Bush deserves credit for the "victory." Whatever victory may mean in Senator McMaverick's mind.
And so began the latest barrage of anti-Obama rhetoric from the GOP crowd. House Minority Leader John Boehner jumped into the act as well in a prebuttal to President Obama's address to the nation from the Oval Office yesterday regarding the end of combat operations in Iraq.
At least Boehner was sober enough to omit the word "win" or "victory" because, really, what did we win?“Some leaders who opposed, criticized and fought tooth and nail to stop the surge strategy now proudly claim credit for the results,” Boehner will say in remarks prepared for delivery to the American Legion’s 92nd national convention in Milwaukee. “Today we mark not the defeat those voices anticipated — but progress.”
But hey, if these people want credit, sure, I'll give them credit for the surge working. Who knows if the Sunni Awakening was just convenient timing when the surge took place... well, the Pentagon did pay them to fight Al-Qaeda, but still...
And let's see, why were we in Iraq in the first place? Oh, right, because of a ginned up excuse to retaliate for 9/11, something Iraq had nothing to do with, no matter how much George W. Bush and Dick Cheney lied about it and said the opposite. But then it was about removing that evil dictator Saddam Hussein and stopping him from using weapons of mass destruction that to this day haven't been found. And then when that excuse failed, it was to bring democracy to the Middle East.
But sure, we'll give Bush all the credit in the world for a last ditch effort and getting the surge right after fucking up the first 6½ years of the "war on terror." We're saving Muslims there to discriminate against them here. Great job, Republicans.
....Congratulations.
Let's take a look at some of those highlights from BushCo.
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over 4,400 dead and over 300,000 thousand wounded,hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead,Iran grew stronger and now has a heavy influence on the Iraqi "government", torture,violating the Geneva conventions which made us look like the real barbarians, never getting Bin laden and at a cost of over one trillion dollars of borrowed money.
Thank you so much Pres.Bush and i'd also like to thank Pres.Obama and Congress for giving everybody in the Bush administration a free pass and never lifting a finger to investigate why we got in that fucking war to begin with.The very least Obama could've said was that it was a war of choice...the wrong choice but then again hes no Truman and hes certainly no FDR.
Just like when Ford pardoned Nixon,any president can now violate any law and the constitution hes sworn to protect knowing the guy who follows him wont go after him.God Bless America!HA!Why the hell should he?
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