Posted on 05/22/2015 2:55:29 AM PDT by Libloather
Obama: We're definitely not 'losing' in Iraq - ISIS storming into Ramadi was just a 'setback' and it would be a mistake to send in U.S. ground troops
President Barack Obama echoed the many claims of his administration officials in an interview released today and said that the fall of Ramadi is a mere 'setback.'
'No, I don’t think we’re losing,' the president told The Atlantic in the Tuesday interview. 'There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback,' he said, but 'Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time.'
The president dug in his heels and said he would not send in U.S. ground troops to defend the war-torn country. Last time the U.S. came to the rescue, the Iraqi government 'squandered' the country's new found freedom, he said, by refusing to reach out to to different sects of the population.
'If the Iraqis themselves are not willing or capable to arrive at the political accommodations necessary to govern, if they are not willing to fight for the security of their country, we cannot do that for them,' Obama told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Lost a nephew in Fallujah.
Lieutenant in the Marines.
For what?
Yeah, the A-bomb on Hiroshima was just a “setback” for the Japanese, too.
Yep, the place becoming 1937 Nanking doesn’t affect his tee-time, champagne, $1000 hors d’oeuvre plate, or his next $20 million vacation to Hawaii.
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