Posted on 07/05/2010 11:45:22 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden said after a three-day trip to Baghdad that the American people will see President Barack Obama’s Iraq policy as a success when the “combat mission” ends on schedule Aug. 31. Biden said the administration “will be able to point to it and say, ‘We told you what we’re going to do, and we did it.’”
“I think America wins,” Biden told POLITICO in an end-of-trip interview at the ambassador’s residence in the sprawling U.S. Embassy complex. “I sound corny, but I think America gets credit here in the region. And I think everybody gets credit, from George Bush to [President Obama].
“I think Americans will recognize that there aren’t body counts ... that they got 95,000 people home. That will be noticeable that they’re home."
The chief purpose of Biden’s visit was to prod Iraqi politicians to form a government and end a four-month stalemate that followed parliamentary elections. The vice president said security in the country “doesn’t really relate to whether there’s a government formed or not.”
“The government that is the interim government now — a little like our interregnum period between November and January — is actually functioning in terms of security,” he said. “I am hopeful — I am confident — that in the relatively near term, they’re going to be able to work out an agreement on ... the new government.”
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But, but, Mr. Biden...it was an ‘illegal’ war wasn’t it? That’s what your boss and his friends said, didn’t they? Well, Mr. Vice President, what do you have to say now about it? Then he himself, wanted to divide the country up like a pie; whether the Iraqis wanted that or not! Good grief!
Now they want to claim credit for what they claimed was an ‘illegal’ war! grumble, grumble..
when the “combat mission” ends on schedule Aug. 31”
We need a pool on how long it will be before Iraq reverts after Aug. 32.
Don't ever even suggest that I would take away from our troops or the ISF.
Read things in their contexts before attempting to correct me.
For all intents and purposes, the combat mission really ended last summer.
And after September 1, troops will still be here. Just not as many as in the past.
Even after December 31, 2011, the U.S. will maintain a presence here, both military and diplomatic.
Sick beyond belief.
They hinder the war effort for years, then take credit for the war actually being won by others prior to taking office.
Barry inheirted the success Joe!
Even after December 31, 2011, the U.S. will maintain a presence here, both military and diplomatic.”
Exactly. For U.S. to “win” the Iraq war on terror, we have to stay in Iraq.
Whaddaya wanna bet that if things go bad after we leave, it will suddenly revert to “Bush’s Failed War in Iraq”....?
Hopefully we won’t see a repeat of that helicopter scene but this time on the roof of the Baghdad US Embassy.
Ya think the Muslims can handle democracy?
We're still in Japan and Germany...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Obama calls for immediate withdrawal from Iraq
Associated Press
CLINTON, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.
“Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was,” Obama said in excerpts of the speech provided to The Associated Press.
“The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year — now,” the Illinois senator says.
I’ll give it until Aug. 35.
I insist you stop confusing them with such inflamatory propaganda........
He sees pixies and stuff like that too.
LLS
LLS
Now that the U.S. has clearly won this thing, I still get the gloom-and-doom crowd.
I guess there are some who are (not so) secretly bummed out that we triumphed in this one?
Go figger. ;-)
Hark! What was that sound outside?
Why, it was silence!
:-)
Come back and I shall taunt you again! *Apologizing to Monty Python*
You’re a statist. :-P
Did Harry Weed get the memo?
Now, we hear from Sgt. Smart Ass about his Captain Kick Ass.
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