Posted on 09/24/2014 10:31:50 AM PDT by Starman417
Way back in 2002, then-Senator Barack Obama had a lot to say about the Iraq war.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear — I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
And the key argument against going to war in Iraq?
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States...
So going to war against Saddam Hussein was "dumb" because Hussein posed no imminent or direct threat to the US. Obama doctrine then was we don't go to war when there is no imminent threat.
In 2003 George W. Bush said
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.
On 2002 Nancy Pelosi said:
I have seen no evidence or intelligence that suggests that Iraq indeed poses an imminent threat to our nation.
Flash forward to today:
Obama: ISIS is not a direct or imminent threat. Head of DHS Jeh Johnson:
Hours before Barack Obama is to announce an expanded military campaign against Islamic State (Isis) militants, his senior homeland security official assessed that the organization poses no imminent danger to America at home.“At present, we have no credible information that [Isis] is planning to attack the homeland of the United States,” Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson told a Manhattan audience on Wednesday.
Johnson is the latest in a string of top US officials to concede that the jihadist army currently in control of much of eastern Syria and northern and central Iraq is not targeting the US at present, despite beheading two captured American journalists.
If ISIS is not a direct or imminent threat, why are we bombing them? Does this not qualify as a "dumb war"? Here's what Obama said about ISIS:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I’m sure that it is really ok with most of the Left. They don’t seem too upset about it. And somehow it will be “different” since their side is running the show.
No he has not.
GWB was actually trying to win.
Obama is full of shit.
Political hacks... Maybe our candidates should stop holding back and call the left what they are.
Ugly rhetoric hasn’t seemed to hurt any of the Democrat politicians. At least the ugly things we can say about the left are true.
With all due disrespect, Buraq Hussein is no George W. Bush
but Obama has a peace prize (snark)
Too bad the MSM is not trumpeting it.
He bombed empty buildings. He doesn’t want to kill these terrorists, he is one.
Love him or hate him, George Bush loved America and it’s military. You can not compare the lowlife that hates AMERICA, all it stands for and the men and women that serve to defend her to Bush in any way.
no war for polling points
Well, ISIS now has Saddam’s WMD and is using them. Someone somewhere must think that’s a threat.
” - - - Obama is full of shit. “
AND IT SHOWS
While I’ll agree that George W. Bush wasn’t a perfect, Constitution-respecting president, what Obama has morphed into, imo, is the demonized stereotype of Bush created by the corrupt Democrats in cahoots with the corrupt media. Psalms 35:7-8 comes to mind.
Obama couldn’t shine G.W.Bush’s shoes.No matter what you may think about W’s economic or Foriegn policy.He was always pro-America.Unlike the Commie S.O.B.presently occupying the White House.
Hell, I am upset as a conservative that we have another George Bush running this country.
BO was a state senator back then...
GWB's goal wasn't a worldwide caliphate.
Agreed absolutely!
This is a charade.
This is 0bama using the Bill Clinton, “Let’s bomb this so they stop talking about that”, option.
He is the “Commander in War Chief”
I wonder how far down this will push his approval rating...
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