Posted on 08/08/2014 11:15:13 AM PDT by Starman417
By now everyone should know that anything Obama says today is void tomorrow.
Despite the fact that far too late Obama is doing the right thing in Iraq, this is a good time to crank up the Wayback Machine and revisit the monster known as Hubris Obamus.
2007: Preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
First, though, let's acknowledge that Obama did keep his word about one thing. 1500 civilians were recently slaughtered by ISIS. Obama didn't even blink. To his credit, he told us that genocide wasn't enough for him to act.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,” Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.
2011: ‘We’re Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKSb2ukQxvY
It was a "moment of success," he said.
Ironically, he said it at Fort Bragg
June 2014: Obama Rules Out Airstrikes in Iraq for Now
Mr. Obama ultimately may decide not to order air attacks, senior U.S. officials said, bucking what for days appeared to be the leading U.S. option to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, the terror group that has seized a large swath of Iraq’s north and west. U.S. strikes are still actively under discussion, but the officials cautioned Tuesday that they don’t expect Mr. Obama to put military action back on the table quickly, and said he may announce steps in a broader U.S. response over time.
August 2014 White House: “There Are No Military Solutions In Iraq… Only Political”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9iNY2L_Ha4
George Bush 2005: Bush: Leaving Iraq Too Soon Would Endanger America
Leaving Iraq before the mission there is finished will make America less, not more, secure and will send a dangerous message that will ring around the world, President Bush said today here at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. Speaking the day before Iraq's national elections, Bush disputed critics who claim the United States would be safer and Iraq less violent if the United States withdrew its forces there."This view presumes that if we were not in Iraq, the terrorists would be leaving us alone," Bush said.
2014: Hayden: Obama Pulled Out of Iraq Too Soon
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His voters are too “ignant” to realize there’s a difference between ending a war and winning one.
He didn’t end anything. Its still going on. He just quit on our behalf. But certainly he did not end the war over there.
yes, the quickest and easiest way to end a war is to lose it. so, technically, he’s correct. he ended one war, but his sheer incompetence has started a new, bigger one.
He ended it. Ok.
His recent use of bombs to attack ISIS would thus require Obama to enact the War Powers Act.
Firing off Tomahawk cruise missiles was a good strategy for ole BJ Clinton every time he wanted to get the media talking about something new.
Looks like the regime has discovered this useful option.
40% still “approve” of Obama. We have at least 40% imbeciles in this nation.This explains a lot of America’s decline in both domestic and international affairs. Many of them are indoctrinated and cannot possibly think for themselves. A good number them are high school drop outs and part of the cotton and banana plantations. This explains why we have the likes of Durbin, Schummer, Boxer, Feinstein, Mikulski etc. and yes, the Obamas and Clintons.
He did not end the war in Iraq, he ended United States involvement in the war in Iraq.
No more Iraq, no more war in Iraq! Simple!
Case in point, Bush signed the agreement to bring the troops home in 2008 … an agreement that established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.
But now he'll blame Bush for causing the problems in Iraq … mark my words.
Exactly right...he didn’t end it he just stopped fighting it.
Meanwhile, Obama will be closely monitoring the situation and gathering all the facts to make sure that this never happens again.
When the Muslim Brotherhood and the Democrat Brotherhood work together with Putin, ANYTHING is possible!
Speaking about ISIS to The New Yorker in January, Obama said: ‘The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.’
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