Posted on 08/08/2014 6:51:44 AM PDT by kristinn
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on U.S. operations in Iraq:
“The president’s authorization of airstrikes is appropriate, but like many Americans, I am dismayed by the ongoing absence of a strategy for countering the grave threat ISIS poses to the region. Vital national interests are at stake, yet the White House has remained disengaged despite warnings from Iraqi leaders, Congress, and even members of its own administration. Such parochial thinking only emboldens the enemy and squanders the sacrifices Americans have made. The president needs a long-term strategy – one that defines success as completing our mission, not keeping political promises – and he needs to build the support to sustain it. If the president is willing to put forward such a strategy, I am ready to listen and work with him. For now, I wish Godspeed to all our men and women participating in these operations.”
It is difficult to refer to "the same Boehner" as he's all over the place. What has to happen is the US has to admit its mistake and help Assad defeat these maniacs from their bases there.
How long will I have to wait for a DC pol or the media to come out and say the US created ISIS?
My question is why did we even go in the first place in the Gulf War?
So one Arab country attacked another, why was that our concern?
We should be supporting governments that protect their minorities. They're the govs we've been working to overthrow.
Don’t light a match near him.
We will have cobwebs on us before a Pol or Mediot admits that fact.
ISIS is 0b0z0’s crISIS. This is the child of 0cawad. It’s another offshoot of his Moslem Brotherhood buddies that 0b0z0 and McPain armed from Libya.
ISIS “children” will come through our borders and that will be what 0b0z0 created human crISIS.
This the chance to kill them ALL where they stand.
Like anyone gives any more of a sh** about Bonehead than they do about the Obamadork.
Politics is where we send our least capable.
Must be the Scotch talking.
“My question is why did we even go in the first place in the Gulf War?”
Briefly, to stop evil from flourishing and being exported from the region. W did that, and BO is reversing what he did.
What evil? Kuwait is just as bad, they just put on a friendlier face, like the Saudis.
And you know all those stories about Iraqis stealing incubators were a bunch of made up BS, right?
Putin has made Soebarkah (the Acorn community organizer) running around in circles, castrated him to being totally impotent!!!
Again, do you support the airstrikes against ISIL?
Iraq took over Kuwait and invaded parts of Saudi Arabia. It had an impact on the entire region including a global strategic commodity—oil—that affects the world economy. Our strategic national interests were at stake.
Only because we decided to be slaves to the Saudis, courtesy of their agents, like James Baker.
Post 15...
..half a barrel, at least.
I spent five years in the Kingdom, including during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. I also went up to Kuwait a few days after the war was over flying over and driving thru the burning oil fields. The idea that we should have allowed Saddam Hussein to takeover Kuwait is nonsense.
We should have taken the hint back in 73, to get away from the Saudis.
What do you think they do with all that money? They are the biggest financiers of international terrorism in the world. They are just real good at keeping their friends close and their enemies even closer.
Agreed! A typical Boner form letter, in which he fills in the blanks.
Oh, oh, get ready for the Bush hater’s to chime in.
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