Posted on 08/12/2014 6:48:38 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Let's review his remarks:
July 3, 2008: "My first day in office, I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in, and I will give them a new mission, and that is to end this war. ... (It would be) a strategic error for us to maintain a long-term occupation in Iraq."
July 14, 2008: "Only by redeploying our troops can we press the Iraqis to reach comprehensive political accommodation and achieve a successful transition to Iraqis' taking responsibility for the security and stability of their country."
July 14, 2008: "We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 — two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began. ... That would not be a precipitous withdrawal."
December 2008: "I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months. ... I believe that 16 months is the right time frame."
October 2011: "A few hours ago, I spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki. ... We are in full agreement about how to move forward. So today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year."
In an October 2012 presidential debate with GOP candidate Mitt Romney, Obama actually denied wanting a force protection agreement from the Iraqi government.
"That's not true," Obama interjected. "Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?" Romney asked.
"No," Obama said. "What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East."
His scapegoating of the Iraqi government for his premature withdrawal shows that his leadership is even weaker than we thought.
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The link doesn’t link.
waaaaaaaaah! Iraq didn’t recognize baraq’s greatness
Our president is a dipshit.
Page does not exist.
“Not my fault” says bh0
3 words that you will never hear with any sincerity from this president - “my own fault”
“Page does not exist.”
See?? That’s the problem!
Didn’t he just blame Pres. Bush? I guess that’s become such a joke that he’s having to switch excuses for the latest of his failures.
Everything Clown Prince nobama does is intentional. From the perspective of a sane person who loves the United States, Clown Prince nobama is an incompetent and an abject failure. From the perspective of Clown Prince nobama’s stated intentions, he being very successful. It is difficult for many to accept that they elected a degenerate anti-American liar and traitor to the Presidency.
Of course it isn’t his fault. Nothing is his fault.
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