If this is a defeat for anybody it would President Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s foreign policy strategy, not President Obama. 10 years and untold billions spent and were being pushed out. 

I hope it was all worth it America.

“Bush appeared at a news conference in Baghdad with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to highlight the newly adopted security agreement between the United States and Iraq. The agreement includes a commitment to withdraw all American forces by the end of 2011.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/world/middleeast/15prexy.html

Great news for the troops! 

But this was an agreement between Bush and al-Maliki that was made in 2008.

Congratulations to France, Britain, George W.
Bush, and the Iraqi people for bringing an end to the Iraq war, which we
shouldn’t actually end anyway because Obama is bad. And this proves
that WMDs were a totally legimitate threat all along and that torture
works. Plus the Iraqi people should reimburse us for all of the bombs we
dropped. And somehow the Muslim Caliphate is involved. I just wanted to get that out there on behalf of Republicans everywhere.

Better late, than never.    Welcome home, troops.

You know I was wondering how long it would be before the first insipid moron jumped out of the turnip patch to say this is “Bush’s agreement”. I got news for you moron-Bush ain’t potus and Obama didnt have to honor ANY OF HIS AGREEMENTS. You do get that don’t you? What you missed was that Obama said the WAR WAS OVER. Did Bush ever say that? No. I suggest you learn how to read before you open you filthy ignorant mouth.

Now for all you stupid conservatives preparing to jump on this thread OBAMA JUST ENDED THE WAR.

NOT BUSH-OBAMA. LIVE WITH IT!

HELL OF A WEEK BARRY! WAY TO GO AND GOD BLESS.

Why is the name of God would you be attempting to categorize this as a defeat for anyone?  Before you start allowing your defeatism to get the best of you, I suggest you at least wait and see what kind of government the Iraqi’s can maintain in the absence of an American presence.

While I’m not entirely optimistic, I would like to think that Iraq can defend herself from the external as well as internal aggressors many fear will take advantage of our absence.  I suppose only time will tell.

awesom president is awesom.

This IS the Bush/Cheney strategy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement

How long did you want to stay?

nevermind the massive diplomatic presence, the enormous security forces to guard them,
as well as the largest embassy on the planet.  

yeah, it’s “over” alright

That is why we spent 8 years training them.

This is awesome…the incompetent one just gave Iran a timeline so they can prepare to move in and take over the oil!! Good job dumbass!!!

Rufus the Dufus – You really need to get back on your meds pal.  Level of unhingement is reaching dangerous levels here! 

Oh, and for the record – Obama didn’t end any war seeing as there was no war in Iraq to end.

“Bush ain’t potus and Obama didn’t have to honor ANY OF HIS AGREEMENTS”

Simply shows your ignorance. Oh well. 

Freedom? Yeah. It’s a good thing worth fighting for.

Yeah, we did it for freedom.

You’re an idiot.

I got news for you moron-Bush ain’t potus and Obama didnt have to honor ANY OF HIS AGREEMENTS.

Yes he does, unless he negotiates a different one. The agreement wasn’t between Bush and Iraq, it was between the US and Iraq. Dumbass.

You mean Iran isn’t after their “freedom”?

Hey weren’t you complaining about Obama and Libya where no Americans were hurt or killed unlike Iraq, where absolutely nothing was gained where in Libya , a lot might be gained. Mission accomplished? yeah right.One war might have been worth the cost and one the cost was way too high.  But you won’t admit anything due to ….your brain I quess Mark

Mission (finally) accomplished.

 Unless he negotiates a different one.

Exactly loser.

War’s over. Don’t be such a sourpuss! Oh whoops! You wanted that to fail too!

What might be gained in Libya that hasn’t been gained in Iraq? Take the blinders off.

Yes Pablo – It’s not their military that concerns me.  They’ve received the best equipment and training available.  What occupies my thoughts is the national resolve to defend the institution they’ve just recently been introduced to and not fall back on the historical system of autocratic governing which clearly has fallen so out of fashion.

You miss Saddam, don’t you?

BTW, what’s with the racist handle you’re using?

Rufus, you are either an agitator or foolish. .

F*ck you midget. 

Unintelligent one, please consider.

He didn’t negotiate a different agreement. He only had 3 options. Sooner, as planned, or later. He agreed with what the former criminal potus agreed too. 

You have very little ability to reason and I would suggest that you not operate heavy machinery, vehicles or anything with sharp or moving parts.

Uh, it was a timeline established by Bush…three years ago.  If the Iranians needed preparation to move in, they’ve had plenty of time.  I’m not arguing that Bush wasn’t a dumbass, mind you, but it is in his entering Iraq, not his agreeing to leave, whence his dumbassery shines through.

wow, can’t people just be happy the troops are coming home instead of worrying about blaming and crediting bush or Obama, jeez.

I think if the US enters into an agreement with another country, the US honors the agreement. And my reason for pointing it out is that this is not a new withdrawal date – we have known about this for 3 years.

If the Obama administration wants to continue to blame the Bush administration for things, they should at least acknowledge when they do something like this – set the date for total withdrawal. 

Do you have a poster of Obama hanging on your ceiling above your bed? You seem to reeeeeeally reeeeeeeally like him. 

Big tater you are most likely a conservative which means you hate America and might be either a pedophile or a dittohead or possibly both.

;-)

Hey Pablo,,,about that question   are you on this planet? Thousands dead..hundreds of thousand injured…the country put in bankruptcy…you can’t be for real are you?

Pablow, TeBow, Michelle, Conservagal, Tatman, Texan and all other hateful, idealogical, twisted thinkers out there (the listed are just frequent offenders) . . . how ’bout just saying this: THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT! He just declared victory in a sublime and classy way and will save us AT LEAST another trillion by doing so.

You all know how to say thank you, right? It’s not hard . . . . just put your lips and BLOW

 Dear Ignorant Sara-

1. Please for the love of God keep your idiocy in Italy and away from the American gene pool.

2. Obama ended the war. If you can’t accept that then please stick your head in a toilet and flush repeatedly

3. Did I mention Obama ended the war? Obama ended the war.

It was about time we got fully out of Iraq and this huge nightmare.  

Lol…..Pablo is calling someone a racist!! Lol….the irony!!!

You are a racist right wing nutjob! How do I know this? You repeated the slavery apologist lie that the first person to own a slave was a black man. I hope you know that only racists repeat that lie?

being on topic…..Obama keeps finishing his missions unlike Bush- it must hurt your right wing heart everytime

VV – what the hell are you babbling about?  Nothing was gained in Iraq – really?  Well, I would like to think we replaced a despot, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people and twice as many Iranians, with a democratically elected ally.  I would like to think we introduced a system of American values and ideals to a people, who for the last 35 years, were starved of a life of peace and freedom.  What we gained in Iraq can only be hoped for in Libya – whose future is filled with uncertainty and fear.  Let’s see what the next six months bring before we start doing our victory dance, OK?

Can’t wait for the post about Rush Limbaugh freaking out over this!!

say no to drugs rufus

How about if I thank our troops.  Why do you libs have to make everything about Obama?

Are you joking? These people treat politics like its a sports team even the writers on this site do it. Blind biased idiots on both sides

“Bush ain’t potus” – Rufus Danegro

how ’bout telling that to Obama the next time he start’s whining about what he inherited. He does it every damn day of the week.
 

Aw that REALLLLLY get you people don’t it?

Obama ended the war;CHIN UP LITTLE GUY!

Republicans: We can’t WAIT to filibuster the troop-reemployment plan that Obama is cooking up right now!

Oh, thank the person who voted against the surge which won the war  and thank the party that said in the middle of the war:”The war is lost.”

Yeah, heck of a job Barry!

I think the dumbass got us into that useless war..

Plop, lop, plop!

You would like to think huh? Yeah right…babble on Mark babble on.

Good week for Americans, bad week for Republicans.

I’ve met reasonable sport fans, incidentally they don’t seem to be fans of teams in the north east but they do exist

Yep Bush was a show off declaring mission accomplished to the end to the war eight years ago. He looks quite possibly now like the biggest dumbasss idiot in presidential history. Obama on the other hand is the ninja war hero president Bush dreamed about, but could never possibly be. Chalk another victory up for the real commander in chief of our times.

http://twitter.com/#!/shitmydadsays/status/127441300210458624

It’s really sad that the liberals on this board are so interested in crediting Barry that they can’t put the credit where it really belongs, to our brave men and women.  Great job, guys!!

 SHE HASN’T GOT THE LIMBAUGH MEME YET.

GIVE HER THE FAT ONE SOME TIME!

say no to stupidity, cj

LOL

You libs are so, so stupid.

The withdrawal was negotiated by and approved by the Bush administration in December 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barry had NOTHING to do with it!!!

The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: “Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq”) is a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States. It establishes that U.S. combat forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011,
subject to possible further negotiations which could delay withdrawal and a referendum scheduled for mid-2009 in Iraq which may require U.S. forces to completely leave by the middle of 2010.”

God, you libs just make this crap up!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement

And all those people are dead so you could like to think it was worth it…just shows how intellectually bankrupt you are…Libya is filled with uncertainty and fear? the man was killed yesterday…Iraq is in more of a mess then that today after all these lives and dollars….so please keep thinking

Top Fox military aide said that it was “interesting wording” the Obama chose to us and instead it was more likely that Malachi and the Obama administration didn’t agree to terms.

Even Engel, on MSNBC, says that Iraq is in poor conditions.

I fear for that region.

no

United States Agrees to Withdraw all Troops From Iraq by 2011August 25, 2008LOLYou libs are so so ignorant!http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/08/25/us-iraq-usa-idUSLP66354720080825?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Yeah, that’s gonna get dicey. Sadr has just been biding his time. We demolished the Mahdi Army but we won’t be around to do it again.

And that’s what frightens you, huh dipshit – that I would be silly enough to think?  You go on parroting the worn out lines of the left if that makes you feel better!  Oh, and exactly how much oil did we steal from Iraq during our invasion and subsequent occupation/rebuilding?

I’ve served.  I trained.  Highest levels.  You cant train soul, grit and how to be a winner.  Iraq is doomed and Iran will annex.  Fiirst thru religion, then terror then military.  Its a foregone conclusion.  The pentagon knows it… The President knows.  Iraq knows it.

Why don’t you answer the question?

 Wow conservatives ARE WEEPING TODAY. Yesterday we got Q-ball and today Obama ends the ten year folly in Iraq that fills yet another campaign promise. Oppps. I guess we’re just going to have to put that on the record for 2012! What even funnier is now conservatives seem to love that isolationism that Ron Paul is preaching-I guess they forgot that is possible to wage war against your enemies in cost effective way-Democrats seem to have figured that out! Now that Palin is singing Paul’s praiss and Obama is getting the job done it would seem that our conservative brothers and sisters will be pulling out all the stops. The American people are not going to like it when they freak out because Obama ended the war.

And just wait when people start giving him credit for WINNING IT. Oh another happy day for America and another nail in the coffin for conservatism!

YIPPIE KI-AY!

This is why I’ve made it my mission to not return to certain peeps on Mediaite. The level of derangement is just way too high. Rufus is one of them. Watch him respond to me. He was obsessed with Michelle and myself yesterday. Watch out for him.

Was anything I said false? (hint: no) 

Did Bush have an agreement with Iraq to be out by end of 2011? (hint: yes)

So, it’s now considered ignorant to state facts? 

And, didn’t Obama declare the war over, in August? 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083105193.html

(obviously this is rrk using one of his many aliases… calm down sybil!)

Talk about 4 trillion and over 40K American soldiers injured not to mention hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and Afghanis and millions more displaced out of their respective countries. Meanwhile the true war hero president just took out Qaddafy with no injured servicemen and for less than 2 billion!! Very bad week for Roger Fails, Rush Bimbo and the rest of the Republicon Party.

LOL

What a loser you are-

The troop withdrawal was signed  by Bush in 2008- eat it you stupid lib!

Iraq PM says U.S. agrees to withdraw troops by 2011

Mon, Aug 25 2008

U..S. says still no final deal with Baghdad on troops 

BAGHDAD | Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:20am EDT
(Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011.

You have to give Republicans credit for one thing:  They forced Sharia law on the entire population of Iraq.

I don’t know if anything like this has ever happened before.

Besides the Republicans, has anybody ever forced Sharia law on a previously secular nation?

Did you say thank you when Bush announced the same thing in 2008?

Thanks for reminding us, Barack!

Do you think that is how America should behave? Conquer and annihilate countries and rule over them maybe with a puppet ruler?

CAN YOU SAY “NEO-CON”?

Go ahead merde for brains. But while thanking the troops you also might want to mention their supreme commander and chief. See what I mean everybody. Unpatriotic harlot!

Yeah, good thinkin’. Well done. All of the problems you created just went away.

Wow RRK lives in your head rent free! He must be real lonely in such an empty place!

That would depend on your bias, which has been evident.  There’s been nothing to suggest Obama had a clue Gaddafi was in the convoy attacked yesterday, and Gaddafi escaped the airstrikes, he was pulled out of a drainage ditch by Libyans, before having the crap beat out of him before being executed and dragged around like a rag doll.   The war in Iraq is hardly over, he’s just bringing the majority of the troops home.  The killing and terrorism will continue, its just the MSM will ignore it just like they’ve ignored under Obama our troop deaths increased significantly in part because of a lack of authority to protect themselves.  Those who are tired of the wars and want them over no matter what will likely be happy, and that’ll cross party lines.  Those agree with how he’s managed the wars will likely be happy, those who disagree likely won’t.  Time may tell who was right.  

Deeply resonant today: Obama’s 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war, as read by supporters in Oct 2007:http://youtu.be/AUV69LZbCNQ

BREAKING NOW:

Obama proposing more BIG-BANK BAILOUTS to help fend off European monetary failures and bankruptcies.
Senators just left a meeting!

Hey OWS! — YOU REALLY ACCOMPLISHED A LOT!
LMAO!

(So what was the shelf-life of the Gaddafi kill? - 48 hours, tops?)

This is just too great:

The OWS is trying to garner some legitamacy of purpose, and Obama, who SAID he was sympathetic to their cause, is going to give the Wall Street Banks Tens of Billions more to bail out the European Banks!
- and the Media Matters money hasn’t even run out on the protestors yet!

You can’t make this stuff up!

HEY OWS, HOW’S THE VIEW FROM UNDER THE OBAMA BUS?
LMAO!

You haven’t passed the compete idiot test yet Stonepark. Ask Michelle about tutoring services. You’re close though . . .

Please put a sock in it.

Amen.

Iraq PM says U.S. agrees to withdraw troops by 2011

Mon, Aug 25 2008

BAGHDAD | Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:20am EDT

(Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011.”LIbs are just plain stupid-LIbs are just plain stupid-

Hey libs, you can thank Bush for the troop withdrawal!

LMAO

That isn’t a lie. The first slave was John Casor. A black man, Anthony Johnson owned him. Why do you hate facts? And what do you think of the “Rufus Danegro” name? 

What does the military think of this?  Of course, no response.

Well what the hell can you say about this?
 I am in agreement with you.
 Feaking amazing!

You got that right!

That’s really funny since you must mean the opposite of what you say, since the traditional position of conservatives is to love their country and the traditional position of liberals is to criticize their country and try to make it more like Mother Russia.  I guess that means you’re a pedophile too.

I have to agree with you, in that at the very least, this is a victory for the troops.

LOL

Bush negotiated the withdrawal in 2008, you ignorant lib.

Cry me a big river!

This has been America’s longest war. Would you have us there another nine years? Or nineteen years? Or ninety years? Conditions are never going to be perfect for our departure. The middle east is a land of perpetual ethnic violence and religious war. How long would you have the US wait them out? 

You first, Exgoper.

The lower Obama’s poll numbers go, the more loony his supporters get.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150230/Obama-Job-Approval-Average-Slides-New-Low-11th-Quarter.aspx

You morons do realize all Barry is doing is sticking to the timeline BUSH set, right? 

Poor loser lib- Bush negotiated the troop withdrawal deadline in 2008!

God, you must feel like a complete imbecile that you are!

Stop trying to confuse the liberals with FACTS.  They hate that.

…by following the Bush Doctrine to the letter.

Poor stonepark. Not having a good week with all this good political news for Obama, are you? 

LMAO!!!

So, how is Libya a useful war? What do we get out of it?

Aw norby trying to change the subject again.

I thought that was Michelle’s job

I see no indication that you read this story or watched the video.  As for Gaddafi, it’s a GOOD THING that the U.S. doesn’t have to be on the ground for democratic uprisings (i.e. civil wars).  You seem to be living in an alternate universe or something.

This will surely give the GOP debates some farter as well… bout time to so far they have been snoozer’s.

I’ll translate for Colorado Caveman. What he’s really trying to say is “THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT.”

I’ll translate for Colorado Caveman. What he’s really trying to say is “THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT.”

There’s hardly anyone left there now. This thing has been over for us for quite some time.

What a stupid lib you are!

“Iraq PM says U.S. agrees to withdraw troops by 2011Mon, Aug 25 2008 BAGHDAD | Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:20am EDT

(Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011.

What a truly stupid entity you are. You definitely are a 99%- a brain that is 99% water and fat!

 Is this the third grade opposite day defense? Epic fail counselor.

San Diego!

Ramble on marky-mark!

Rufus Danegro 5 minutes ago in reply to sarainitalyWow RRK lives in your head rent free! He must be real lonely in such an empty place!

—

So says the guy who mentions me in threads all the time, even when I am not there. And can never resist to reply to my comments.

Yet, the President numbers keep falling.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150230/Obama-Job-Approval-Average-Slides-New-Low-11th-Quarter.aspx

 Why do you hate facts rude boy? you nailed Pablo right were he lives.

This is HUGE!

They’re protesting the injustice, Obama gives another “throw-them-a-bone” speech about how he understands…then proposes billions more to Wall Street banks, to bail out other banks!

Hey OWS, had the back of that hand feel whipping across your collective faces?
Ya’ gotta’ Love It!

For all the stupid libs on Mediaite:

Christmas will be on December 25 !

Amen!

Because you teabaggers are quick to blame him for all that’s bad, nitwit!

Keep looking for that sock honey.

* snicker *

Wow are you stupid or what?

“Iraq PM says U.S. agrees to withdraw troops by 2011

Mon, Aug 25 2008 BAGHDAD | Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:20am EDT (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011.

See child, that was done by Bush! By Bush!

LOL

get on your knees and thank Bush, you pathetic ignorant libturd!

You lost- big time and I’m so happy to reveal in your stupidity.

BTW, Christmas is on December 25 !

LOL

So, this is where we thank Bush for giving Obama the ability to withdraw the troops, right Republicans?

Hey Rufus, New Year’s Eve is on December 31 this year!

LMAO

man, what a dufus you are!

ObamaGasm !!!

ObamaGasm !!!

No they aren’t loser.

http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

Nice try

“THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT BUSH”

There..fixed it for you!!
Oblamer hasn’t done shit except take credit off the coat tails of Bush when it is politically expedient and blame him when it is not!!
And of course the State ran media has his back!!

plop plop plop sploosh

You have NO CLUE what that was about do you??

You are simply repeating Liberal talking points …errrr lies!!

Do some research and think for your self, you are embarrassing yourself!!

You have NO CLUE what that was about do you??

You are simply repeating Liberal talking points …errrr lies!!

Do some research and think for your self, you are embarrassing yourself!!

You have NO CLUE what that was about do you??

You are simply repeating Liberal talking points …errrr lies!!

Do some research and think for your self, you are embarrassing yourself!!

These days I’d say that any week that’s bad for Republicans is good for America. 

 exactly. read their comments-they are hilarious!

I’m a fan of the President A-HOLE I was putting it up because I was shocked it was so poor. My god you people are the worst.

This is really in relpy to Jeffrey. Trying to reason with these nitwits is like trying to piss into a boot through a closed window. Ain’t gonna’ happen. I they’re paid trollers–since I find in incomprehensible that anyone could be that stupid.

This is where we can thank Bush for drawing the war to a close as a victory despite Obama’s voting against the surge that turned the war in the USA’s favor and despite the earnest hopes of libs that we would lose the war and provides an opportunity for all Americans to see how desperate libs are to take credit for something that had nothing to do with.

Bush was responsible for the troop withdrawal-

bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Multiple Obamagasms !!

All we gained in Iraq was picking up the Check..

Unlike you, Rush is aware that in 2008, Bush signed this troop removal agreement!

LOL

God are you stupid!

Me thinks Barry is trying to divert attention from other news that came out today.   Like this for instance:

Obama Admin Gives Half-Billion-Dollar Loan To Gore-Connected Electric Car Company To Build Cars In Finland…

They seem to do something like this every time a story comes out that will give them another black eye.  How many rapes and murders could’ve been prevented if that money had gone to employee cops?

 Never mind Norby michelle is back up to her usual obfuscating tricks! Who didn’t see that coming?

LOL

Plop plop plop sploosh

It’s tough to be a Repube these days; not a word on this from Rush or National Review and the tiniest little note on Drudge.
 
DO NOT UPSET THE CONSERVATIVE  SLUMBER

Funny how all of a sudden this is not Obama’s War anymore but he been labeled as it’s owner for the last three years.  Just mixing the pot have at me.

Yeah, facts are real tricks to your pea brain!

LOL

Let me answer the question for you VV. Pablo’s the least intimidating of the rightwing nutjobs that post here regularly. Western Europe (especially France gets most of imported oil from Libya), that’s why the PRESIDENT made them take the lead in terms of troops and money. We provided logistical and financial support.

As is the NATO creed, any attack on one, is an attack on all. So, seems like we honored our NATO leadership obligation. Not that the facts will appease your idiotic ass.

Why would we be upset.  Bush announced this in 2008.

What exactly did we win? Pyrrhic is a word that comes to mind unless I’m missing something.

You go and pick up stories from Foxnation. What a surprise that Foxnation runs anti Obama stories. The question is why don’t you just stay over at Foxnation. There are a lot of people there who think just like you.You will be cheering each other all day long.

San Diego is one of CA’s shining spots. Love the Southern Coast of CA. It’s everything North of there that ruins it.

Yup, all part of the Bush plan: Conservatives are to be quiet as church mice when the Freedom to End All Freedoms is complete. 

Now Norby, what did I say about Rufus? :)

Let him be. He’s making himself insane.

Screw Iraq.  Lets get the hell out – we have wasted enough time, money and lives there.  We MUST get off of our oil dependency as soon as possible so we never have to play the oil for blood game again.  Personally, I am getting tired of Americans dieing for oil in other countries.

“President Obama’s speech formally declaring that the last 43,000 U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year was designed to mask an unpleasant truth: The troops aren’t being withdrawn because the U.S. wants them out. They’re leaving because the Iraqi government refused to let them stay.

Obama campaigned on ending the war in Iraq but had instead spent the past few months trying to extend it. A 2008 security deal between Washington and Baghdad called for all American forces to leave Iraq by the end of the year, but the White House — anxious about growing Iranian influence and Iraq’s continuing political and security challenges — publicly and privately tried to sell the Iraqis on a troop extension. As recently as last week, the White House was trying to persuade the Iraqis to allow 2,000-3,000 troops to stay beyond the end of the year.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/u-s-troop-withdrawal-motivated-by-iraqi-insistence-not-u-s-choice-20111021#.TqG3e4NWUVU.twitter

huh…guess those jumping around praising Obama for “ending the war” might be upset to know he was actually trying to prolong it.

“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”

Now THIS is Mission Accomplished! Ha, Conservative heads are exploding all over the place. Our President keeps yet ANOTHER promise! Obama 2012!!!!

Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/car-company-us-loan-builds-cars-finland/story?id=14770875

ABC Exposes Govt. Loan to Build Cars in Finland, Skips Company’s Ties to Dem Fundraisers

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/10/21/abc-exposes-govt-loan-build-cars-finland-skips-companys-ties-dem-fun#ixzz1bReUieLx

You are a totally idiot.  Yes, the incompetent one that had both GM and Wall Street pay back their $$$, got Bin Laden, spend under a billion dollars with ZERO American casualties to topple Khadafy (vs. Bush’s 10 years, 4 trillion dollars, and nearly 5,000 deaths). Yep, sure sounds like incompetence for me. YOu’ve been listening a lit-tle too much to Rusbo. MORON. hahahah lmfao.  OBAMA 2012!!!! Yeehah!!!

He kept Bush’s promise. Obama was actually trying to break his promise.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/u-s-troop-withdrawal-motivated-by-iraqi-insistence-not-u-s-choice-20111021#.TqG3e4NWUVU.twitter

Whoops seems like Sarah and Mitt didn’t get the memo-see this date represents another failure.

I guess now Bush has nothing to do with it. You people are hilariously stupid.

“”President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure
an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the
victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of
American men and women.” Mitt Today.

Tell me again how this was organized by Bush years ago? Seems Mitt must be thinking of something else.

LOL

“The True War Hero President.”

Good Lord……..

Tell that to Mitt Romney:

“President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure
an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the
victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of
American men and women.”

You lose.

Again.

Narry a mention of the “I inherited” line, either by the President or the author of this piece.  No surprises there.
SOFA signed, sealed and delivered by President Bush…in this case, Obama inherited the strategy and he was smart enough to follow-through with it.

Too bad he is such a manchild, narcisist that he refuses to give credit where it is due.

oh well, kind of what we have grown to expect from this oval dweller.

It will be good to get all of our troops completely out of Iraq finally.

…Congratulations Mr Obama.

and this creates jobs how?

 Yawn.

“There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.”

You know why they don’t exist here, airhead? Because your party outsourced them, and it refuses to pass the current jobs bill that FORCES U.S. manufacturing. Now pick up your pom-poms and cheer for your losing team One (rah) More (rah) Time! (raaaaaaaaaaaaaah)

You’re confusing me with someone who supports Mitt.

And if you read the article, you would see that Iraq is sticking to their agreement with Bush – to have all troops out by end of 2011. 

Why don’t you quit calling people stupid, and realize that you are the one who is ignorant of the facts. 

What do we gain in Uganda or in Libya?

Very well-stated.

Casualties in Iraq:
Iraqi troops killed: 30,000
Iraqi troops seriously injured: 90,000
Iraqi civilians killed: 864,531
Iraqi civilians seriously injured: 1,556,156
U.S. troops killed: 4,414
U.S. troops seriously injured: 31,882
Other coalition troops killed: 318
Other coalition troops seriously injured: 2,296
Contractors killed: 933
Contractors seriously injured: 10,569
Journalists killed: 142
Journalists seriously injured: unknown
Total killed in Iraq: 900,338
Total injured in Iraq: 1,690,903

Why can’t we thank both?

I guess the problem with doing that in 2008 was: How could we believe a word W said at that point. So, now, I’ll say: “Thanks to our troops, an dthanks to their families. Thanks to W. Thanks to President Obama.”

Some people who hate Obama are saying this victory of the troops coming home is due to Bush as he signed the timeline. Some are saying this is a failure because they want Obama to somehow keep troops in Iraq even given the timeline. This sounds like Cain’s take on abortion and taxes!

Europe will get some of its oil back.  Thats it.

It’s not going well so far. If you agree the government shouldn’t bail out banks, then why aren’t you with OWS? The big banks are the problem here and both R and D administrations are bailing them out with our money! Stop being a partisan little bitch and get with the revolution!

You know Paulie what really chaps my hide about your attitude towards Libya is that you fail to draw the key distinction between the Iraqi people and the Libya people. Iraq was invaded. There had been no discernible effort by the Iraqi people to overthrow their leadership. Libyans liberated themselves, with some strategic help from NATO, the UK and France, and the US. When you act as if the situations in Liva and Iraq were the same, or as you suggest here that nothing was gained in Libya, you really are slandering some very, very brave people. I understand that your paramount mission is spin Libya into an episode that gives President Obama no credit, that allows you to continue to bash President Obama, but you do so at a terrible cost. The Libyans deserve more than you will give them.

The middle East dictators are being eliminated.  They wild cards.  The powers that be want controllable constant team playres ie easily controlled.  That region of the world will be pacified and brought into the “fold”

Casualties in Iraq:
Iraqi troops killed: 30,000
Iraqi troops seriously injured: 90,000
Iraqi civilians killed: 864,531
Iraqi civilians seriously injured: 1,556,156
U.S. troops killed: 4,414
U.S. troops seriously injured: 31,882
Other coalition troops killed: 318
Other coalition troops seriously injured: 2,296
Contractors killed: 933
Contractors seriously injured: 10,569
Journalists killed: 142
Journalists seriously injured: unknown
Total killed in Iraq: 900,338
Total injured in Iraq: 1,690,903

Only a vulgar cretin would write what you just did. It is beneath you. Take the weekend off. All your coordinated Obama bashing is taking its toll.

I had no idea turnips were grown in Italy.

Repubes LOVE those stats.  The more blood in the soil, the more patriotic the endeavor.

You just can’t tolerate giving President Obama a bit of credit, can you? It is truly pathological. A deep, deep psychosis. Better that thousands of Americans die, better that America go billions and billions more into debt than that President Obama be given even a begrdging pat on the back. Despite the fact that our troops and W get a pat on the back as well.

Well, the troops aren’t your countrymen (thanks to the BVM and all the Saints in Heaven since that would mean several more decades in Iraq). The money spent is not from your treasury.

Go Google up some interesting cheese to buy and grate and leave Americans alone!

Yes and Obama has followed through on this promise.  So good for both of them.

You’re a big liar, Tumbleweed. I left a meeting within the hour. You owe me an apoloigy, Liar.

You’re a big liar, Tumbleweed. I left a meeting within the hour. You owe me an apoloigy, Liar.

well stated

The righties don’t bother with the “facts”.

Lying, again, Michelle-in-Utah. As always. Plenty of credit has been given to the troops. I understand you can’t be happy, you can’t accept good news for America and Americans, but you really shouldn’t lie.

Tragic.

Thanks for that recap.

Well, at least I can say I finally agree with something he is doing before he gets voted out of office.

Straight from Lard Limbaugh!

Tuned in to the old gasbag on my way back from Frost Bank. Almost verbatim.

Yes, but President McCain and Vice-President Palin couldn’t seem to make it happen.

Amen. The Idiot Triplets, Michelle-in-Utah, Sarah N. Italy and Bidet can’t seem to accept they fact that giving credit to President Obama takes something away from W, or that criticizing W gives credit to President Obama. They are so wrapped up in the political bi-polar world, the anger can never abate. Sad for both of them.

You and your idiot sisters seem upset that the thousands more Americans won’t be lost in Iraq and billions more dollars won’t be squandered, so I’m not sure what your point is, Tumbleweed.

*Y*A*W*N* as well.

You understand this White House was trying to get our troops to stay longer. Iraq is kicking us out. I’m glad our troops are coming home but I’m nothing going to be blind to the facts on the ground. Like you and many posters seem to be.

A little awkward reminder for all those (I’m looking at you, Michelle) who keep yammering about how Bush negotiated a 2011 withdrawal:

“During a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told a crowd of roughly two hundred people that it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years”.”So in other words, the Republican presidential nominee would have been quite comfortable pulling the plug on any agreement that Bush negotiated. Or, put another way, that agreement that you’re all waving around right now was meaningless unless you had a president who was prepared to do what it took to make that happen. Another reason why I’m very relieved that Obama beat McCain/Palin.

Nothing my friend. You won’t see me cheerleading the World Police campaigns. I don’t need dead young men and woman to feel tough or a good American. We have a lot of heroes sending people off to die.

It is my pleasure to present to you why the ditto heads insipid arguments are particularly ignorant today. See El Rushbo made the decision not to use the old let’s give Bush credit mantra or the old Old Bush ended the war in 2008 nonsense. this is what the big fat buddah had to say:

RUSH: Jake Tapper at ABC News — a lot of other networks are alluding to
this, too — says that Obama at 12:45, about 21 minutes or so from now,
is going to announce the complete drawdown of US troops from Iraq by the
end of this year.  So basically a couple more months, just under two
and half months and we’re out of Iraq in toto.  In other words, war is
over.  Got rid of Mubarak, got rid of Bin Laden, got rid of Khadafy, got
rid of the guy in Tunisia, got rid of Awlaki, war’s over, mission
accomplished, and the base which has abandoned Obama in recent months
theoretically now will be reinvigorated, jazzed, as they say, because
America is getting out of the world.  We’re pulling our military away
from every entanglement except Afghanistan.  This is without doubt part
of the 2012 presidential campaign. 

You smell the desperation in every word as he leaves his followers no cogent talking points for the day.

When Jaba the Rush gets flat footed and this is the best he can come up with be assured it is a fine day for America.

“It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing.
All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. …
Setting a deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure, and
that would be irresponsible,” Bush said in a televised address after the
veto.

http://goo.gl/6dOmw

Well to be fair if you told us what Congress, both sides, wasted money on in the last ten years posters would take your  comments more serious. Or maybe mention Bush’s name and waste. Some of green programs have not faired well, but two unfunded wars, Medicare Drug Card, and extension of tax cuts cost trillions of dollars. Now the question becomes how many rapes and muders could have been prevented if Congess would not waste so much money.

President Obama said what he meant – and meant what he said. 

Hope to see you join OWS then.

So Bush was against timetables before he was for them…

“It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing.
All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. …
Setting a deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure, and
that would be irresponsible,” Bush said in a televised address after the
veto.

http://goo.gl/6dOmw

So Bush was against timetables before he was for them…

“It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing.
All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. …
Setting a deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure, and
that would be irresponsible,” Bush said in a televised address after the
veto.

http://goo.gl/6dOmw

There are many factors that went into this, I’m certain. Clearly both sides have tired of one another. The bottom line is that Obama is making it happen. No one can be certain what the future of Iraq brings, but we can be certain that without the drain of this war on our national treasury, the US stands to benefit significantly.

Well then thank Bush for ending the troops in Iraq.

A toppled violent dictator?

Sorry, sara, but McCain was ready to keep troops for 100 years. That agreement was worthless without a successor who was prepared to pull the plug on this military venture. McCain wasn’t, Obama was. 

Correction: the righties like “facts.” Everyone else likes facts.

Lol!! Winner for the most ignorant post on this article!! Congratulations!!

Finally, an end to the War Bush lied us into!! Now we can start the trial for Bush and Cheney’s War Crimes!!

“America’s war in Iraq will be over,” said Mr. Obama.”

Spoken like a true liberal….what an @$$hole. This was not our war…..I hate this punk more and more everyday!!! What a disgusting vile human being!!!

All Hail the Real Royal Emporer. Well stated my friend. It makes me proud to know that there remain reasonable, analytical American on “the Internets.”

It took only 3 weeks to remove Saddam- try again-

Keep looking, Leedog. I assure you it gets much worse.  

It’s great the troops are coming home. They’ll need the rest before we have to go into Iran and back to Iraq in a couple of years.

Glad you liked it friend! Now answer the question.

CONGRATULATIONS! You just posted the MOST ignorant statement on this site!

You are under the assumption that western war criminals are ever held accountable? Do you think Obama would start an illegal bombardment of Libya without congressional approval if Bush were facing a war tribunal?

There are more contractors in Iraq than military and guess where they recruit from? Yes, the US military is now a private mercenary army and they are not going anywhere in reality.

Like when he said we are going to pass this jobs bill

The question doesn’t even apply to the article??

 Though, Democrats/Obama have done more in their many tax breaks for small businesses (among other things) than Republicons have done, while the Republicons have yet to put out a serious jobs plan!!

You might be right!! I didn’t read Michelle’s or Stoner’s comments!!

or like when he said shovel ready

This was a bad week to be a Republican (actually every week is a bad week to be a Republican)

Occupy Wall Street is supported by the majority of Americans only after a month. Qaddafi killed and not one loss of an American life and President Obama is ending Bush’s tragic blunder, the Iraq war.

Good luck in 2012 Republicans, you are gonna need it.

What part of the media does this story cover? None. 

Mediaite is forgetting that they cover the media and how they report….they figure they might as well just start reporting.

Lol!! I think you meant to say the most truthful!! But I’ll still take the congratulations from you!!

To put it simply, Obama didn’t lie… and Obama didn’t condone the use of torture!!

800+ billion dollars pissed down the drain.  

Fact: Those troops that stay after the end of the
year can go to Iraq courts if Iraq finds that any puppet laws are broken. So
it’s time to leave since Obama didn’t have the balls to challenge that no
troops will be prosecuted in Iraq courts!

what a bunch of ignoramus,s Our troops have to leave Iraq because
U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, Obama has nothing to do with this Except try to claim victory for doing nothing as always.

You’re wrong once again…I ABSOLUTELY meant IGNORANT!

When you have the weapons and the soldiers, legal constraints are irrelevant. We didn’t get a permission slip to invade you ignorant DA.

 Obama is using that as an excuse, but we are ending the occupation because he wants to. If there was a Republican in the White House we would be in Iraq for another 100 years.

That is all Obama is one big excuse of a person . you most likely would like to suck him off to.

Why did Bush’s proposed successor, John McCain, state that he couldn’t see a scenario where we would be removing our troops from Iraq?

It sure as hell does apply!!! Now answer it!!!

Um…
Hello?? We shouldn’t have been there in the FIRST DAMN PLACE!
What is wrong with you people??

For all the tea baggers mentioning that Obama is simply following Bush’s time table, you guys realize that it was Obama’s idea that the Bush administration eventually agreed with, right?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_08/014369.php

STFU, you slandered our troops for 7 years that I know of.

And we learned how to throw shoes……..frizzymstarbaby2

huh?

The Real Royal Emperor 13 hours ago in reply to sarainitaly You owe me an apology, Liar.

The Real Royal Emperor 13 hours ago in reply to Rufus Danegro
I had no idea turnips were grown in Italy.The Real Royal Emperor 13 hours ago in reply to sarainitaly
You just can’t tolerate giving President Obama a bit of credit, can you? It is truly pathological. A deep, deep psychosis. Go Google up some interesting cheese to buy and grate and leave Americans alone!The Real Royal Emperor 13 hours ago in reply to sarainitaly
You and your idiot sisters seem upset that the thousands more Americans won’t be lost in Iraq and billions more dollars won’t be squandered, so I’m not sure what your point is, Tumbleweed.The Real Royal Emperor 13 hours ago in reply to BluebloggerAmen. The Idiot Triplets, Michelle-in-Utah, Sarah N. Italy and Bidet Sybil, it’ll be a cold day in hell when and if you ever get an apology from me. You contribute nothing to this site, and your comments are consistently off topic, irrelevant and violate the terms of commenting on this site. And everyone knows you comment under numerous aliases. And it’s obvious you are Rufus, since your idiotic comments are identical. Quit lying and derailing the threads. People are trying to discuss serious topics. 

Have you tried for a job at Fox?  There is a below the belt element to your posts that would sit right at home there.  Not to mention the gratuitous fawning of the troops – it must please the troops so much.

“There has been no discernable effort by the Iraqi people to overthrow their leadership.”

Wonder why, could it be that even peaceful protesters were machine gunned?  How about the Kurds,  During the Anfal Campaign, males from the age of 13 to 70 were rounded up, shot and buried in mass graves.  It’s estimated that 50,000 to 100,000 men, women and children were slaughtered.  SH gassed 5,000 in Halabja.  Bulldozed the Marshes, burned down their villages and the Marsh Arab population that was once 250,000 was reduces to 30,000.

But there were coups, one in 1995:

Iraq National Congress–One attempt to remove Saddam Hussein(with CIA support) failed in 1995.  In 1996 Saddam’s troops and their Kurdish allies attacked INC bases in northern Iraq, killing 200 supporters and forcing thousands to flee.

In 1996, another of many groups that sought to oust Hussein tried again:  Iraq National Accord–Created by Saudi Intelligence in 1990, it was reorganized in 1996 by the CIA, which saw it as the ideal vehicle for fomenting a coup.  Infiltrated by Saddam Hussein’s agents, it’s networks inside Iraq were smashed.

Here’s a list of some of the opposition groups:

http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/iraq/opposition.htm

Here we have David J. Schiffer,  making the case for the removal of Saddam Hussein….back in 2000:

The Case for Justice in Iraq
David J. Schiffer, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues

Middle East Institute and the Iraq Foundation
http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/2000/09/iraq-000918.htm

Then we had the regime change legislation pass through Congress and signed by President Clinton, but, other than the random bombing, no will to rescue/free the Iraqi people.

The Iraqis deserve more than you will give them.

There was a third party involved in the Status of Forces Agreement…….the UN.  So you see, without the UN involved, Obama won’t be renegotiating nothing.  There was an agreement written into SOFA that the Iraqis could request troops to remain longer than the 12/30/11 pull out date, but obviously they aren’t making that request.

Obama is presiding over an agreement that was signed and sealed prior to his election.  He’s just sitting there watching the agreement being carried out,  btw, according to a write up in yesterday’s National Journal, not a conservative site, the Bamster is not well thought of in the ME and it isn’t because they are afraid of him, they just don’t think he’s up to snuff.

now if you would shut off the loosers on welfare, it would save over one trillion EACH YEAR, then when bringing our troops home prematurely backfires over there we will have the money to go back and finish the job, once someone with some balls is in office

yea, too bad many of our troops lost their lives in vain, the only reason Obama is doing this is because his polls are at the bottom of the pile. he is ruining the country like no other has ever done before

American War Casualties

Civil War….212,938 killed, 281,881 wounded
WWI….53,402 killed, 204,002 wounded
WWII…291,557 killed, 670,846 wounded
Korea..36,686 killed, 92,134 wounded
Vietnam..47,424 killed, 153,303 wounded

Japanese deaths…Hiroshima  90,000 to 166,000    Nagasaki  60,000 to 80,000

Your numbers regarding Iraqi civilians are wrong, so your total killed and injured in Iraq numbers are also wrong.  Even with the data released by WikiLeaks, the body count was increased to around 120,000, 15,000 included in that number are police that are not generally considered civilian.  The civilian deaths are largely attributed to check point killings, targeted assasinations, executions and drive by shootings.  And yes, during times of war innocent civilians, police and military die. that’s not to say wars should never be fought because death will occur.  Research what went on in Iraq before Operation Iraqi Freedom,  your bogus numbers aren’t even close to the death and injuries directly caused by a dictator, an oppressor, a sadistic killer of his own people, Saddam Hussein.

Gee, I wonder why he wouldn’t want to withdraw or set a timetable for withdrawal in the middle of the surge. Why didn’t you post the whole damn thing?  Idiot!

Doesn’t matter how many times you want to spam the boards with your cropped, out of context quote, he was speaking right in the middle of the surge when the democrats wanted to pull out.

That was said while McCain was campaigning in FEBRUARY of 2008.  The SOFA agreement was ratified by the Iraqi Parliament on November 27, 2008, after the US elections and Bush signed the agreement on December 14.

You have the quote, why did you not post the source?  Would it be because McCain made those remarks in JANUARY or FEBRUARY of 2008,  11 months prior to the SOFA agreement being signed?  Iraq’a Parliament didn’t vote on it until the middle of November, after US elections.

break

wow
your name just says it all

Let’s face it! President Obama’s version of “Mission Accomplished” is more appropriate than baby boy Bush’s version! Even though Saddam Hussein is dead and gone, The world is probably better off. We should never have been in Iraq anyhow! This was baby boy Bush’s wettest nightmare! Had we concentrated in Afghanistan, we may have done more good. President Obama said what he meant, and meant what he said!

President Barack Obama announced the final withdrawal on Friday, AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF NEGOTIATIONS TO KEEP THOUSANDS OF TROOPS IN IRAQ TO HELP TRAIN IRAQI FORCES.

Obama administration officials say they wanted to leave thousands of troops for anti-terror operations and to help train Iraqi security forces.  When Iraq refused, Obama had to protect U.S. troops.

Uhm, King?  Leedog?  Rufus?  Expoger?  Anyone?

Yes, we know; this isn’t some secret. The US did want to maintain a presence to help the transition. Iraqis would not give American troops protections and that became a deal-breaker. I think Obama made the right call. 

Are you suggesting that this somehow diminishes the positive aspects of the troop withdrawal? 

I wasn’t aware of the timing of the remarks, but fair enough. But still, the bottom line is this: in the middle of a war, Bush’s successor would not have felt bound to any agreement he negotiated and any possibility — from an immediate withdrawal to a 100 year withdrawal — could have been worked out had the president decided it was in America’s best interest. I’m not suggesting that Bush’s agreement didn’t provide some kind of framework, but ultimately, it was his successor’s decision to honor it. 

In war, these kinds of agreements are fleeting.

No, but the celebratory, “Congratulations to President Obama” should be tempered somewhat by the fact that if the Iraqi government had agreed to Obama’s request we would have troops there for the indefinite future.  And, the reason the Iraqi government had to agree was because a treaty to remove US troops by the end of 2011 was in existence, signed by….well, you just won’t like that part.  So, US troops are finally coming home from Iraq thanks to our former president and at the insistence of the current president of Iraq.

It’s okay, though, President Obama still got Qaddafi, bin Laden and Alwaki all by himself….

“…the celebratory, “Congratulations to President Obama” should be tempered somewhat…”

Fair enough. I’m not trying to overplay the adulation of Obama. He honored the agreement that Bush signed in 2008. (I think it’s also fair to say that in war, agreements are broken all the time and he could just have easily found a way to renegotiate for a shorter or longer stay but chose not to. But I digress…) 

Obama deserves plaudits for having followed through on a campaign pledge to end our involvement in a long, bitter, divisive and obscenely expensive war. That’s all most of us are asking for. Nothing more and nothing less. But there seems to be some kind of disconnect for conservatives between what they hear and what they think they heard. If we say “give Obama a little credit,” you folks hear “crown Obama king and genuflect at his feet.” 

I assure you that the vast majority of his supporters are only asking that you treat him fairly and with appropriate respect.

Okay.  I have said, and will repeat, I am glad Qaddafi is dead, I am glad bin Laden is dead, I am glad the troops are coming home from Iraq and I credit President Obama for the role he played in these events.  

Obviously I have no proof of this, since there was no internet then, but I also praised Bush 41 when the Berlin Wall fell while tempering my praise with acknowledgement to Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower and most especially Truman.  I would like to see just a little of that here.

Well played.

We’re in total agreement. 

Give me a break! This is purely political in every sense. Obimbo’s approval rating is in the toilet and if he thought it would help, he’d personally deport his welfare eating aunt faster than you can say “second term”!!

Man this is all bullshit that i ever seen and i dont think that any of this is true.Obama as we all know always says something and doesnt do it and thats why we will so no longer have him as are president and i really dont think that he cares for anybody in the United States of what i wish i can still call America..I hope he gets dis elected.I cant belive that he made it so long with out getting shot its crazy how they shot kennedy but noone shot obama..lol..o well i guess thats just how it is when you stand behind evil always the bad guy stays to produce such wickedness .

Obama is never going to bring back the troops they will probably be there for the next couple of years ,ihave a buddy of mine they just recently sent i think its all wrong what are we fighting for?This is a spirital war were Jesus walked were fighting on what are these peoples problems when it rains he crys his tears flood are earth (AND HE IS COMING BACK SOON)

So, it’s about oil? Wasn’t that the same mantra the Left was shouting about the Iraq war? What was the U.S. gain in Libya? How are the people different? The simple truth is, they are nearly identical in importance to the U.S. which is very marginal. What Obimbo credit are you talking about? The credit he should get for bare-faced lying about NOT having troops on the ground in Libya?! The credit he should get for involving us in another war? We do the Libyian people a disservice? What the hell is that suppose to mean?

Afghanistan is America’s longest war.

Obimbo preaches the negative aspect of U.S. Colonialism, then involves us in foreign wars. Obimbo is about as two-faced as they come!

Am I missing something here? I thought it was Libyans that got him, not Obimbo! To even suggest this moron had anything to do with it is laughable!

I paid my student loan myself, it’s called, being responsible! But, you hang in there with the bottom-feeders because, as your entitlement numbers grow (47%) eventually you’ll outnumber us, the taxpayers and you can write your own check. Of course, there won’t be anyone around to cash it because, there won’t be anyone developing industry because, they had to cover your lack of responsibility.

But, look at who’s fallowing Bush’s programs. Isn’t that….yes it is…it’s Obimbo!! Great job, American troops!

Obama   is “withdrawing” becuse the Iraqis don’t want us there any more. The “withdraw” is actually a boot in the butt from Iraq.

They would no grant soldiers immunity from prosecution and rest assured….many would be falsely accused and tried.

Of course, Beelzobama will take credit in order to send a tingle up the
legs of his far left peaceniks…..and …well…..he just relishes the
endorphin activity that accompanies it.
I am surprised he didn’t actuall pull them out long ago being the chicken-shit poosey he is and as another kiss on the ass for Muslims world-wide.

Another successful war – brought to you by both BushDrunks.  Our accomplishments were/are astounding.
Stand proud.  Bring it on!!!

If Iraq’s military cannot defend their country now, they never will. Our troops get 90 to 120 days basic training, Our troops have been training their military for 9 years. It’s way past time we left Iraq. 

Bring the troops home and let Iraq settle it’s own problems, we shouldn’t have been there in the first place. We wasted lives and over 1 trillion dollars because we couldn’t mind our own business.Iraq was never a threat to us. Iran is no threat either, they don’t even have an air force and their missiles can’t reach the U.S. If they tried to attack our air force and navy would overwhelm them in no time.A squadron of B-2′s could take out all their nuclear plants in 15 minutes or less.

Iraq is doomed because we interfered and destroyed their military and now spend millions rebuilding it. It doesn’t make any sense, all the lives we lost and money we wasted for what ?  We gained nothing and the middle east is worse off now than before we attacked Iraq, at least Iraq kept Iran from expanding.

We should have never been there in the first place. We have no business getting involved in a religious war in a foreign country, thats their problem, not ours.

 Thank you President Obama. For whatever reason it will be great to have our kids home.

 So do you want more of our troops to lose their lives in vain?