W painting himself in a bathtub while his 'democracy project' IMPLODES!!

Bush and Cheney BROKE my country! Bush and Cheney BROKE my military. Bush and Cheney DESTROYED IRAQ. BUSH AND CHENEY POURED GASOLINE ON A SMOLDERING FIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I hope each is experiencing NIGHT TERRORS every time they lay their heads down on their 'designer' pillows each night. I pray if they can't sleep, instead of counting sheep, GOD puts images of DEAD IRAQI CHILDREN for them to count! Apparently, images and counting DEAD SOLDIERS didn't keep them from digging down and destroying anyone or anything that got in their way of their OIL GRAB! (A DEMOCRACY 'project', getting WMD or even taking down a tyrant--was all bull(*)(*)(*)(*) and even the partisan peoplee on this board KNOW IT!!)

As far as BARACK OBAMA'S fault? NO ONE is fooled by this monumental cluster(*)(*)(*)(*) created before 99% of us knew who the hell Barack Obama was!! (The Iraq invasion was laid out in Cheney's office--a year before Senator Obama was elected).

Mod Edit ~ Be mindful of Rule 6 I was outraged then and here I am AGAIN. And I have to watch in 'real time' the chaos and carnage of a country imploding knowing full well my country is WHOLLY RESPONSIBLE for the same. I wonder about the young men and women who are 'broken' (some irrevocably), who were sent to a war for profit by a man who paints pictures of himself in a bathtub. Maybe if they are lucky, they are taught NOT TO THINK--certainly not about the CIVILIAN gamesmanship and OIL INDUSTRY PROFITEERS that put them there. Perhaps they DARE not to think..


...So it’s hard not to compare that sacrifice in the past with this implosion in the present, and say, “for what?”
Put simply: for each other. It’s a common sentiment among troops on the battlefield: they fight for each other, not politics or national security goals devised a long way away, in heads above suits and ties...


http://blogs.militarytimes.com/battle-rattle/2014/06/12/iraq-implosion-veterans/

 

Iraq seemed to be going quite well under Bush's leadership.

Most logical and rational Americans see that.

Obama has been in the White House and fully in control of Iraq operations and policy for 6 years.

I am not even surprised that the left is trying to pass this back to Bush.

Obama will be known as the most do-nothing president of our time.

 

So... the Middle East is not Obama's but Bush and Cheney fault... WTF did you Liberals sent a child to do a man's job then, to try and right all the wrongs? Have you no brains? We've warned you ahead of time, Obama was no Commander-in-Chief material...

 

Iraq operations and policy were effectively shut down before Obama even took office.

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What would be different if McCain or Romney were president right now?

 

Obama will end up with more innocents' blood on his hands than any president in history. Dems must be so proud.

 

No sir, at any time POTUS could have taken control, worked within SOFA. That is what leaders do.

 

So the man was a lame duck?

Come on man.

Obama is the leader of the free world. Suck it up and demand that he take responsibility for his inaction.

Blaming Bush for something 6 years into Obama's presidency is absolutely ridiculous.

 

The SOFA states that we are not allowed to have any troops in Iraq after December 31st 2011 and has no provision for returning them to Iraq. What exactly could Obama do? Should he sign a new SOFA with Iraq that would allow the Iraqis to try US soldiers in Iraqi courts?

 

You desperate NONSENSE fools no one. Americans realize that this is , yet another, Obama catastrophe.

 

Bush signed the SOFA that mandated our withdrawal and Iraqis mandated that any new SOFA have a proviso allowing them to try US soldiers in Iraqi courts. What exactly was Obama supposed to do?

 

Negotiate, amend and be a leader.....a Statesman. POTUS not only took his eye off the ball but turned his back.

This is not a left or right issue.

 

Dunno about McCain, but with Romney we'd be infinitely better off today. At least, he'd be showing up to work every day, and on weekends, too.

 

So what you're saying is Obama is so inept that 6 years later Bush is still basically leading this nation? Maybe you should have elected a different president.

 

Do you think that President Obama has even bothered to make contact with Nori Al-Maliki?

I would think that would be a good place to start.

 

why dont you ask obama that question

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obama is just stalling until al queda takes iraq over, then he'll claim he cant do anything about it.

 

You have what evidence to support this claim?

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Why would I have any reason to believe he hasn't?

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I'd rather ask the Rightwingers who (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) about Obama not doing anything but don't offer a single alternate plan of action that could actually work in the real world or that isn't entirely made up of meaningless platitudes like "show strength".

 

ok, sure. Obama should have known this was going to happen, when he sold qatar 23 billion dollars in US weaponry.

My personal opinion is he did know, and everything is unfolding in Iraq according to his plan of action.

The Qatari Deal To Hold The Taliban – The Qataris Have Been Used Before By President Obama – With Horrific Consequences, As U.S. Stinger Missiles Sold To Taliban

 

While you're probably sick of hearing about Iraq, it is crucial that you read this letter. Before I say anything else, I'd like to state the following disclaimer for Iraq's benefit: Warning! This letter may contain sarcasm. Okay, now that that's taken care of, let me posit the hypothesis that prudence is no vice. Cowardice—especially Iraq's drossy form of it—is.

I don't normally want to expose anyone to rigorous sarcasm, satire and disdain, but Iraq certainly deserves it. To put a little finer edge on the concept, anyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for “advanced” thought in the humanities already knows that one of Iraq's most unrealistic votaries is the point man in a process of creeping fascistization of our society. What may be news, however, is that when I was growing up, we were taught that one should always try to oppugn Iraq's temeritous put-downs. Nowadays, it seems that more and more kids are being taught that Iraq can absorb mana by devouring its rivals' brains. You can thank Iraq for this salacious pedagogical viewpoint, especially given that it has a vested interest in maintaining the myths that keep its gestapo loyal to it. Iraq's principal myth is that its vices are the only true virtues. The truth is that I know more about pessimism than most people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that Iraq's capilotades are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of obscurantism. The bottom line is that fogyism is something to be prevented, not promoted.

 

What did you base your voting for Obama on? Wait, I know, I know...

Articulate,
Clean shaven
Mainstream

and most importantly...

Its high time we have us a black president!

Romney was, and is of known quality - you just knew he would not (*)(*)(*)(*) with IRS or Benghazi for political reasons. With Obama, not so much

 

We have the terrorist on the run!!!!

[video=youtube;FvVR3FjyoR8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVR3FjyoR8[/video]

 

AND changing conditions AFTERWARD ( arab spring islamist offensive, etc.) call for a CHANGE OF POLICY.

But, of course, that would require ACTUAL LEADERSHIP, with an UNDERSTANDING of the ISLAMIST THREAT, which leaves OUT our current POTUS, unfortunately.

 

Obama was not the first president to sell weapons to Qatar. We've been doing it since Reagan. They host our military forces, provide an important air base, and have gone to war alongside us.

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I've never voted for Obama. What exactly would Romney have done different in regards to Iraq or Benghazi for that matter?

 

and Qatar provided the terrorists, including al queda, for the war in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and now Iraq.

 

Do you have any evidence that the Iraqi government has backed down from their proviso on any new SOFA's? Should we illegally invade Iraq against the will of its government?