Bush's Iraq failure

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Any of the current Repub candidates for President NOT admit that war of choice was a disaster?
 
Any of the current Repub candidates for President NOT admit that war of choice was a disaster?
Obama said it wasn't before he screwed the pooch...
FLASHBACK Obama We re Leaving Behind a Sovereign Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq CNS News


(CNSNews.com) - When President Barack Obama removed the last U.S. forces from Iraq in December 2011, he announced that—as he had planned—the U.S. was leaving behind a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government.”

It was a "moment of success," he said.

On Feb. 27, 2009, a little more than a month after his first inauguration, Obama gave a speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina that the White House entitled, “Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq.”

Obama said then that his strategy was based on the “achievable goal” of a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” Iraq--and that he intended to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, as had been envisioned in the Status of Forces agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration.


“Today, I can announce that our review is complete, and that the United States will pursue a new strategy to end the war in Iraq through a transition to full Iraqi responsibility,” said Obama. “This strategy is grounded in a clear and achievable goal shared by the Iraqi people and the American people: an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant. To achieve that goal, we will work to promote an Iraqi government that is just, representative, and accountable, and that provides neither support nor safe-haven to terrorists.”

“And under the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government, I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011,” said Obama. “We will complete this transition to Iraqi responsibility, and we will bring our troops home with the honor that they have earned.”

Almost three years later, on Dec. 14, 2011, when he was removing the last U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama gave a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Here he said his strategy based on building a sovereign, stable, self-reliant Iraq had succeeded.
 
Any of the current Repub candidates for President NOT admit that war of choice was a disaster?
Obama said it wasn't before he screwed the pooch...
FLASHBACK Obama We re Leaving Behind a Sovereign Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq CNS News


(CNSNews.com) - When President Barack Obama removed the last U.S. forces from Iraq in December 2011, he announced that—as he had planned—the U.S. was leaving behind a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government.”

It was a "moment of success," he said.

On Feb. 27, 2009, a little more than a month after his first inauguration, Obama gave a speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina that the White House entitled, “Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq.”

Obama said then that his strategy was based on the “achievable goal” of a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” Iraq--and that he intended to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, as had been envisioned in the Status of Forces agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration.


“Today, I can announce that our review is complete, and that the United States will pursue a new strategy to end the war in Iraq through a transition to full Iraqi responsibility,” said Obama. “This strategy is grounded in a clear and achievable goal shared by the Iraqi people and the American people: an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant. To achieve that goal, we will work to promote an Iraqi government that is just, representative, and accountable, and that provides neither support nor safe-haven to terrorists.”

“And under the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government, I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011,” said Obama. “We will complete this transition to Iraqi responsibility, and we will bring our troops home with the honor that they have earned.”

Almost three years later, on Dec. 14, 2011, when he was removing the last U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama gave a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Here he said his strategy based on building a sovereign, stable, self-reliant Iraq had succeeded.
Thank GOD he got us the fuck out of that shithole.
 
CNS News? Whats that? You people all have to be getting your links from the same place like Drudge amiright?
 
CNS News? Whats that? You people all have to be getting your links from the same place like Drudge amiright?
Barack Obama declares Iraq war a success US news The Guardian

Obama's studiously avoided declaring victory or the hubris of his predecessor, George Bush, who paraded under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" just as the worst of the killing in Iraq was about to begin. But the president said that the US has left Iraq better than it found it.

"Iraq's not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement," he said.

Flashback Obama We re Leaving Behind A Sovereign Stable And Self-Reliant Iraq - YouTube
 
Every major military adventure in the 20th century started during a democrat administration. WW1 was a disaster, our negligence at the beginning (we lost an entire Army in the Philippines) turned WW2 into a disaster, Korea was a disaster, Vietnam was a disaster. Under Bush's leadership the U.S. Military went farther, faster and took more real estate with less casualties than any other conflict of it's type. Democrats were desperate to turn it into a disaster even after they authorized the mission and they undermined the Military every step of the way. Iraq was a military success but the liberal narrative issued to the ignorant progs was that it was a failure because the Obama administration abandoned the country and the whole middle east for that matter.
 
Who remembers when Joe Biden said this about Iraq?


Oh yeah before I forget,
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH.
 
Any of the current Repub candidates for President NOT admit that war of choice was a disaster?
The war itself was a brilliant and quick victory.

The minute we found Saddam, we should have put a bullet in his brain, and then just walked away.

No rebuilding... no nation-building... no counter-insurgency... just walk away, and let 'em sort through the smoking ruins.

Much cheaper that way.

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Still... it was a frigging mistake of grotesquely large proportions.
 
Any of the current Repub candidates for President NOT admit that war of choice was a disaster?
The ultra-low number of US deaths was unprecidented in a time of war.

More Americans died in one day of FDRs war.
 
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Bill Clinton bombed a defenseless European country into the stone age to deflect attention from his sexual perversion. We still have a military presence in Bosnia and tensions between the age old enemies haven't changed. There was no congressional approval for the bombing of Yugoslavia and no U.N. mandate and yet the ignorant progs are angry that congress approved Bush's plan to enforce U.N. sanctions in Iraq and the military operation was a success.
 
Bill Clinton bombed a defenseless European country into the stone age to deflect attention from his sexual perversion. We still have a military presence in Bosnia and tensions between the age old enemies haven't changed. There was no congressional approval for the bombing of Yugoslavia and no U.N. mandate and yet the ignorant progs are angry that congress approved Bush's plan to enforce U.N. sanctions in Iraq and the military operation was a success.
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We're not supposed to remember anything further back than the last season of American Idol
 

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