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Obama Is Sending 275 US Troops To Iraq

Maenad said:
Possibly. I have to leave room in my mind for at least the possibility that Obama wants this.
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Uggggh. That gives him far too much credit. He wants to golf, go on vacation, go to fund raisers, and pretend he is the best thing to happen to the planet since sliced bread and teleprompters.
 
VanceMack said:
Uggggh. That gives him far too much credit. He wants to golf, go on vacation, go to fund raisers, and pretend he is the best thing to happen to the planet since sliced bread and teleprompters.
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Point taken.
 
NIMBY said:
That was a quick response--certainly having nothing to do with what I said--
four congressional leaders--Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, McConnell--to meet with the President tomorrow--did you get that part--

For one who continually posts that Obama has been President 6 years,
try 5 years and not quite 5 months, since you're a stickler for those who make a mistake with the quote button--

for one who continually posts that it's all on Obama, don't bother with the world being gray versus black-and-white--
and by all means, ignore all the chirping from Bush neo-cons right now--
oh wait--those are your talking points -
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You, like all of your ilk, are only good at one thing: Making victims. Now Obama is the victim of meeeeeeeeeen ole Bush. According to you Obama is in it ALL alone. Not so. He, like every president before him, chose a cabinet. He, like every president before him, has presidential advisers. Obama is the president. Foreign policy is his responsibility and he has blown it. He came to office with NO executive experience, a profound sympathy for islam, and completely incompetent. He has 10 million dollars. He is definitely NOT a victim as you want him to be. I don't see how he is still alive. A white president who did the things he has done would already have been impeached or assassinated. This is the OBAMA administration. He is accountable for what he does and does not do. Too bad no one has the balls to hold him accountable.
 
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Maenad said:
I agree. And I can't decide if this is a knee jerk reaction on Obama's part of if he is just giving the US the finger and sending a few troops in to try and show us a thing or two.......that our diplomats will still be killed and would have in Benghazi even with a few troops.
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it's worth the effort to try and get them out, if that's what he's looking to do. Otherwise, a completely foolish idea.
 
Boo Radley said:
it's worth the effort to try and get them out, if that's what he's looking to do. Otherwise, a completely foolish idea.
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I wish I could give him credit for having a plan. But he hasn't had a plan for anything so far.
 
Boo Radley said:
Can't say I know here.
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It remains to be seen. I've thought of writing my congressman to inquire if any pressure can be brought on the president to get them out. Of course, I have to concede that if I were an American diplomat in Iraq, I would already have removed myself from the country.
 
apdst said:
We could keep her alive, but we don't possess the leadership to do so.
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Or the will. I don't care whether Iraq stays alive or not. I'm upset about the money and blood we spent there. It is inexcusable. We were stupid. Hopefully, we are thinking more clearly now. Close the embassy, evacuate Americans and let's put Iraq in the rear view mirror. Hopefully it has taught us a lesson.
 
fmw said:
Or the will. I don't care whether Iraq stays alive or not. I'm upset about the money and blood we spent there. It is inexcusable. We were stupid. Hopefully, we are thinking more clearly now. Close the embassy, evacuate Americans and let's put Iraq in the rear view mirror. Hopefully it has taught us a lesson.
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One thing's for sure, if we are telling the troops that they wasted their lives. Whats that going to do for morale?

We can do all the leavin' you want but...we'll go back.
 
VanceMack said:
Uggggh. That gives him far too much credit. He wants to golf, go on vacation, go to fund raisers, and pretend he is the best thing to happen to the planet since sliced bread and teleprompters.
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And the clowns that agree with him are even worse.
 
ecofarm said:
Then you concede the following claim is nonsense:




They'll just kill a million or so and impose totalitarian rule over millions. Why anyone would want that is beyond me.
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Show me proof that the Iranians killed millions of their own people to impose their rule, Im waiting.
 
PoS said:
We should have never gone into Iraq in the first place. Now its a mess and a growing hotbed of Islamic terrorism. Non interventionism is the way to go.
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This is what I like about REAL libertarians. Even though I don't often agree with them, at least they are ****ing consistent unlike most conservatives.
 
PoS said:
Show me proof that the Iranians killed millions of their own people to impose their rule, Im waiting.
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Do you have no idea how the Iranian regime operates?

[2001]

CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy.

More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre - a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.
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Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran' - Telegraph
 
PoS said:
Still waiting for those millions of Iranian dead claims by you... :waiting:
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How many would have to be murdered before you felt that this Iranian theocracy might be a tad overzealous?
 
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