After spending years bragging about the removal of troops from Iraq, Obama suddenly changed his narrative after ISIS has ripped through the country, started beheading Christian children and is promising to “raise the flag of Allah at the White House”:
It´s all George Bush´s fault.
“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Obama stated, right before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
Wait…what? Does he not think we will remember all the touting he´s done about taking troops out of the country and how it was his big campaign promise back in 2008? Now suddenly it ´wasn’t his decision´.
What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Mr. Obama told reporters just before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. “So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq. So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.”
Mr. Obama’s new take on the 2011 troop withdrawal quickly came under fire from a number of political pundits who pointed out the irony of a president moving away, at least in part, from his signature foreign policy achievement.
Ron Fournier of the National Journal tweeted that the president is distancing himself from his own record.
“A promise he kept, and he’s running from it?” he said.
James Taranto, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and editor of OpinionJournal.com, said Mr. Obama apparently is no longer claiming credit for the removal of American forces, something that, until now, he frequently boasted about.
“Obama is not only disclaiming responsibility for the troop pullout but blaming it on George W. Bush,” he wrote Monday.
Indeed, Mr. Obama’s most recent description of the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal differs greatly from how he portrayed it in 2012, when he was running for re-election against Republican Mitt Romney.
While it’s true the administration did support keeping a small residual force in Iraq, Mr. Obama frequently took credit for fully ending American involvement in Iraq and for leaving no U.S. boots on the ground in that country.
In fact, during one October 2012 debate with Mr. Romney, the president seemed to deny that he supported a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government, a deal that would have formally allowed American troops to remain in Iraq and would have protected them from prosecution in Iraqi courts.
When Mr. Romney said he, like Mr. Obama, believed such an agreement should have been worked out, the president said “that’s not true” and went on to decry the presence of any American forces in Iraq.
“What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East. You’ve got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean. Now, you just gave a speech a few weeks ago in which you said we should still have troops in Iraq,” he told Mr. Romney. “That is not a recipe for making sure that we are taking advantage of the opportunities and meeting the challenges of the Middle East.”
Source: washingtontimes.com
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin
FAILURE
Of course it is; He invaded the WRONG country (war crime) cost hundreds of thousands of lives (and impacted thousands of American families for life as well), ran up a monstrous bill for this and for what?
http://youtu.be/8TTU54q9jBA
Dictator obumer , what a DICKHEAD.
this guy is an empty liberal suit… like most of them he lies and manipulates to never take responsibility for his dramatic failures of leadership
Hows this for what is happenning
NATURALLY
This POS is mentally ill!!!
You guys are retarded and facts mean nothing to you. As for the debt well it would be where it’s at no matter who the president was because of our deficit. You have to reduce the deficit to slow the snowball effect. Funny thing is republicans almost always explode the deficit while the democrats lower it… Fact
I am not defending Obama, but just trying to be fair..Obama was not the one starting the war against a country that really had nothing to do with 9/11. The next government always inherits, one way or another, the consequences of the actions taken by the previous governments. things are not as clear as you might think they are, this c**p will not stop with Obama leaving the white house, it will continue as well. the US will keep in getting more and more involved in middle eastern issues because it has obligations towards its orphan child Israel. No one can become a US president with the support of the Israeli Jewish Lobby (which is actually controlling everything in the US), and the price of this support is to always be involved in the Middle East. It is not just Oil like most people think.
So typical. When it becomes bad, deny responsibility.