FReepathon day 40.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/10/2014 4:12:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Boy you’ve got that right, Kaslin. He is a duffus.
If you were talking about Afghanistan I would agree, but I think Iraq really had a chance, as did many others.
They’re Arabs, the only thing they understand is a strongman.
He sure gloated in 2012 about Iraq. PoS.
The memory hole will take care of that.
Send a copy of this post to the Marxist’s Vineyard.
That “admission” (or passing the buck, yet again) is even worse.
It tells any 3rd wolrd two bit dictator that Obama folds with a tinsy bit political pressure.
wow, has their EVER been a more inept leader?!
NOTHING IS HIS FAULT!
I guess he should blame Carter too! since if he hadn't mucked up the whole Iran thing, Obama would of been free from this distraction and could be pushing legalized pot or gay marriage on us more!
Could well happen.
Too bad so many will have to pay with their lives.....
The present catastrophe is Iraq is most all Obama’s fault. Our reps in Iraq should have gotten Maliki in a closed door meeting and gone McArthur on him about leaving a reasonable US force there. Every decision Obama made concerning Iraq has been the wrong decision.
Obama is a loathsome mediocrity who should never have gotten above the Illinois legislature, which was also over his head.
Well, he did say that we could keep our health insurance policies...what?
That is true..but remember, when Obama said that he was obviously being misquoted..remember, nothing is ever the sweet prince’s fault..always someone elses, like Congress, or Bush, or the GOP
Classic pic.
It was no secret at all in Washington D.C., at the time, that Obama NEVER made a “full court press” to get a SOFA agreement accomplished with the government of Iraq. It was being negotiated but he was never personally invested in it nor did he attempt to use every element of leverage he could to get it done.
His promise during the campaign was to order the troops out from his first day in office.
It took a little longer, but he always made it plain that by hook or crook they were coming out.
So anyone paying attention knew that he wasn’t going to push Iraq or anyone else for the troops to remain there. He was just looking for a graceful way to justify their exit. But gracefully or not they were coming out.
a few years later when things have calmed in Iraq. Obama will be out to claim credit for leaving Iraq
“Our reps in Iraq should have gotten Maliki in a closed door meeting and gone McArthur on him about leaving a reasonable US force there. “
As I understand it, that was Obama’s job in negotiating a status of forces agreement even after Maliki said no.
Of course Malkik would argue against leaving US forces behind to garner nationalist support by being anti American. He is a politician.
We could expect that he would do that. But, behind closed doors he needed to be made to understand with some kind of bargaining chip or threat.
He needed to go back and say, “The American’s made me do it.”
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