Posted on 08/08/2014 8:33:50 AM PDT by jimbo123
After years of resisting the pull of more Mideast conflicts, President Barack Obama has sent the military back into action in Iraq, where he once accused his predecessor of waging a "dumb war."
U.S. planes on Friday bombed Islamic militants who were towing artillery outside Irbil near U.S. personnel, the Pentagon said.
The aggressive insurgency threatens to undermine Obama's legacy as the commander in chief who ended a long and unpopular war in which nearly 4,500 American troops died.
It also raises fresh questions about whether Obama's desire to end the war clouded his assessment of the risks of fully withdrawing U.S. troops, as well as his judgment about the threat posed by the extremists.
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Didn't you get the "It's okay if Obama does it" memo from the NY Times editorial board?
Obama’s legacy? It’s a legacy of utter failure and deceit.
His legacy will please Valerie Jarrett.
A Legacy of failure lies, and deceit.
You read cluelessness like this and it starts to make sense why the Times is in such financial distress.
Maybe, just maybe, the Current Occupant may find that what Bush was doing in Iraq was not just some “dumb war”.
This way to mission creep....
It’s not the thousands of Christians being forced from their homes that is important.
It is not the religious minorities being crucified that matters.
It’s not the children being systematically being beheaded that concerns the American Media.
No, it is Obama’s legacy.
allowing fags to solicit our kids,
Phoney baloney gay "marriages"
going to jail for saying "words",
Hasan at Ft Hood,
The assignation of Kaddaffi
interfering in every damn country
the Panty bomber,
the Boston Bombers, the IRS, NSA, etc etc scandal,
no government is talking to us, we've been deliberately flooded with illegals,
we're being taxed up the kazoo, gas is twice as much as it was 6 years ago,....what else could go wrong??
And then there's Obamacare..and the ruination of the entire systems of healthcare and insurance.
Obama is either going to plow through or want to get out.
The dems can’t impeach him for what reason?
Whatever reason it is, it will get old after too much more of this.
It could turn out that he wants out.
the republicans are so compromised and so weak, they won’t impeach him if he begs them to, if that’s what this is.
He’s riding bikes in Martha’s Vineyard. Kerry’s riding a Pink bike somewhere up there, and there are 40,000 people, not soldiers but families, women and children, on a mountain in the summer surrounded by murderers, who would kill every one of us who isn’t a coward enough to renounce his or her religion and convert, and he’s eating ice cream at the beach.
THe media must be just scrambling to cover for him. Maybe THEY wish for an impeachment. schadenfruede
IOW, he's an idiot ideologue. An egomaniacal dictator.
What “legacy” ?
Post of the year!
The fact that they think that dork has any kind of a positive “legacy” speaks volumes about their ineptness.
It didn’t threaten the failure, it merely confirms it.
More inept than Carter. More corrupt than Nixon. More divisive and lethargic in the face of crisis than Buchanan.
Worst. EVAH.
Since his legacy will be the destruction of the United States, this will only enhance it.
Threatens? The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.
Uh oh. Now the Administration Press (AP) is admitting that even their tentacles will not be able to hide the reality of theOnes’s incompetence. Damn the video evidence that contradicts their spin.
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