Posted on 04/28/2016 6:30:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
In an unannounced visit shrouded in secrecy, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. came to Iraq on Thursday for the first time in almost five years, in the hopes that he can help a weak prime minister and bolster the military campaign against the Islamic State.
But the intense security concerns and the clandestine nature of the trip demonstrated the challenges....
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I agree!
First thing that I thought when I saw the headline.
With these people, it’s all about the OPTICS.
Someone wants Biden to look good.
Pull back on Clinton?
Are you kidding?
You don’t let up on a monster like her until it’s over, done, finished for good.
Did Jumpin Joe take his shotgun?
I would like to comment on this fiasco. First Iraq is in total shambles governmentally. They don’t even have a defense minister. There “army” is usurped by Shia Sadr army and hamas as well as Iranian ground generals.
This visit is about Mosul. After the huge mess in Ramadi where the entire Iraqi general staff was blown up in one day at the football stadium and Ramadi was left by ISIS with not one building left standing, Mosul is next ( in “June”) and is a city of 600,000 civilians and close to 30,000 fighters . Iraq is no match because they don’t have a clue how to fight.
Obama sees this as a horrible legacy of leadership and sees Trump coming to take over at which time we will get these incompetent Iraqis out of the way and kill all isis bastards and break their stuff. There will be “collateral” damage but that’s what you get is you accept that pagan oppression.
Biden is going why? Pump up the worthless Iraqis? After the election,we will take care of this and then leave, just like DJT said in his excellent foreign Policy speech yesterday. Kill them all and get the hell out— No nation building EVER AGAIN!! What a waste of lives and blood these people were.
did he bring his double barrel shotgun with him?
The Hillary supporters I know aren’t interested in facts—hostile to them.
Glass ceiling, Bad Bill, million mile SOS, her turn...
Where’s Biden the Brilliant been for seven years? If his boss wasn’t up to the job in Iraq (if?), Biden could have given him some obvious tips.
he is kicking himself knowing he could have walked away with the primary nod.
instead, the WORST nominee in the history of nominees EVERYWHERE is running :)
babbling about equal pay for women as if that is even (if it were true) in the top 1000 of what people are concerned about)
filthy backwoods piece of @#@#$ dyke.
I love FR. You get to ACTUALLY SAY what you’re thinking, unlike the rest of the time when you’d be thrown in jail or attacked by a mob :)
Maybe Obama’s reached the point in his presidency timeline where he has to start cleaning up “loose ends”, and is working to get Biden... er.... “disappeared”.
I really really appreciate that sentiment. Except it IGNORES history. Getting out and not engaging was what gave us 9-11. We walked away from Afghanistan after the Russians were booted and the radicals gave rise to Al Qaeda.
Carter gave up in Iran and we got the Ayatollah.
I don't want another one of those.
I think there is a REAL solution that lies somewhere between so-called nation building and leaving completely.
The solution is what we did with Egypt and with Jordan and with Iran in the 50s, etc.: we installed or assisted STRONG MEN who kept the LUNATICS in jail.
Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, the Shah, King Hussein of Jordan, etc....all of these guys were ALLIES of the United States and while there WERE some apparent abuses (they weren't Constitutional Republics), there also wasn't any toleration of radical Islamic terrorism.
In those days, the lunatics were locked up. And the world was much more peaceful.
I think our mistake in Iraq wasn't replacing Saddam with a strong-man government.
otherwise, we're just kicking the can down the road to another 9-11. Or worse.
You don’t let up on a monster like her until it’s over, done, finished for good.
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and you lose elections. But what the hell...
Trying to look like GW with secret missions to Iraq. Fail. But makes him look presidential when Hillary is indicted and he has to jump into the DNC convention and save the party. “I’m not joking” <\sarc>
I don’t give a rats behind about the middle east— Not one bit of care. Take their oil and leave!! Close our borders and keep these murdering bastard from entering our country and NUKE UP!!
> and you lose elections
an entirely speculative and unsupported assertion
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