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Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy (a liberal's critique)
The Atlantic ^
| June 23, 2014
| By Peter Beinart
Posted on 06/24/2014 9:10:17 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Remind me, hadn’t we won in Iraq under Bush and we were handing over victory to Hussein’s regime? Then the Regime threw it away?
To: Brad from Tennessee
But sooner or later, honest liberals will have to admit that Obamas Iraq policy has been a disaster.Find five honest liberals. I dare you.
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posted on
06/24/2014 9:20:04 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
"Obama inherited an Iraq where better security had created an opportunity for better government." And then 0bammy walked away from the win.
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posted on
06/24/2014 9:23:38 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Radicalized via the Internet)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Had Iraq remained stable, grown prosperous, and expanded its experiment in democracy, the Bush Administration would have ultimately been vindicated. Consciously or unconsciously Obama sabotaged U.S. relations with Iraq in hopes it would descend back into chaos. Obama was following a liberal tradition begun 35 years earlier.
After Nixon got rid of the draft, started an all-volunteer Army and Vietnamized the war, even Henry Kissinger doubted the South Vietnamese could prevail. But the ARVN slugged it out toe to toe with the North Vietnamese, beating back two major invasions. The liberals couldn't stand the possibility of Nixon being right. So in 1975 a cabal of traitors led by George McGovern, Teddy Kennedy and fellow travelers in the House, cut off all funds to the RVN and prohibited the U.S. military from lending air or naval support.
Hanoi couldn't believe the gift Congress had handed them. Within months the Soviet-supplied North Vietnamese had blasted their way to victory.
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posted on
06/24/2014 9:52:17 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Well, for the good of our country, let’s make sure he’s “all out” if he tries for another term as Speaker.
Gohmert, Hensarling, or some other conservative needs to take Suntan Johnny on.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:00:25 AM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: All
Here’s the money quote:
As a former senior White House official told Peter Baker of The New York Times, We really didnt want to be there and [Maliki] really didnt want us there.
[Y]ou had a president who was going to be running for re-election, and getting out of Iraq was going to be a big statement.
So Obama condemned Iraq to chaos for selfish poltical ends.
But, we all knew that already. Dimly encouraging, I guess, that a putz like Beinart finally figured it out.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:14:26 AM PDT
by
pluvmantelo
(Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
To: WilliamRobert
Well, I suppose Bush could come out and defend himself but he’s busy wiping the spittle from his chin and painting portraits of dogs.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:22:43 AM PDT
by
atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority everhil)
To: Uncle Miltie
Iraq was a win? For who?
We should never have been there. There was no possible good ending.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:22:51 AM PDT
by
sakic
To: sakic
Iraq was a win in 2008 for us and Iraqis.
Historical denial notwithstanding.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:44:48 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Radicalized via the Internet)
To: Brad from Tennessee
And probably too late, these brain dead lying leftists will realize that Maliki treated Sunni’s the same way Obama treated the Tea Party.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:45:03 AM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: sakic
There was no possible good ending. Saddam and his sons being killed was the good ending. Country should have been split into three after that. Was going to happen in the long run anyway. The US learned a painful lesson that Arabs and Persians do not mix well.
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posted on
06/24/2014 10:47:44 AM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
You imply that there are rational, sane liberals that would make such an admission. They can’t be reasoned with because there’s no reason in them.
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posted on
06/24/2014 11:04:46 AM PDT
by
afsnco
To: justa-hairyape
Saddam and his sons being killed was the good ending. In terms of blood and treasure, 4,500 men and three trillion dollars worth? That's what it will have cost by the time we're done caring for wounded warriors for an entire lifetime.
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posted on
06/24/2014 11:19:41 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
To: justa-hairyape
Really.
Getting Saddam and sons was worth all of the dead and maimed Americans?
I will go out on a limb and guess nobody close to you paid the price. If I am wrong, your opinion is even more pathetic.
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posted on
06/24/2014 11:51:25 AM PDT
by
sakic
To: Brad from Tennessee
This is the best Summer I’ve had since I was a kid! The Democrats are stumbling around like a bunch of drunks trying to play hopscotch.
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posted on
06/24/2014 11:51:56 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: sakic
Getting Saddam and sons was worth all of the dead and maimed Americans? Very few Americans died getting Saddam. We smashed the Iraq forces within a week. Almost all the deaths occurred during the insurgency years later which had nothing at all to do with removing Saddam and his sons. Why are you spotting progressive talking points here ?
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posted on
06/24/2014 6:21:47 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: justa-hairyape
oops..spotting should read spouting....
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posted on
06/24/2014 6:22:30 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: WilliamRobert
Bush won the war. Obama lost the peace. Has nothing to do with painting dogs or spittle.
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posted on
06/24/2014 6:24:42 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: Carry_Okie
See my response above. Freerepublic is typically above progressive canards. Again, why does the MSM continue to equate deaths during the insurgency with deaths removing Saddam and his sons ? They were two separate operations not even related. Did not even agree with trying to nation build so I view those deaths as a great tragic loss that was unnecessary. We need to run operations like the Israelis run them. In and out.
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posted on
06/24/2014 6:27:34 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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