Posted on 08/20/2014 8:48:27 AM PDT by Hojczyk
During a speech in August of 2006, the Associated Press reports that then-President George W. Bush warned of what now sounds like a premonition of what would happen in Iraq should the U.S. prematurely withdraw our troops,
"If we leave Iraq before the job is done, it will create a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, a terrorist state much more dangerous than Afghanistan was before we removed the Taliban, a terrorist state with the capacity to fund its activities because of the oil reserves of Iraq."
What Bush warned of 8 years ago is exactly what has happened. Although Iraq was -- in his words -- "a success," President Obama still ensured that success would be liquidated by prematurely withdrawing American troops. The result has been, as Bush predicted, "a terrorists state in the heart of the Middle East … more dangerous than [pre-9/11] Afghanistan."
During a speech to the CENTCOM Coalition Conference the following year in 2007, Bush again warned of the consequence of a premature Iraq withdrawal.
Withdrawal would have emboldened these radicals and extremists. It would have confirmed their belief that our nations were weak. It would help them gain new recruits, new resources. It would cause them to believe they could strike free nations at their choice.
Withdrawal would have increased the probability that coalition troops would be forced to return to Iraq one day, and confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. Failure in Iraq should be unacceptable to the civilized world. The risks are enormous.
Even though he's been president for nearly six years, with the help of his lapdog media, Obama can run around blaming everyone else for the rise of ISIS. But there's one thing Obama can't do…
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skeeter,
From your statement you may be the single rational person in all of Calif.
a scimitar?...
My dear, fellow infidel, you will not be so lucky, none of us will.
We’ll only rate a dull, rusty knife...
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Maybe Bush shouldn’t have given the speech. Apparently Valerie Jarret heard it and took instruction.
You better head on over to Ferguson because they’re there.
Utter catastrophe if you’re on the side of good and decent people. But a huge success for people like Obama who is a Muslim sympathizer, narcissist, wants to hurt all things America, and ESPECIALLY when the horrible genocidal acts ISIS commits can be used to bash political enemies.
The current trajectory supports your contention. It will happen here because the Obama regime will allow it.
> Two arrested thus far in past month. They are faceless and are hidden in the crowd (see Ferguson). The truth is the truth ... they are here.
It should make every U.S. citizen (that pays taxes) angry that they used our tax $$$ to bring the Muslim invaders across our borders
> The current trajectory supports your contention. It will happen here because the Obama regime will allow it.
Hell they planted the seeds, fertilized it, and now want to transplant it
It sure feels that way.
> People should have warned Bush that Iraq would disintegrate if he removed Saddam, the only thing holding that place together. That, too, was predictable. What a total waste of our people and resources
Not to John McCain and John Kerry’s campaign watchers and their military contractor buddies ...
> Know for certain (male) flew into JFK per report. The other (female iirc) do not know how she arrived. Were taken down in two separate incidences.
Oh so they finally nailed Huma Abedini?.../s
No telling how much intel Huma has gotten through Hillary for the past 17 years and passed along to her Muslim Brotherhood family members...
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