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Will Colon Powell endorse Huckabee now? n/t

[Cronopio]

10. You mean the Huckster's gonna stomp his widdle feet?!

Gotta queue up some Nancy Sinatra.

[ThePowerofWill]

12. That made Ol' Hucklebutt sound waaay too much like*.

It gave me a chill. It made me think about the possibility of another horrible 8yrs.

[sendero]

13. Every time you think....

... you've heard this guy say the stupidest thing ever, he opens his mouth and does it again.

Guess what Huck, we pretty much put our whole force in Iraq, they are still there. Idiot.

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[nealmhughes]

15. I suppose that Rev. Hugabe . . . um, ah, . . . Huckabee wants to resurrect

Marshal Zhukov. No, that wouldn't do, Zhukov was a Commie who won WW II, so it would have to be Gen. Stoner or Air Marshal Harris.

Yessiree, Let's carpet bomb Teheran! Then fire bomb the city -- it's only slightly smaller than NY. Or should we start with Shiraz or Isfashan? Here is a 400 year old church that is just screaming for targetting!

This dog torture enabler MUST be stopped! Like Pierre after Bonaparte. . .

[Cobalt-60]

31. it'll be good for business

Some B*sh crony scavengers will collect all of the newly fallen mosaic tiles and sell them for use in elite bathrooms across the Northern Hemisphere.
They won't only get their material free, but will be paid to clear it away.

[skul_Donteecha]

16. Is Huckabee a former soldier?

I may have missed it somewhere but is the Huckabee suggestion on how to stage a war coming from yet another chickenhawk. I don't think I have seen anything that indicates his military background.

[Cobalt-60]

32. I'm guessing no

But I don't know for sure.
will inquire....

[humbled_opinion]

17. Huckleberry Huckster will be havin us all kneelin at the altar...

Of War if he has his way.... Hmmmm Could've been Satan?

[salin]

18. hope the testostorine driven, for whom this might resound, realize that this = DRAFT

no other way to get the 'overwhelming force' but to drastically increase the size of the armed services.

[dysfunctional press]

19. onward christian soldiers, marching off to war-

with the cross of jebus, going on before...

[drm604]

20. Who else did we need to overwhelm in Iraq?

We defeated the military. We defeated the government. What's left? Should we have wiped out the citizenry? What exactly was left for us to overwhelm and how long were we going to continue overwhelming it?

How do you overwhelm a spontaneous civilian guerrilla resistance? How do you overwhelm a civil war between factions that have fought for centuries?

[Gonnuts]

21. Let me think ...

... who was it at one time that I heard people saying something about a dumb, dry-drunk, born-again, clownish, bore, idiot child of a man, surrounded by the stink of scandal that somehow became POTUS - twice ... oohh, yeah ...

Never underestimate the power of a large group of very determined incredibly stupid people.

[Cass]

22. Diplomacy? We don't need no stinkin' diplomacy!!

Just stomp them with both feet. OMG.

[Jackpine Radical]

23. Both feet stomping--hell, make wine, not war!

[MisterP]

25. he'll win by petulantly stamping his feet! it's even better than the Bowel Doctrine

[scarface2004]

26. I say we lose maybe 10...

20 million tops!!!

[balantz]

27. Nuclear weapons were made for apocolyptic megalomaniacs like Hucklefuck.

A whole air force squadron awaits his sickening doomsday request. Makes depressing, strap-on suicide bombers from the other desperate godmongers seem like smurfs.

[bemildred]

28. Another long-range mouth-fighter. nt

[dbt]

29. Oops. The damn fool is right about overwhelming force.

In the sense that even the blind hog finds the occasional acorn, FatBoy has stumbled onto some common sense about war. Rummy used about A FOURTH of the troop strength that it would have taken to OCCUPY Iraq.

If a dumbass like Mike Huckabee (where's Jethrine? Where's the DogSlayer?) can figure out that bu$hco didn't send enough troops to THEIR DEATHS in this War Of Convenience, HOW OBVIOUS CAN IT BE?

PLEASE let him run against Hillary and a pox on BOTH their houses.

:evilgrin:

[dailykoff]

30. And this is supposed to be the sensible guy?

And who the hell does he think is the "enemy" anyway??

[CJCRANE]

33. Imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.

That was George Orwell's vision of future fascism.

Huckabee has to go one better and have *TWO* jackboots stomping.

[Vinca]

34. Oh, Huck, you manly man. I'm getting hot.

:rofl:

[boricua79]

35. where are you going to get the troops

and they misunderstood the lesson of this and the Vietnam war. you can't win over a determined insurgency in their own land, and all overwhelming amount of troops would do is alienate the people even more.

Guess they need another war to prove their little fantasies.

[hollowdweller]

37. And right after preaching those sermons mentioned in the other thread. Bad timing.

"Next War" there's some optimistic thinking! "Stomp the enemy" a great message for the birthday of the "Prince of Peace"

I guess I just don't understand the Baptist dogma.

[Orsino]

38. "There Ain't But One Way"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vphj_fZ3Ew