I know it's old but so is the truth!
Posted on 02/14/2010 1:34:14 PM PST by tobyhill
When Vice-President Joe Biden says the Iraq war may turn out to be one of President Barack Obama's greatest achievements, Dick Cheney wants credit where he says it's due: the Bush administration.
“If they're going to take credit for it, fair enough, for what they've done while they're there,” Mr. Cheney said Sunday. “But it ought to go with a healthy dose of 'thank you, George Bush' up front and a recognition that some of their early recommendations, with respect to prosecuting that war, were just dead wrong.”
Obama opposed the war in 2003 and, as an Illinois senator, the troop increase ordered in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Then-Delaware Sen. Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq but later declared the war against U.S. interests and opposed the troop surge, which he once called “a failure.”
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Something tells me if Cheney had the opportunity, he’d give Biden the same advice he gave to Sen Patrick Leahy a few years back.
I know it's old but so is the truth!
Someone should!
When talking with Larry King, Joe Biden said, “I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government”.
Biden did not mention the numerous obstacles overcome for these achievements. The Democratic party, mainstream media, and liberal intellectuals always proclaimed Iraq a “quagmire”, and demanded immediate U.S. withdrawal. Biden promoted Iraq disunion into three separate countries. When Lt. General Petraeus appeared for Senate confirmation this Princeton PhD provided a splendid dissertation for using classic counterinsurgency tactics to win in Iraq. Hillary Clinton said listening to him required “suspension of disbelief”, and proceeded to present her own perspective for a failed and hopeless mission.
Barrack Obama’s last noteworthy Iraq involvement occurred in July 2007 when he, Biden, Clinton, etal co-sponsored the Levin-Reed Amendment requiring most troops leave by April 2008. The amendment was defeated and the “Al Anbar Awakening” began in 2007. Then throughout 2008, the Iraqi people and leaders experienced deliverance from lives dominated by assassins stalking them and their families. The Iraqis witnessed ascendance of their national institutions in providing personal and material security.
Before Obama became president, the Status of Forces Agreement, between the U.S. and Iraq, provided the blueprint for implementing U.N. principles and U.S. withdrawal.
Obama’s administration had no part in Iraq successes.
Don't hold your breath though...
Bottom line.
And I say again.....THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!!!!
(Wonderful and meaningful photo, onyx. THANK you!)
The main thing you jettisoned was that WHITE FLAG you and Barack were waving in front of an enemy!
The photo is from LUVW’s page. I looked on your page, too.
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(Don't worry. :)
Saddam was long ago dead before Barry had the opportunity to bow to him as POTUS.
Any person that tells someone in a wheel chair named Chuck to stand up should learn to keep his mouth shut...
Okay, I bite. What did Cheney say to Leaping Leahy?
I can't repost it word for word...
But the first word was "Go"...
The last word was "yourself"...
And the middle word rhymes with buck, cluck, duck, huck, juck, luck, muck, puck, suck, and tuck.
Just sayin'....
Told him to take a leap of a cliff in certain words.
What does everyone think will happen to Iraq in 2020?
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