Posted on 05/23/2016 5:25:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett was tasked with listing some of the ways President Obama made good on his promise to bring “hope and change” to America during her interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” this weekend. She cited a declining unemployment rate, a revived automobile industry and the millions of Americans who now have health care as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Some of those “accomplishments” are debatable, but one was downright false. During her answer, Jarrett had the audacity to say that Obama “ended two wars” during his two-term tenure.
Jarrett’s comments would be news to our military. The president declared he was pulling out American troops from Iraq in 2011, only to send over 4,000 soldiers back. Meanwhile, we are launching thousands of airstrikes against ISIS and assisting Iraqi forces in their new effort to retake the important city of Fallujah.
The Obama administration has had a hard time using the word “combat” to describe our presence in Iraq, despite military serviceman being killed while fighting ISIS. Earlier this month, Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV became the third service member to fall on the front lines of battle.
Oh, and Jarrett’s “60 Minutes” interview aired at the same time our military launched a drone strike against a major Taliban leader.
While the interview may have been conducted before the official Pentagon announcement, her comments coincided with the news that a drone strike had taken out Taliban leader Mansour in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan – the latest sign of the prolonged fight in the Middle East and South Asia.
So, we’ll ask again: What exactly are President Obama's accomplishments?
To put it in a way that us troglodyte-brained conservatives can understand: when the Republicans do it, they’re “wars”; when Democrats do it, they’re “peacekeeping missions”. Now can’t you see that these are completely different things? A legacy-making difference, even.
Wow, she was right.
I thought you might be interested in the work of the hard-working FReepers I addressed in post 39....since you’ve got the countdown....
I shudder to think what else he can do as time runs out and he grows ever more desperate.
Guarantee the families of the US Seal and Marine who recently die don’t feel like any wars ended.
Turning the country into fairy-land.
Jarrett is a friggin loon. Dumber than a box of rocks.
I don’t know about you but that woman has a face I’d love to kick in with a steel toed boot.
two wars ending. HUH. It takes both sides to end a war , not frigging say it is over and the other side is still fighting.
To think there are still people dumb enough to say they voting for this idiotic crap.
Obama just made the wars bigger and added a few more
0blama ended two wars, the War on Terror and the War on Drugs.
Did he end them or simply pull out early leaving no one satisfied and creating a void in leadership?
The traitor has accomplished much including all his appointees throughout the government who are malignant timebombs. Mission accomplished.
She has the face for a paper sack to put over it.
Ugly as home-made soap.
I could press her face in dough, and make Gorilla Cookies!
How much military adventurism is he conducting? Democrats are famous for that. I know he has troops in Congo and probably other central African countries - a monstrously bad idea.
DUMB & DUMBER
Yes, but neither country is currently a war zone.
Ending a war through victory is not the same as quitting a war.
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