Obama's 2012 Debate Boast: I Didn't Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq

Weekly Standard ^ | 8/9/14 | JOHN MCCORMACK

[Nachum]

Before leaving for vacation on Saturday, President Obama spoke briefly about the genocidal Islamist terrorists who are taking over large swaths of Iraq. When one reporter asked the president if he regretted not leaving any U.S. troops in Iraq, Obama replied that that wasn't even an option:

Q Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq? And does it give you pause as the U.S. -- is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?

THE PRESIDENT: What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government. In order for us to maintain troops in Iraq, we needed the invitation of the Iraqi government and we needed assurances that our personnel would be immune from prosecution if, for example, they were protecting themselves and ended up getting in a firefight with Iraqis, that they wouldn’t be hauled before an Iraqi judicial system.

[Nachum]

Another crisis, another lie. Ho hum.

[Nachum]

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[stanne]

Brave, brave Sir Robin, he did not run away, oh no, he did not!

[sickoflibs]

Great find!

[Tau Food]

Well, I don't want to send troops back to Iraq. The Sunnis and the Shiites believe that they are fighting over some very important doctrinal issues that need to be solved. Most of us in the U.S. don't understand these issues or care about them. We have no way of choosing the right side because both sides are probably wrong.

I don't want any part of it. If there are Americans who believe that they understand these religious disputes and believe that they know which side is right, then those Americans can, if they wish, go to Iraq and join their favorite side. But, most of us here don't feel we have a dog in the fight.

If we can do something from the air to protect the Kurds, I am inclined to support that effort, but the Muzzie vs. Muzzie fights hold no interest for me.

[Nachum]

Brave brave brave Sir Robin :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8

[dfwgator]

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[stanne]

He bravely turned his tail and fled...

[CivilWarBrewing]

I wonder if Barry had to get special permission from Saudi Arabia to give aid and help defend the Yazidis..

[WhirlwindAttack]

At least he didn’t boast that he didn’t want any penises in his butt and that he wouldn’t spend money we don’t have like a drunken sailor while vacationing and playing golf more than any other president in history, while destroying our way of life.

[reefdiver]

It is a good find, libs will be covering for zer0’s mess by saying over and over that we had to go. We did not! And it was a functioning government that was a democracy. Obama deserted these people, dishonored our fallen troops, waisted the efforts of millions and has set up a base for world terrorism.

Obamas lie must be exposed, over and over again

[a fool in paradise]

Heard Rush play a clip this week where Obama was boasting of Iraq having a sovereign government now. When they were out protesting the war against Saddam, we were told that too was a sovereign government.

BTW we are not permitted to defend our sovereign nation from the invasion on our southern border.

[rodguy911]

Here's a few clips from the link:

"Keeping nearly 20,000 troops in Iraq was judged by State and Defense department officials too politically volatile in both Iraq and the United States. So they whittled down Gen. Austin’s request to 10,000 personnel. That’s still a substantial force package—amounting to two Brigade Combat Teams plus enablers—and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Admiral Mullen, and other senior leaders signed off."

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"When U.S. representatives presented this proposal to Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister gave his tacit support provided that other Iraqi politicos did so. Remarkably enough, despite nationalist sentiment in Iraq against “foreign occupation”—a sentiment fed by Iranian propaganda—all of the major Iraqi political factions, save the Sadrists, gave their assent on August 2 to open negotiations with the United States on precisely these terms. And even the Sadrists merely abstained instead of voting against negotiations."

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"At the same time, the Iraqi government announced a belated decision to purchase 36 F-16 fighters from America. The pieces appeared to be in place for a long and fruitful strategic relationship between one of the world’s oldest democracies and one of the newest. And then, just as negotiations between the U.S. and Iraqi governments were heating up on a new status of forces agreement, the administration let on that it wanted to keep no more than 4,000 troops there. That request, which is completely at odds with the best advice of military commanders on the ground, undercuts the position of American negotiators and suggests that Iraq’s future is of little importance to the United States."

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IN other words the regime had it all planned to undermine the true victory GW Bush produced in Iraq by sabotaging any plan to leave a substantial force to protect the gains made by years of US victories in Iraq and then blame it on Bush if anyone said anything.

If you are a secret muzzie and secretly want ISIS,the MB and other Sunni Muslim terrorists to succeed you would do exactly what our regime did in Iraq and is doing today.