But you guys never want O look bad so you're never in the mood to talk about O's failures. Or his 'successes' for that matter.  Well, buttwipe, here's his success:  Let's just look at the last two large engagements for our military: Iraq and Afghanistan. C'mon, 10 years to subdue two countries smaller than some US states? WWI lasted 4 years and WWII lasted 6 years. These were wars fought on a global scale.  The idiots in charge, good Republican businessmen, lost sight of the goal. More worried about Halliburton's profits than US security, they dithered until the clock ran out and then retired to live in luxury with "thank you's" from Halliburton.  President Obama is waging war the smart way. Al Quaeda is the enemy. Al Quaeda doesn't have a country. Al Quaeda is spread among many countries with a distributed network of operatives. How do you fight a ground war against this? You can't!  What you can do is make it very, very dangerous to be an Al Quaeda leader. Obama has done that.  There's Osama bin Laden, of course, killed in May.  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.  Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda's chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.  In August, 'Atiyah 'Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.  In June, one of the group's most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa'ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa'ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.  Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta.  Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.  In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.  Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and 'Abdallah Sa'id were killed.  In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.  In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.  In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.  In May, al Qaeda's number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.  In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.  Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists?  If this is defense, what does offense look like?  The world has become a dangerous place for Al Quaeda leaders. And Obama built that. George W. Bush, in 8 years of continuous war on two fronts, couldn't do that!  Now, Mitt Romney has hired a large percentage of Bush's old advisors. Do we really want to abandon Obama's approach and return to Bush/Romney's?
VAN METER, Iowa -- Mitt Romney said Tuesday that he had actually met one of the Navy SEALs to have been killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.