Obama needs the Remedial Commander-in-Chief Class

Update: The captain (who was a Lieutenent then) exists, there were some selective ammunition shortages in training and his platoon was downsized somewhat before leaving (but was still within Army limits).  And the complaint about a lack of uparmored Humvees was unreasonable; in 2003, very few existed and a Light Infantry unit would be very unlikely to have them anyway.  Most importantly, he refuted having to ‘scrounge’ for weapons, the key point of Obama’s statement.   Bottom line: Obama’s story was pretty much A ‘Clintonian’ truth; just enough of a seed to get by without being a full-fledged lie. 

This is just amazing.  When I watched it the first time, I couldn’t believe the word’s falling out of Barack’s mouth.

Where to start:

• Captains lead companies, not platoons
• Platoons are never split up
• According to this guy, the 10th’s deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan were a year apart
• Scrounging for weapons due to some sort of supposed supply shortage is being laughed at by everyone who has been in theater.

Any this guy wants to be Commander-in-Chief?? Didn’t we reject a guy last time with a tendency to make up stories about the military (who at least served in it)?

And it is an indication of the type of people involved in Democrat debates- whether as participant, moderator, or audience- that this went right by them without so much as an eyeblink of challenge.