Live Thread: Obama to Make Statement on Iraq 12:30 p.m. EDT 6/19/2014

CBS News via Twitter ^ | Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Charles Kaye

[kristinn]

BREAKING. President in the briefing room around 12:30P ET for statement on Iraq.

Steve Brusk, CNN: The president's meeting with the national security team will be in the WH Situation Room beginning in about ten minutes

[ColdOne]

let me guess Bush’s fault, maliki must go. I, I, I and uh, uh uh?

[kristinn]

He’s blaming Maliki for failure to come to troop agreement in 2011.

[Grampa Dave]

"Blaming Bush now. What took him so long. I guess he wanted to end with that, as if it was the most important thing he had to say. Turd."

[ColdOne]

OK....msm has been pushing that one for a couple of days.

[kristinn]

Marc Thiessen wrote a piece this week explaining that number of troops Obama wanted to leave was so small it wasn’t worth the political headache for Maliki.

[ColdOne]

I heard Cheney say that last night on Kelly File.

[kristinn]

Obama asked about Syria. He’s never wrong you know. And he’ll talk all day to tell you he’s never wrong.

[ColdOne]

I think Cheney said Maliki thought obama wasn’t serious about the amount of troops, so he gave up.

[ColdOne]

What is he saying about Syria?

[Genoa]

“No Whack-a-mole.” “Effective partnerships.”

[advertising guy]

something big is up...Obama looks terrible..

[kristinn]

I’ll have to wait for the transcript. Hard for me to hear where I’m at.

[samadams2000]

Mumbling, incoherent, embarrassment.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Lest we forget: ‘May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret ‘Special Advisers’ to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of ‘counter-insurgency’ in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.’

I’m MAKING myself (barf bag at the ready) listen to this drug-addled PUTZ who is supposedly The Leader of the Free World. Looks like we’re goin’ in! Funny. The END GAME was to keep American troops there to keep the peace.

When elected, this PUTZ basically TOLD THE ENEMY that if they’d just hunker down for a few years and wait us out, he’d be pulling out the peacekeeping troops, then the terrorists could basically HAVE Baghdad, our TAXPAYER FUNDED Embassy and kill as many Americans and allies on the way out as they wanted!

Aarrgghhhh!

[clintonh8r]

Sending 300 “trainers”? I’d say when you’re being overrun that training isn’t the solution to your problem....

[Genoa]

Mumbling, incoherent, embarrassment.

More than usual? He is out of his element and it shows.

[redcatcherb412]

Yes Kennedys 1960 legacy. And we all know what happened to him a few years later.

[Buckeye McFrog]

something big is up...Obama looks terrible..

probably got a look at the internals of his REAL poll numbers

[advertising guy]

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[CedarDave]

"something big is up...Obama looks terrible.." probably got a look at the internals of his REAL poll numbers

The only public event that perks him up are his fundraisers where his declining but still adoring true believers throw donations his way. That is, of course, provided the teleprompter is working.