Galt's Gulch

It's all Bush's fault!

Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 9 years, 8 months ago to Politics
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From the article:

Obama also forcefully rejected a question from a report asking whether he regrets pulling U.S. ground forces out of Iraq...

“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision,” Obama said.

Um, didn't our Dear Leader campaign on pulling all US forces out of Iraq... that the war was not there, but in Afghanistan? But perhaps my memory is faulty. <ahem>
SOURCE URL: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/obama-iraq-timetable-airstrikes-109878.html

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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 8 months ago
    Glad he was able to take time for this before he goes on vacation. I would hate for world events to get in the way of his ME time.
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    • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 8 months ago
      No doubt! How long would a new CEO last in a failing corporation if he took half as much time off as Obama has? My guess is 3 months, 6 months tops until he or she was replaced. We have a president that came into office during really tough conditions and to not be working 18 hour days 7 days a week until the problem was solved is criminal IMHO. When the going gets tough, the tough get going is not this presidents motto. Makes me ask one more time, how in the world did this guy get re-elected when he should have been fire 6 months in?
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 8 months ago
    He's not saying it's Bush's fault. He's saying the Iraqi gov't didn't invite us. Is that true through? It doesn't ring true. I thought the story was the US thought the recognized gov't of Iraq was too sectarian, so US didn't want to continue a large presence there.
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    • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 8 months ago
      The problem I had Circuit was that he mentioned the previous administration. It was up to his administration to negotiate the status of forces agreement. He didn't get it done. If the Iraqi government didn't want us there it had nothing to do with Bush. Why bring him up?
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 8 months ago
        You're right. It's subtle. He said "the previous administration" turned the country over to a gov't, which is a tacit way of saying he doesn't take responsibility for the nature of that gov't. Maybe he's trying to underscore that the gov't is not his puppet, and if the gov't is a puppet gov't it's not his puppet.
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        • Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 9 years, 8 months ago
          There is nothing subtle about our Dear Leader if you understand his communication style. It is to foist others under the wheels of the carriage, and yet The One remains an innocent bystander.
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          • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 8 months ago
            "There is nothing subtle about our Dear Leader if you understand his communication style. It is to foist others under the wheels of the carriage, and yet The One remains an innocent bystander."
            This is just political nonsense. This stuff sometimes comes into the engineering world, and I won't have anything to do with it there. I've never been involved in public policy or met President Obama, but I would be completely shocked to find out he constantly tricking people more than the average politician.
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            • Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 9 years, 8 months ago
              You said his response was subtle. I'm simply responding that it isn't subtle if you have a political ear. If you do not believe my premise, can you tell me what president has blamed his predecessor more than The One? It has been a recurrent theme to blame Bush... or to say he "just read it in the paper today, so I'm just as surprised as you..." etc. This represents an abdication of leadership and responsibility that has very real consequences that we are seeing around the world, not political nonsense.
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