He just said Occupy and also Direct Action. WE CHANGED THE CONVERSATION!!
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J.A. Myerson (@JAMyerson) February 13, 2013The word “occupy” has received plenty of use over the last few years, and viewers of the president’s state of the union address had different reactions to Obama’s characterization of the war on terror as an American “occupation” of foreign countries.
"We don't need to occupy other nations to confront terrorism" #SOTU—
Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) February 13, 2013
So nice to hear a president say "we don't need to occupy countries" in the #stateoftheunion—
Deric Jeffrey (@DericJeffrey) February 13, 2013
Others had different words for what the United States has been doing in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Does the US occupy Afghanistan, or are we trying to save it? Calling it an occupation is insulting to our military.—
Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) February 13, 2013
"OCCUPY OTHER NATIONS"? The US liberates, Mr President #wow—
Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 13, 2013
That's what I heard too and thought I must be wrong. SCARY RT @RichardGrenell: "OCCUPY OTHER NATIONS"? The US liberates, Mr President #wow—
Linda Champney (@lindawmn) February 13, 2013
I can't believe POTUS actually said we "occupy other nations". During the SOTU. Remarkable, absolutely remarkable.—
Tommy (@OConnell75thRR) February 13, 2013
So our military going oversees are there to "occupy other countries?"—
Melvin Poe (@Melpoe) February 13, 2013
"Occupy" other nations? He can't hide how much he hates America. #tcot #sotu—
Virginia Tuckey (@virtuck) February 13, 2013
Critics of the administration’s drone program weren’t about to let the president off the hook either.
We're not going to occupy your nation, we're just gonna bomb it with a drone when we need to. #SOTU—
Sean Kristian Miller (@redcomet37) February 13, 2013
Ya see, we don't need to send soldiers or occupy places anymore — we just drone everyone, anywhere we want! #SOTU—
(@carlyGS) February 13, 2013
We don't occupy nations says POTUS … nope he'll just drone them #SOTU—
Illuminated Slave (@LuminatedSlave) February 13, 2013
we don't need to occupy other nations, just send flying killbots to bomb their weddings—
Jake (@brogepi) February 13, 2013
Right, we can't occupy other countries. We can, however, indiscriminately bomb the shit out of them! #SOTU—
Dan (@HoboWriterDK) February 13, 2013
For the sake of simplicity, we’ll give this tweeter the final word.
We don't "occupy" any nation, Mr. President. #SOTU—
Nicholas G. Hahn III (@NGHahn3) February 13, 2013
