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Flashback: George W. Bush Predicted Iraqi Meltdown If US Troops Were Withdrawn from Region
The Gateway Pundit ^
| 6/16/14
| Jim Hoft
Posted on 06/16/2014 3:07:25 PM PDT by Nachum
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:07:25 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:08:00 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Nachum
Prophetic! Bush was right, God bless him.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:11:26 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: Nachum
Of course, the lefties think we should still be starving them to death at a rate of hundreds of thousands a year.
Well, not exactly, but that's still what would be happening if we did things their way.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:11:40 PM PDT
by
TwelveOfTwenty
(See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
To: Nachum
Thanks for the ping——good stuff.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:12:12 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Nachum
Why'd he go in, then?
Did he expect us to stay there forever?
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:13:23 PM PDT
by
x
To: x
Going in might have been bad enough, leaving early was a disaster. Obama and his gang of Rats did the worst thing they could have done, for politics.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:16:04 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:16:39 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: x
Long enough, there are a lot of places that we have maintained a presence for generations.
Generations of American military families have gone through our bases in various nations around the globe.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:17:11 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: Nachum
Obama likes to take credit for ending the war and bringing the troops home. I guess now he’ll change his tune and blame Bush for bring the troops home before the job was done.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:17:41 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: ansel12
Germany, sure.
The Philippines, fine.
Korea, even.
Iraq -- not such a good idea to begin with.
Bush's advice in 2007 may have been sound.
2003? Not so much.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:20:12 PM PDT
by
x
To: Nachum
So why did Bush sign the Status of Forces Agreement in the fall of 2008? It required All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:20:21 PM PDT
by
ConstantSkeptic
(Be careful about preconceptions)
To: x
America still has troops in Germany 70 years after the event.
Foreign military bases are a good thing. They give the US options and global reach, and access to novel training grounds - as well as reinforcing geopolitical allies.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:24:16 PM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: Genoa
Unlike the Left, GWB knew some history other than Marx.
There is enormous responsibility on conquerors to maintain order in conquered lands. Like the adage of, “if you break it, you own it,” after busting up Iraq we owned it. To withdraw precipitously is to invite horror.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:25:02 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th. Article V.)
To: Nachum
Where is George Bush?
Millions endangered by obama’s actions. You just know obama going to let Iran get nuclear weapons and I bet he still won’t talk.
Stop being quiet about what is happening.
To: Nachum
There is only one thing that we could not give to them people and that is guts.
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To: x
Did he expect us to stay there forever? Well we pulled out, and what we got was different from all the places where we maintained a presence, including the ones on your list that you approve of.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:31:21 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: Jacquerie
Unlike the Left, GWB knew some history other than Marx. I read a column once that was raving about W's ignorance of history and how if he had ever read a book on it, it would educate him.
The writer didn't know that Bush's Yale degree, is in history.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:34:23 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: ansel12
Well we pulled out, and what we got was different from all the places where we maintained a presence, including the ones on your list that you approve of.
What we should have asked -- but didn't -- was "is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?"
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:44:16 PM PDT
by
x
To: ansel12
Absolutely what we should have done.
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posted on
06/16/2014 3:44:35 PM PDT
by
Jedidah
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