The 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 (@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
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/301525576672501761
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
https://twitter.com/OConnell75thRR/status/301526377298006016
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 (@carlyGS) February 13, 2013
We don't occupy nations says POTUS … nope he'll just drone them #SOTU
— Illuminated Slave (@LuminatedSlave) February 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/brogepi/status/301525714656698369
https://twitter.com/HoboWriterDK/status/301525626714738688
For the sake of simplicity, we’ll give this tweeter the final word.
https://twitter.com/NGHahn3/status/301525424574443520