"We are systematically eliminating isis hi command"--top US General
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Hail to the Chief!
Islamic State wouldn't control the second largest city in Iraq if the dumbass jumbo eared Kenyan had listened to knowledgeable folks about the consequence of complete troop withdrawal
Did he lead this raid too? He's so brave.
Just about everything in this post is a lie.The SOF agreement was agreed to by Bush for 2011. Once Obama saw the need for an extension he attempted to negotiate new one. This attempt failed and was always going to fail as the Iraqi parliament and PM Malki wanted US troops gone. We had no choice but to leave at that point.
Now, what should Obama have done? If Nixon (our last great president) was in office he and Kissinger would have made sure Maliki was a dead man before 2011 and had half the parliament bribed. But we don't do those things anymore. Obama is to soft and Bush was too stupid.
Mega,
At least he's not so gd'd stupid that he's sending a lot of those who are brave to die in a foreign land for no good reason. That's one hell of an improvement over the last guy in office.
And I say that as someone who remembers that you were one of the few on this board who was even willing to concede that there were good arguments for not engaging in invading Iraq.
Medic007,
Explain to me how the President of the USA can simply unilaterally insert a large force of US military forces into a sovereign country without their permission? (Without violating any number of International Law principles.) Do you have a memory so short that you have forgotten that Malaki refused our offers of assistance to help prevent the takeover of Mosul?
Does your memory not also extend to the absolute and utter failure of our misguided escapades in that country for over a decade prior? How many more thousands of US dead do you think we should commit to the region? Do you think such an expansion of force (in the numbers required to do what you are suggesting) would have lead to no blow-back or unintended consequences?
Naw, they get motivated by videos.I fear this will only give them more resolve to destroy us. Not good. This will create more terrorists. They need jobs.
They're just like cockroaches. When one dies several more immediately take its place.There was a new number 2 minutes after this SOB was killed.
Exactly, big freaking deal the number two guy was taken out. They're spreading all over the globe and Obama is being patted on the back for killing one guy.There was a new number 2 minutes after this SOB was killed.
They are his brothers. If he kills too many he will become a homeless orphan.Exactly, big freaking deal the number two guy was taken out. They're spreading all over the globe and Obama is being patted on the back for killing one guy.
hwood, comparing him to Bush and the Iraq war is a very low bar for calling something successful.
I think it's clear my point in this thread isn't about Obama, it's about the OP's pathetic idolization of a shitty politician and his vaguely heil hittleresque salute he reflexively gives him every time he manages not to shit the bed on something.
I They need jobs.
Mega,
At least he's not so gd'd stupid that he's sending a lot of those who are brave to die in a foreign land for no good reason. That's one hell of an improvement over the last guy in office.
And I say that as someone who remembers that you were one of the few on this board who was even willing to concede that there were good arguments for not engaging in invading Iraq.
Medic007,
Explain to me how the President of the USA can simply unilaterally insert a large force of US military forces into a sovereign country without their permission? (Without violating any number of International Law principles.) Do you have a memory so short that you have forgotten that Malaki refused our offers of assistance to help prevent the takeover of Mosul?
Does your memory not also extend to the absolute and utter failure of our misguided escapades in that country for over a decade prior? How many more thousands of US dead do you think we should commit to the region? Do you think such an expansion of force (in the numbers required to do what you are suggesting) would have lead to no blow-back or unintended consequences?