Posted on 08/03/2010 2:26:39 AM PDT by Scanian
One president gave his pre mature "Mission Accomplished" speech about Iraq on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Now another has given his own version as part of a Chicago-ward-politics sales pitch to disabled veterans.
The difference is that the first guy was sincere.
President Obama's pork-barrel speech to the Disabled Veterans of America yesterday (if you want to help our vets, shut up and do it) would have drawn a blush from those Soviet propagandists who cropped purged Politburo members from Stalin-era photographs.
Ignoring his own opposition to the liberation of Iraq, supporting our troops and the surge, Obama spoke as if all's well in Baghdad -- thanks to him.
As part of his weird victory lap, the president rightfully praised the way "our troops adapted and adjusted" to the insurgency in Iraq, then stressed that 90,000 service members have come home during his administration.
He preened that we'll meet his Aug. 31 deadline to transition "from combat to supporting and training Iraqi security forces" and reaffirmed that we'll remove the last of our troops in 2012. But the portion of yesterday's speech that focused on Iraq left out . . . Iraq.
While that country has passed its military crisis, it's now in political turmoil -- from which our government has utterly disengaged. We won that war, but we still can lose the peace. Obama shunned the fact that, almost half a year after its last national election, Iraq doesn't have a new government. Determined to abandon "Bush's war," Obama's been AWOL in Baghdad.
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Iraq was never conquered, so it can’t be lost.
I don’t think we’ve fought to win since WWII.
Obama absolutely wanted a disaster in Iraq and voted against the surge in order to get one-on Bush's watch. But Bush left Iraq in pretty good shape for him and he knows that people know it.
That was rather “insensitive” of Halsey. I’ll be he didn’t even get a medal for courageous restraint.
According to the SOFA agreement (signed by the Bush Admin on 17 Nov 2008) the last troops will be out of the country by 31 Dec 2011, not 2012.
The Iraq War was a mistake. The Iraqi Sunnis, under Saddam, had the Shiites pinned down and the Iranians boxed in (somewhat). And we had the Sunnis pinned down under our sanctions and overflights.
Now the Iranians are unleased, the Shiites are running wild and America has fallen to a communist regime... all as a result of a misguided decision to launch this war.
Anything Obama says is diametrically opposed to what he has done and is going to do. It seems he has a total disconnect from reality.
I believe it was also Admiral Halsey who said that when we’re finished, the only place they’ll be speaking Japanese is in hell.
We did under McArthur... but then a friggin’ dim president ****ed that up too.
LLS
A lie is a lie, no matter how many times it gets repeated. Shame on you Ralph.
He just thinks the public is too dumb to notice the contradictions and the media is too corrupt to point them out.
True.
In addition, a mission is not a war.
Excellent analysis.
The enemy nations are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
That's a meaningless claim of fulfilling a promise. You can always stop patrolling, stop military action. It's called surrender. hussein is going to surrender Iraq back to the forces of mayhem. We lost in Iraq the moment hussein was elected.
General Giap said, “this is where I came in.”
Ditto.
Our country is run by fools.
The key to understanding Iraq is the simple and quite obvious observation is that Iraq doesn't really exist - it is a purely jury-rigged political construct cobbled together by the British imperialists after WWI for the express purpose of creating a disharmonious state that would be easier to dominate. Iraq represents no national identity. There is no such thing as an "Iraqi." There are Sunnis, and Shiites, and Kurds and Turkomens and Chaldeans.
But there are no Iraqis.
Only a drooling idiot could have ever thought otherwise.
We can't build a new "Iraq." We might as well try to make a decent country out of, say, Afghanistan, which is made up of warring Pashtuns and Tajiks and Uzbeks and so forth.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. We are trying to build a new Afghanistan. Hahahahaha!!! Silly me. I seem to have a hard time accepting that our country is run by morons.
losing wars is what buys you Street Cred within the modern Democrat Party
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