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(CBS News) As actor Clint Eastwood ad-libbed through his 10-minute speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, he -- intentionally or not -- took some liberties with the truth. Here's a look at some of the misleading or inaccurate statements Eastwood made as he pretended to berate President Obama on stage.
Romney wants to bring home troops from Afghanistan tomorrow
What Eastwood said (pretending to address Mr. Obama):
You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years. But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe -- I think you've mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, "Why are you giving the date out now? Why don't you just bring them home tomorrow morning?"
President Obama has defended the Afghanistan war as "fundamental to the defense of our people," but he didn't start the war, as Eastwood may have been suggesting -- the conflict started in 2001.
At the end of 2011, the Obama administration pulled 100,000 troops out of Afghanistan, and the U.S. is now committed to keeping combat troops there through 2014 -- and leaving troops on the ground after that to assist Afghan forces. Under Mr. Obama, 23,000 more troops are slated to come home from Afghanistan in September, but Marine Gen. John Allen has said he won't make his recommendation on the pace of further reductions until the end of the year.
War in Afghanistan disappears from campaign discourseRomney has, as Eastwood suggested, called Mr. Obama naive for agreeing with NATO to end its combat role in Afghanistan by 2014, and he said in July that heopposes the plans to withdraw 23,000 more troops this year.
Still, Romney is far from saying about the troops, "Why don't you just bring them home tomorrow morning?" Romney's campaign website says, "Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan under a Romney administration will be based on conditions on the ground as assessed by our military commanders."
i change my opinion, i now think it was a contrived and disguised effort to Obama bash on commander skills, veiled with a as we all took it a failed comic skit, if true Clint could have pulled off one of the best performances of his life.
and please don't forget he has a new picture about to be released free advertisement? again if true who used who? Oscar?
What he said:
I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. You are an -- an ecological man. Why would you want to drive that around?
slamming student loans and the young folk? are they not equally as important as Ryan's mom?
