JQPublic1
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Obama was warned by military experts about pulling out all the troops without leaving a residual force. He did it anyway to keep a political promise in election year. Obama is responsible for ISIS, period.Mighty harsh on Mr. Chamberlain whose intentions were good....
Actually it worked pretty well for GW. His surge in 2007 pretty much wrecked Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They actually had free and open elections there and things would look alot different there today had Obama not undone everything those brave soldiers fought and died for. Bush was by no means fighting a war the way it should have been, thanks to the liberal pacifist meddling and the media turning the public sour. But he was way more a Commander in Chief this this sniveling pussy we have now.
It's all about fiction to you, isn't it...
I suggest you avert your eyes...
But just because Official Washington embraces a narrative doesn’t make it true. Bush’s “surge” was, in reality, a dismal — an unconscionable — failure. It did not achieve its ostensible aim — the rationale Bush eventually decided to give it — namely, to buy time for Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiites to reconcile.
Rather, it did just the opposite, greatly exacerbating antagonisms between them. That result was clearly predicted before the “surge” by none other than Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, top U.S. military leaders, and even the Washington Establishment-heavy Iraq Study Group, all of which were pressing for less — not more — military involvement.
In one very important sense, however, the “surge” into Iraq was wildly successful in achieving what was almost certainly its primary aim. It bought President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a “decent interval” so they could leave office without an explicit military defeat sullying their legacy – and for the “acceptable” price of “only” 1,000 more U.S. dead.
Resurgence of the Surge Myth Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community
Hell, Obama did what the American people wanted him to do: stop spending billions on two wars. Remember, our economy was deplorable back then and the war machine had to be wound down. Can you imagine what the national debt would look like today if we hadn't pulled out of IRAQ?
Nope. Obama did what the left wanted, not the American people. He kept his promise and people are being slaughtered. Nice work.
I don't see how you can separate the so-called "left" from the American people. They are the American people too. Frankly, though, I am doubtful that the "left" or "right" monikers really apply to people as rigidly as you posit. If that were the case, one party would have all the power all the time.
People are being killed in that region because BOOSH, killed the great stabilizer, Saddam Hussein under the false pretense of his alleged WMDs. Obama did the right thing and let those people decide their own fate. Two unfunded wars started by BOOSH on top of his extended tax cuts for the rich was far more destructive to our economy than you want to admit. Obama made the promise in light of that and kept it. He was elected again as a result by the American people.