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
POS!!!
Lying black maggot!
capitalism utilize its old and well tested weapon (religious fascism) to make it the instrument that destroys those popular uprisings and throw it off track and destroy any hope or ambition of it and even use it to seize power as a substitute for traditional nationalism and patriotism fascists, which decayed aging and corruption, The criminal entity named (ISIS) is nothing but reproduction of every horror of the Nazi practiced from ethnic cleansing to genocide, that Anti-Humanity entity , which was used to destroy the popular revolution of the Syrians and eliminate any hope of a Popular revolutionary movment in Iraq, Is now destroying the people of the region themselves, materially and morally through massacres and genocide , Unleashing unbelievable horror against Kurds, Christians , Yazidis and all ethnic and religious minorities in the region as much overpowers the Sunni Arab majority devastating them and subjecting them to the diabolical vision of ISIS.
Obama is scum period! A direct threat to our national security and the worlds as well… The U.S.A. has been on hiatus for the past 6 years.. Congrats community fraudster organizer!
Of course it is because HE IS NEVER AT FAULT FOR ANYTHING!
useless as wings on a frog.
Run for President and see if you can do any better.
Liar
Question does any one know what for this President got The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 ????
“Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics.”
What a joke ! He barely had stepped his food in the WH and gets a recognition like this ? Look what his international diplomacy has inflicted worldwide.
he must be dipping snuf—looks like it