Obama in 2009: 'We Will Begin to Responsibly Leave Iraq to Its People'

The Weekly Standard ^ | 6/12/14 | JERYL BIER

[Nachum]

As the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate, President Obama's Iraq policy is coming under increasing scrutiny. On the Senate floor today, Senator John McCain even said: "It's time that the president got a new national security team." But the White House website's page on Iraq continues to tout Iraq as a "promise kept," noting that in President Obama's first inauguration speech, he said, "We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people," a mission he gave his national security team on his first full day in office:

[Nachum]

The call him "The Rapper- rap rap rap... you know what he's after..."

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[TADSLOS]

Note to Bergdahl. Pay attention to a pro. This is the way you REALLY desert.

[Nachum]

The Jaggerz - ‘The Rapper’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYV3dJp-k4

[Servant of the Cross]

And so the US Embassy in Baghdad readies for its Saigon moment - for the helicopters on the roof, and the executions of the "friends" they left behind.

To the people who cheered when those towers tumbled 13 years ago, there is no Bush, no Obama, no Clinton. There is only America. And when the black flag of al Qaeda is raised in Baghdad it will be seen, correctly, as an American defeat. We have told the world something about ourselves, and the world will conduct its affairs accordingly.

As to the suggestion that it doesn't matter because we should "come home" to a domestic Green Zone, ask those seven-year-old moppets pouring across the southern border how impressed they are by "Fortress America".

... Mark Steyn: Helicopters on the Roof

[brooklyn dave]

all I have to say re: our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thank you Mr. Bush and thank you Mr. Obama
blood and treasure lost for what
some neocon, one-worlder, brain fart where our soldiers
are dead and wounded and what does America has to show
for it? Oh yes, a nice department of Homeland Security
that is gradually eroding all our civil liberties.

[brooklyn dave]

all I have to say re: our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thank you Mr. Bush and thank you Mr. Obama
blood and treasure lost for what
some neocon, one-worlder, brain fart where our soldiers
are dead and wounded and what does America has to show
for it? Oh yes, a nice department of Homeland Security
that is gradually eroding all our civil liberties.

[no-to-illegals]

and obama says ... What does that mean?

[Responsibility2nd]

"Dude, that was like two five years ago."

[Nowhere Man]

I think we’d be better off if we let Saddam (or his sons) in charge of Iraq by leaving them alone. As bad as they were, at least they kept the radicals under wraps and was a check against Iran.

[anymouse]