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By David Rufful on June 26, 2014 in World News
1. Despite the pleas of top U.S. generals who advised against pulling out of Iraq without leaving residual force, Obama removed U.S. troops. Why? For the same reason he does everything else: Political purposes.
2. “Obama wanted out of Iraq, and ran in 2008 with a promise to do just that. A year after the troop pullout, during a 2012 debate, Mitt Romney said he wanted a residual force to remain. Obama pointedly disagreed, saying that leaving ’10,000 troops in Iraq … would tie us down.’” -Larry Elder
4. Obama claimed Iraq was “self-reliant and democratic” and “a country in which people from different religious sects and ethnicities can resolve their differences peacefully through the democratic process.”
5. Obama left Iraq prematurely. There is a reason we still have troops in Germany and Japan. If you’re going to leave before our goals are accomplished, then we shouldn’t have invaded. The problem is, Obama has no clear diplomatic goals. His actions demonstrate in intention of establishing democracy.
6. The intelligence communities in US, Israel, Britain, Germany, Russia, China and France all agreed that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Among newspaper editorials and political commentators who opposed the war, no one disputed the claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction because Iraq used weapons of mass destruction in their war against Iran.
7. In addition to WMDs, Hussein regularly paid $25,000 to the families of Palestinians who were suicide bombers or harboring terrorists. He attempted to shoot down Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force planes over the no-fly zones created to prevent Hussein from mass slaughtering his own citizens.
8. President Bush did not invade Iraq until he obtained a resolution from the House of Representatives, obtained a resolution from the U.S. Senate and obtained a resolution from the United Nations. Gallup found that 76% of Americans support the Iraq war, the same percentage that supported the first Persian Gulf War. This process took 15 months. Before the war began, Hussein’s WMDs were moved out of Iraq and into Syria, as reported by James Clapper of National Intelligence, Iraqi top general Georges Sada in his book “Saddam’s Secrets,” and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
9.Had we not invaded? “…Saddam Hussein would have soon restarted his chemical and biological program — and resumed his pursuit for a nuclear capability. After the war started, Bush sent David Kay, a weapons hunter, to locate the assumed stockpiles of WMD. Kay found no stockpiles, but he did find that Saddam had the intent and the ability to restart his WMD program as soon as the heat was off.”
Is the current crisis in Iraq W’s fault? Clearly not.
http://youngcons.com/8-reasons-the-bloodbath-in-iraq-is-not-ws-fault/
Now let the slander begin.......
1. Despite the pleas of top U.S. generals who advised against pulling out of Iraq without leaving residual force, Obama removed U.S. troops. Why? For the same reason he does everything else: Political purposes.
2. “Obama wanted out of Iraq, and ran in 2008 with a promise to do just that. A year after the troop pullout, during a 2012 debate, Mitt Romney said he wanted a residual force to remain. Obama pointedly disagreed, saying that leaving ’10,000 troops in Iraq … would tie us down.’” -Larry Elder
4. Obama claimed Iraq was “self-reliant and democratic” and “a country in which people from different religious sects and ethnicities can resolve their differences peacefully through the democratic process.”
5. Obama left Iraq prematurely. There is a reason we still have troops in Germany and Japan. If you’re going to leave before our goals are accomplished, then we shouldn’t have invaded. The problem is, Obama has no clear diplomatic goals. His actions demonstrate in intention of establishing democracy.
6. The intelligence communities in US, Israel, Britain, Germany, Russia, China and France all agreed that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Among newspaper editorials and political commentators who opposed the war, no one disputed the claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction because Iraq used weapons of mass destruction in their war against Iran.
7. In addition to WMDs, Hussein regularly paid $25,000 to the families of Palestinians who were suicide bombers or harboring terrorists. He attempted to shoot down Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force planes over the no-fly zones created to prevent Hussein from mass slaughtering his own citizens.
8. President Bush did not invade Iraq until he obtained a resolution from the House of Representatives, obtained a resolution from the U.S. Senate and obtained a resolution from the United Nations. Gallup found that 76% of Americans support the Iraq war, the same percentage that supported the first Persian Gulf War. This process took 15 months. Before the war began, Hussein’s WMDs were moved out of Iraq and into Syria, as reported by James Clapper of National Intelligence, Iraqi top general Georges Sada in his book “Saddam’s Secrets,” and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
9.Had we not invaded? “…Saddam Hussein would have soon restarted his chemical and biological program — and resumed his pursuit for a nuclear capability. After the war started, Bush sent David Kay, a weapons hunter, to locate the assumed stockpiles of WMD. Kay found no stockpiles, but he did find that Saddam had the intent and the ability to restart his WMD program as soon as the heat was off.”
Is the current crisis in Iraq W’s fault? Clearly not.
http://youngcons.com/8-reasons-the-bloodbath-in-iraq-is-not-ws-fault/
Now let the slander begin.......
