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The Buck Stops There For Obama, everything is the fault of the 'previous administration'
Free Beacon ^ | 8/13/14 | David Rutz

Posted on 08/13/2014 12:04:35 PM PDT by Nachum

Since 2009, President Obama has often reminded audiences of actions taken by the “previous administration,” nearly always to pass off responsibility for any bad news plaguing his White House.

As recently as Saturday, Obama sought to deflect any culpability for Iraq’s deteriorating situation due to his decision to pull out all American troops by referencing the policies of the ”previous administration” of President George W. Bush.

“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was my decision,” Obama said. “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.”

The buck stops there.

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1 posted on 08/13/2014 12:04:35 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 08/13/2014 12:05:43 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

“The Buck Stops Here”

vs

“The Muck Stops Here”


3 posted on 08/13/2014 12:07:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Perhaps...

“The Muck Starts Here”

...would be better.


4 posted on 08/13/2014 12:08:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Nachum

So all the problems faced by the next president will also be able to blame them on Bush too? LOL! That wacky Kenyan.


5 posted on 08/13/2014 12:09:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
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To: Nachum

I ask every liberal who blames Bush - “When does the Obama Administration start?” or “Six years into the next Administration, will all bad news be Obama’s fault?”


6 posted on 08/13/2014 12:12:15 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Nachum

It’s his second term. He IS the previous administration!


7 posted on 08/13/2014 12:14:54 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Nachum

The narcisst-in-chief can’t accept responsibility for any failures.


8 posted on 08/13/2014 12:15:55 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Nachum

“that they wouldn’t be hauled before an Iraqi judicial system.”

Actually, I do recall that as being a very big, contentious issue. But Obola should have played it with a heavy hand, instead of just giving up. He’s weak.


9 posted on 08/13/2014 12:17:21 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Obama had no leverage and no justification to use a "heavy hand" in the matter. The U.S. government cannot pretend Iraq is a sovereign nation on one hand, then turn around and act like it still needs an occupying military force.

The end result is that Iraq has turned into the sh!t-hole that it was always destined to be. Our national disgrace is that we didn't need to piss away thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of American dollars to get it there.

10 posted on 08/13/2014 12:25:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: fatnotlazy
The narcisst-in-chief can’t accept responsibility for any failures.

When something good happens, it's "I, Me, My" but when TSHTF, it's "we, our, us".

11 posted on 08/13/2014 12:35:07 PM PDT by shove_it (Directive 10-289 lives)
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To: Nachum

Bush can never escape starting the war with Iraq. They didn’t greet us with flowers, oil did not pay for it, and it did not make it safe for us and our friends. In terms of foreign policy it was a war that keeps giving stupid ‘s’. It is history written indelibly.


12 posted on 08/13/2014 12:44:21 PM PDT by ex-snook (God forgives and forgets.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Although the situations are quite different, Japan and Germany come to mind.


13 posted on 08/13/2014 12:44:33 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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14 posted on 08/13/2014 12:46:35 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ex-snook
Bush can never escape starting the war with Iraq

The west can turn a blind eye to the aggressive military growth of the Islamic world or become victims of it.

15 posted on 08/13/2014 12:47:13 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Thank you.


16 posted on 08/13/2014 12:48:11 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: JimRed

Good one!.................


17 posted on 08/13/2014 12:58:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Nachum
"The west can turn a blind eye to the aggressive military growth of the Islamic world or become victims of it. "

Then let's give Bush, the Junior, the credit for starting the war with Islam.

18 posted on 08/13/2014 1:03:08 PM PDT by ex-snook (God forgives and forgets.)
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To: Nachum

Obama is whining like a beaten bitch dog. Oh the world has NOT been kind to him. They didn’t line up and adulate him like they should have, and its ALL Bush’s fault?

Buahahahahahahahaha!

Never send a kid to a real game of Risk. They get chewed up and spit out. Obama is lucky he is still alive and not just hyena food.

The most ideological president , Obama is also the most underqualified. Send the leftist idjit home.Retire him. Keep him on the golf course until November 2016. My Irish Setter could lead better than he does, and unlike Obama, he’s on a leash!


19 posted on 08/13/2014 1:22:51 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Baraq applied for the job. He got the job despite being completely unqualified. Now he is complaining?


20 posted on 08/13/2014 1:30:29 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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