Live Thread: Obama to Make Statement on Iraq 12:30 p.m. EDT 6/19/2014

CBS News via Twitter ^ | Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Charles Kaye

[kristinn]

BREAKING. President in the briefing room around 12:30P ET for statement on Iraq.

Steve Brusk, CNN: The president's meeting with the national security team will be in the WH Situation Room beginning in about ten minutes

[SoFloFreeper]

More failure.

[molson209]

Obama will tell the ISIS what he is going to do before he tell the troops

[Genoa]

Maliki’s fault.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Chuck Todd has knee pads at the ready.

[headstamp 2]

“It’s all Bush’s fault. WAAAAAH!”

[Genoa]

Sending stuff for ISIS.

[angcat]

Just in time to interrupt Rush.

[Nervous Tick]

I wonder how many seconds into the speech before he blames Bush.

This fairly well screams for an office pool!

[newnhdad]

Obama is never on time.. it’ll be closer to 1pm..

[fatnotlazy]

Thanks for the warning. I’ll spend the time watching paint dry.

[SIRTRIS]

He’ll start with one of his one-liners, “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

[winoneforthegipper]

Special forces going in from what i heard....

[ColdOne]

Wow doing it during Rush.

[molson209]

Obama will remove Nouri al-Maliki and take charge of Iraq and lead them to a Great Victory , D’oh

[1Old Pro]

“I inherited this mess from George Bush”

I will tiptoe thru the tulips so as not to get anyone upset with me. That said, we will have limited air strikes that really won’t accomplish anything more that making it appear that I’m doing something. This will get the media off my back and back to carrying me, theway I like it.

Bottom line, I’m planning my vacation and this is all a major distration.

[AU72]

I got 12:52 PM in the Start time pool.

[blueunicorn6]

“The Democrat Party has found a way to skim money off of any Iraqi operations, so now, I’m going to start to pay attention to this.”

Maybe Malaki came up with some gold.

[sheana]

I thought he just gave a speech the other day on Iraq. Maybe this speech will fix it. If not, he can give another. He has unlimited speech ability.

[A Navy Vet]

Drinking game: Have a shot every time he says “I”. Bet you won’t be able to find your bathroom to puke.