After spending years bragging about the removal of troops from Iraq, Obama suddenly changed his narrative after ISIS has ripped through the country, started beheading Christian children and is promising to “raise the flag of Allah at the White House”:
It´s all George Bush´s fault.
“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Obama stated, right before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
Wait…what? Does he not think we will remember all the touting he´s done about taking troops out of the country and how it was his big campaign promise back in 2008? Now suddenly it ´wasn’t his decision´.
What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Mr. Obama told reporters just before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. “So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq. So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.”
Mr. Obama’s new take on the 2011 troop withdrawal quickly came under fire from a number of political pundits who pointed out the irony of a president moving away, at least in part, from his signature foreign policy achievement.
Ron Fournier of the National Journal tweeted that the president is distancing himself from his own record.
“A promise he kept, and he’s running from it?” he said.
James Taranto, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and editor of OpinionJournal.com, said Mr. Obama apparently is no longer claiming credit for the removal of American forces, something that, until now, he frequently boasted about.
“Obama is not only disclaiming responsibility for the troop pullout but blaming it on George W. Bush,” he wrote Monday.
Indeed, Mr. Obama’s most recent description of the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal differs greatly from how he portrayed it in 2012, when he was running for re-election against Republican Mitt Romney.
While it’s true the administration did support keeping a small residual force in Iraq, Mr. Obama frequently took credit for fully ending American involvement in Iraq and for leaving no U.S. boots on the ground in that country.
In fact, during one October 2012 debate with Mr. Romney, the president seemed to deny that he supported a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government, a deal that would have formally allowed American troops to remain in Iraq and would have protected them from prosecution in Iraqi courts.
When Mr. Romney said he, like Mr. Obama, believed such an agreement should have been worked out, the president said “that’s not true” and went on to decry the presence of any American forces in Iraq.
“What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East. You’ve got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean. Now, you just gave a speech a few weeks ago in which you said we should still have troops in Iraq,” he told Mr. Romney. “That is not a recipe for making sure that we are taking advantage of the opportunities and meeting the challenges of the Middle East.”
Source: washingtontimes.com
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin
Did anyone think would’t.blame Mr.Bush? He will not take the blame for anything he thinks he is a King and can’t do anything wrong.
Another whopper just told.
And people will believe him because they, like him, are brainless zombies
Wow. Bush and Cheney’s decision to invade Iraq was the # 1 most stupid action this Country has ever done. Obama was not for it when he was a Senator. How anybody can blame him for this is asinine. Let’s look at Israel and the Palestinians. How long have they been fighting ? Will they ever stop killing each other ? Iraq is the same thing. Obama is smart enough to see without a Iraq leader who is willing to share in the wealth and prosperity of the land there is no solution to Iraq. Bush – Cheney should have seen this. Do you think after invading Iraq the people there like us ?? Not a chance. Is this even fixable ? Who knows ? Bush – Cheney have created a problem that will be on the desk of the next 10 Presidents. How much more can we spend on there stupidity ? You just cannot blame Obama for this disaster. Saddam ran that Country with a Iron Fist because he had to. The Iraq invasion was the worst decision ever made by a President in history. A Republican. Fact.
Oh but of course…..I’m so sick of him blaming everything on everyone else….grow up and take some responsibility….what’s that teaching your kids……
He needs to Man up oops he;s not a Man He;s a Baby wineing
Your job was to see what was coming in the future, listen to your military and act, that is what you should have done, you did not. Whether Bush was right or wrong, it was passed onto you.
Pray for this man he is clueless and has his own agenda funded by backers. He’s just a puppet…
Of Course it Is Bozo, You Never do anything Wrong, Oh Wait YOU NEVER DO ANYTHING but cause problems.
Hey Barry,do you realize how stupid you look blaming everything on Bush it was you that started the mess when Bush was still in office you and Ted k are responsiable for the said state of nation and world