Posted on 10/05/2014 4:30:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki had the difficult task of defending President Obama’s decision to pull troops out of Iraq in 2011 – and Megyn Kelly didn’t offer her any help.
On Thursday, Kelly invited Psaki on The Kelly File to respond to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s claim that the president’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq was a prematurely poor action, especially considering Panetta and several generals had warned the president against such action. Panetta says as much in his new memoir.
Here was Psaki’s response to these excerpts from Panetta’s book:
“But what happened in 2011 was that there were two major factors, one was Iraq is a sovereign country. They decide with cooperation with the United States of course what kind of presence there would or wouldn't be. The second is we didn't have the troop protections that we needed. There were legal challenges there. There was a desire to have that go through the parliament. And that just wasn't going to be politically possible.”
Kelly challenged Psaki on these points, pointing out that the number of troops Obama had proposed was too meager for former Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to take seriously. Then, she got to the real issue:
"(This is) about accountability, because the President is really very focused on what we do right now about the problem in the Middle East, and that's good. But the question also has to be answered, how did we get here?"
One person who seemed to know we would reach this current crisis, was former president George W. Bush. Brian Kilmeade interviewed 43 this past week on Fox and Friends. Kilmeade played a clip of Bush from 2007, in which he accurately described the drastic consequences that could arise if we pulled troops out of Iraq too early. Despite Bush being right on target, he declined to criticize Obama for how he’s handling the situation.
Kelly had no problem taking it to Psaki, however. Watch their fiery exchange here: Kelly Files 10-2-14
Former President Bush is still trying to keep from being a thorn in President Obama’s side. But just the existence of the videos predicting this happening in Iraq shows how utterly incompetent Obama is in comparison.
I might not like many of President Bush’s actions, but he loves the USA and cares for its soldiers and its position in the world, unlike this America hating drone we have in the position now.
islamist facilitation 101
President Bush sure loves the USA and and he cares for the troops, especially the wounded soldiers. That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave will never hold golf tournaments or mountain bike rides with them
Let’s be fair to Jen Psaki: Defending Obama’s foreign policy is a difficult task for an adolescent girl.
===========================================================
Hey, Megyn....when you gonna have this doofus on again?
The "Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" is having a bad hair day. Or is that a bad wig?
Please, you have to be kind the poor girl. Remember, she was exhausted from a whole day of pole dancing and VIP Room service at da “Bing.”
She’s so brilliant, so intellectual, so well-schooled in the nuances of brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart Progressive policies formulated by brilliant, intellectual Progressive geniuses.
Ya know?
/s/
IMHO
Psaki’s a pole dancer, too? Who knew she was so talented?
BTW, I knew DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz was doing lap dances at the border to get Democrat votes.
Good point. You know you're in trouble when most spokecritters for the Zero Administration look like they would be an MTV host if they did not work for Zero.
You’re such a good delineator of people.....even though they try to hide their talents under a bushel basket.
The great Ronaldus Reagan once said, “liberals know so much that isn’t true.”
In that segment, no matter how many times Kelly proves Psaki is wrong, the spox keeps repeating the same garbage.
Harf was my selection for pole dancer.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KfJrvCew0IY/UioYqRVrcfI/AAAAAAAACOI/JB1Y2udcXIo/s1600/Harf.jpg")
The muslims must be laughing when they see & hear these 2 kids.
It seems the number one requirement for working for this admin is to be able to lie.
Barack pledged and followed through with getting our troops out, all of them.
Barack didn't see Iraq as America's war, he saw it as a red issue and did't want any part of Iraq.
Didn't someone once say Chick'ns Coming Home To Roost!
Were there ever at the same time two spokespersons who were as ditzy and lightweight as Psaki and Harf?
She, like every member of this administration, is arrogant beyond belief.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.