Posted on 10/23/2011 4:37:34 AM PDT by newzjunkey
Full title: Strong Words From Newt At Iowa Faith and Freedom: 'After 8 Years, We Will Leave Iraq in Defeat, Don't Kid Yourselves, It Is Defeat'
Newt Gingrich at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Dinner tonight gives some straight talk on Obama's decision (yesterday) to withdraw all American troops
Gingrich: "We lost the 3rd Iraq war. This may or may not be popular to say but as a historian I think it needs to be said. We won the first Iraq war in 1991 driving Iraq out of Kuwait in 4 days. We won the second Iraq war to defeat Saddam Hussein in 23 days...After 8 years, thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, we will leave in defeat, don't kid yourselves"
Exactly!
That SOB sold us out!!!!!I hate him. But then who elected him???Maroons! Plenty of non black middle and upper middle class Indpendents and Dems and of course the wealthy Wall St LIbs!!!
We need more Tea Party congressional and senate seats!
It is high time to pull in our horns batten down the hatches and regroup, 60 years of adventurism around the world has left us in one hellava mess. Start following the United States Constitution would be first on my agenda.
Nobody knows why we are in Iraq. Even you do not know. You just blindly support keeping troops in Iraq because Bush was instrumental in that decision. Bush is a Karl Rove Republican (i.e., an opponent of the TEA Party).
“We never would have won WWII with the current ROE.”
The Iraq war ended when Saddam was captured and the war in Germany ended when Hitler died.
The regime in charge of Iraq is a US ally. The war is over and they are saying that they don’t need any more help.
When you consider the fact that any further assistance would have to be paid for with borrowed money, this should be seen as a positive development.
Newt is by far the smartest and most intelligent politically to be POTUS but has too many personal negatives to get the job! Too bad it wasn’t just something like BJ’s in the White House.
You’ve got the wrong guy.
My Iraq plan was find Saddam, shoot him down in cold blood, and get the Hell out.
I believe that almost all of the losses in 2006, and the disaster of 2008, were caused by Bush’s foolish Iraq policy, and I have posted my reasons why on this thread and many times before.
Are you sure you are responding to a post of mine?
Hey Newt - The surge worked.
“Without bases.....we’re scr****.”
Care to explain why?
It would make much more sense to use the money to build space based weapons.
“It is highly desireable in my opinion to rebuild our defenses, and cease sending money (we don’t have) all over the world. “
Sorry, I responded to the wrong message. I actually agree with you that once Saddam was gone, it was time to get out.
I’m getting so I really don’t care about Newt’s ‘baggage’ or sitting on the couch with Nancy. We really need someone who can see the ‘big picture’ and put it in historical context or we will be doomed to repeat it.
My only concern with Newt is wondering if he has the 24/7/365 self-discipline needed in a POTUS. We can hope that’s come with maturity.
Depends on who he is serving, we know it isn’t us.
Your right it won’t make any difference who we elect to the white house if we do not control both sides of the house of reps.
guess you don’t much history....We decided to launch the Marshall plan after WWII so that we wouldn’t have a repeat of what happened to Europe, and Germany , after WWI.
Besides, Germany rebuilt made a whole lot more economic sense for us!
Now we uses our ‘bases’ there, ie Landstuhl,
to have a fast way to get our injured military medical care and we use various “bases’ in many countries to “launch “ our military offenses.
with both houses in congress we can go to the moon with a conservative Pres. and if its a DEm, we freeze him!
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