Posted on 06/13/2014 11:38:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday said the “nation deserves better answers” from President Obama on how to handle the deteriorating security situation in Iraq.
The president announced he is still considering options for how to best deal with extremist groups marching their way across the country to Baghdad. He insisted that the U.S. would not be dragged back into an armed conflict and that the Iraqi government must step up to meet the security challenge.
“Today was another example of him pushing responsibility for his foreign policy failures off on everyone but himself,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said in a statement.
He called on the president to put out a “comprehensive strategy for Iraq and the Middle East, one that tells our military men and women that their blood, sweat and tears over the past decade weren’t in vain.”
The Oklahoma lawmaker said the U.S. should provide logistics, training, intelligence and foreign military sales to the Iraqi government to stop the al-Qaeda linked group.
Inhofe was one of several lawmakers who received a classified briefing on Thursday from administration officials about developments on the ground in Iraq. While all who attended the confidential session came out agreeing the U.S. should not commit boots on the ground, they split over whether the president should authorize airstrikes.
For his part, Inhofe said it was “too early” to go forward with aerial attacks.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) also voiced displeasure with the president’s announcement.
“Both Congress and the Pentagon have been warning the White House about the worsening situation in Iraq, but for months it has done almost nothing,” he said in a statement. “It’s long past time for the president to lay out a plan for how we can reverse the momentum and spread of terrorism in Iraq and a region that is critical to U.S. national interests.”
Impeach the traitor!!
And besides................................Bush's fault!
We’re soon going to see the severed heads of Americans, and Westerners.
Amen...The sooner the better.
“He insisted that the U.S. would not be dragged back into an armed conflict”
Then Iraq is lost. And every casualty therein for 12 years was for naught.
IMPEACH!
“It’s long past time for the president to lay out a plan for how we can reverse the momentum and spread of terrorism in Iraq”
He has a plan.
It’s obvious.
“Let the violent extremists win. Give them Egypt, Iraq, etc. Restore the Caliphate.”
Exactly...He said he’d stand with them and he’s fulfilling that promise.
We did provide logistics and training to the Iraq military, and either sold or gave them billions of dollars in weapons. And for all that they folded like a cheap suit because al-Maliki chose his military leaders based on loyalty and not ability. How was the U.S. supposed to prevent that?
With a _Resident not sympathetic to muslim terrorists, really pretty simple.
Why should Obastard do any thing; his side is wining.
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