Allen West criticized the President’s speech tonight saying it was a campaign speech and a highly politicized mission-accomplished speech minus the aircraft carrier and banner. He also brought up several good points, namely how the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will spin this speech for their own influence as well as the fact that tribal leaders respect strength and at the end of the day if we are drawing down troops and showing weakness, they will side with the Taliban:
The zing at the end about the peace prize was awesome. Go West!
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