Even if it’s not his fault, it’s his responsibility.
What has he done with that responsibility?
Folks, I’m amazed if people don’t understand that because of their backgrounds, Obama, Kerry and Hagel, all WANT to lose in Iraq.
That is what they insisted on in Vietnam. Liberals are sick.
*8Is the violence in Iraq Obama’s fault? **
Yes
You have to wonder who is most responsible for Iraq being a soft shell of a target. After all of the external support, the Syrian terrorist/rebels couldn’t displace Assad—but just rolled all over the US trained and financed Iraqi army.
Was it Bush’s fault for getting us there in the first place? Or Obama’s for withdrawing and claiming victory? Or Maliki’s for running an incompetent government and not working with the US?
Or was Iraq predestined to split along the three lines of a new Kurdistan, a Sunni middle, and a Irani/Shiite dominated southeast?
Only half his fault. The white half.
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Seems as tho’ there’s a bunch of ignorant officials involved in this debacle...Who is going to stand up and take responsibility? Certainly not the officer quoted at the end of this excerpt!!! I can’t believe anyone with any smarts could even make a statement like that. Googling doesn’t bring up any current info on him.
The US meanwhile has closed Camp Bucca, once its largest prison in Iraq. The Pentagon says it’s transferred Bucca’s remaining 180 prisoners to two jails near Baghdad. US Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth King said the prison’s closure comes as part of the US-Iraq security deal.
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth King: “As a show of progress for the security agreement and moving forward the government of Iraq, we’re going to put the theater internment facility as a piece of history. And we’re going to — it will be history, and we’ll move forward from here and progress.”
What is his fault is the wiping away of all the gains our military made in Iraq, and the role our withdrawal from the region played in the establishment of a rump Islamic state.
We'll still be paying for that withdrawal fifty years from now.
Yes. We’ve been cyber-screaming about this for a few years on FR. The arms and training Obama is giving to the opposition to Assad in Syria are in ISIS’s control. It would be worse, far worse, if they were to topple Assad.
The only “fault” of Bush is that when we had everything in the world in Iraq, he should have taken out Syria as well and done the hard work. Also should have pressured the hell out of Iran and maybe reduced their nuke and other capabilities.
But yes, if Obama wasn’t a cowardly leftist who can’t consider helping Iraq, none of this would have been necessary. He easily could have taken lots of actions to prevent this, from a continued US presence, to effective action in Syria.
And how about even having a clue that this was about to happen?
yes
Maybe a large city newspaper will conduct such a poll and a freeper will see it and post a link to it here. I for one would like to see the results
Exactly, Obama doesn’t care and likely never saw the US progress there as a “gain” anyway. He obviously doesn’t give a damn about the soldiers.
Obama has had, what, 172 golf days since he took office?
Iraq is falling apart, and Obama is so concerned that he goes to a high school graduation and tells everyone how bad the Republicans are.
Golf and gab......that’s what you get from Obama.
Of course it is.
Many of us pointed out then the inevitability of what would come next after his capitulation. To monsters like Øbozo it’s a game but normal people recognize that lives are at stake.
My only regret is that the stench of corruption and failure won’t stick to him like a swim on a cesspool. He should be forced to carry it with him the rest of his miserable existence.
Will Obama repeat this mess in Afghanistan?
Yes
Things have to be viewed from the time Barry took office.
It doesn’t matter who got us into Iraq or why. Barry’s decisions should be evaluated based on the situation in front of him, on Jan 20, 2009....which was a fairly stable Iraq, with an army being trained, elections being held, etc.
Now, as a result of Barry’s decision to sprint out of there, the streets are lined with beheaded Iraqi soldiers, and in the span of a week Iraq is being converted into the world’s largest and most well financed terrorist state in the history of human kind.
This is Barry’s fault.
There’s also another litmus test. Are the airwaves filled with media talking heads covering the disaster in Iraq? Not really. That means that the media intuitively knows it can’t be blamed on Bush.