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President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing the troops


Posted: Jun 21, 2014

The last two paragraphs are the most interesting. This is why Obama may go down in history as a liar-in-chief. This just proves how he is so incompetent. Too bad the double standard only works for Democrats and too bad the Democrats can't see truth even when it hits them on the head.

President Obama took credit in 2012 for withdrawing all troops from Iraq. Today he said something different.

June 19

President Obama surprised a few people during a news conference Thursday by claiming that the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart. The implication ran counter to a number of claims that Obama has made in the past, most notably during a tight campaign season two years ago, when he suggested that it was his decision to leave Iraq and end an unpopular war.

Yet, for much of the 2012 campaign, Obama had included a line of celebration in his standard stump speech, one that always drew a rousing applause: “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”

"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That’s not true," Obama interjected. “Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?” Romney asked as an argument ensued. “No,” Obama said.

On Thursday, Obama addressed reporters in the White House Briefing Room about Iraq’s latest crisis. “Do you wish you had left a residual force in Iraq? Any regrets about that decision in 2011?” a reporter asked. “Well, keep in mind that wasn’t a decision made by me,” Obama said. “That was a decision made by the Iraqi government.”

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Withdraw all troops -vs- residual force - Apples and oranges

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Obama did accomplish the end of the military involvement in Iraq. For awhile there was a transitional force of about 50,000. Later the complete withdrawal was accomplished with the Iraqi president requesting no residual force.

As usual, the Republicans are trying to rewrite history and make some sort of issue out of nothing.

In my opinion, you are so correct. :) - sm

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Republicans seem focused like a laser on proving that the rest of us would have never voted for Obama if only he wasn't politically savvy and able to somehow obfuscate the truth and somehow able to trick us all into voting Democratic. They somehow think that if Obama had told the "truth" about Benghazi (the truth as they see it, of course), that we'd have cast our vote for Romney or if only he had not lied about "whatever" that the outcome would have been different.

Speaking for myself, nothing could be further from the truth. It was Romney's own words and actions that disqualified him in my eyes, and nothing Obama said would have changed that fact.

Exactly, which is why Democrats will continue to hold this - office

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Republicans are going to cry Benghazi ad nauseam as their only campaign plank (except of course all the other unpopular social right-wing holier than thou righteous agenda issues that helped to pile on to the hot mess they ran on in 2012) while the Democrats appeal to the issues American citizens and most voters deal with every day.

You'd think they would have learned their lesson. I guess it's easier to do what they are doing than think about how to appeal to all voters. But I see how they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Even if they wanted to appeal to the country's demographics, they couldn't because the can't incorporate anything into a campaign platform that would appeal to demographics the TP has no interest in, and doesn't align with the TP's rigid, noncompromising nature.

Just love it. In 2011, Obama stated it was Iraq ending the war - Truthhurts

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You can't comprehend the information? He claimed, ' ...the 2011 decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq, a politically popular move on the eve of an election year, was made entirely by his Iraqi counterpart.

On the campaign trail, he said this:

“Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed in Bowling Green, Ohio, in September 2012, and did nearly every day after until the election. “We did.”

Then, last Thursday, this happened:
On Thursday, Obama addressed reporters in the White House Briefing Room about Iraq’s latest crisis. “Do you wish you had left a residual force in Iraq? Any regrets about that decision in 2011?” a reporter asked. “Well, keep in mind that wasn’t a decision made by me,” Obama said. “That was a decision made by the Iraqi government.”

Note, he again stated it was the Iraqi government that made the decision.

So, twice he said the Iraqi government made the decision but when campaigning, he gave himself credit. Which was it? I tend to believe it was definitely the Iraqi government and he was just doing his regular flip-flop because he couldn't remember what he said before.

Here's some more information that some can't seem to comprehend. - sm

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I don't understand this seemingly never-ending fascination with whining about what Obama said that contradicts itself, as if had Obama only "told the truth" the election would have all been different. Some seem to want to endlessly argue that Obama had a flip-flop on either this or that or whatever, but these people were solidly behind Mitt Romney, whom I believe holds some kind of record for being the most consummate flip-flopper the world has ever seen (see condensed video, link attached, but I could have attached a video 20 minutes long!).

SO:
- Politicians say annoying things......... check
- The election is over.......................... check
- There's not going to be a do-over.... check

"You can't comprehend the information?" Okay, well, Obama is technically correct actually, "We did" end the war in Iraq, and Iraq didn't want us to stay occupying the region. They didn't want us there so we did end the war. So it's BOTH.

Gee, I wonder what the USA would be like - sm

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if we spent all our "war money" (an unending big black hole) and actually spent it on feeding and housing the poor, taking care of our elderly, fixing the roads and bridges that crumble below our feet now, a new electrical grid, making sure our hero soldiers have a functioning VA system that really CARES about them and gives them the very best medical care that is available, etc.

We could be an America that could truly lead by example ONCE WE HAVE OUR OWN PROBLEMS SOLVED.

Instead, we have chosen to become the planet's slumlord.

And, yes, the Iraqi government wanted us OUT of there, and who could blame them?


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