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  1. Chillbilly

    Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

    @ScottPM

    Clearly the context is the ten year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Maybe you should ponder the irony of blaming Obama with a knee-jerked reaction.

  2. Jase99

    Jase99 said, 3 months ago

    He had a lot of helpers.

  3. avarner

    avarner said, 3 months ago

    Bush was obviously a lousy President.

    Without him, someone completely un-qualified would never have been considered “better.” These two make me long for Clinton…

  4. David

    David said, 3 months ago

    He should be carrying a copy of Tomas Young’s letter as well

  5. Omnius

    Omnius said, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the wasted $2.2 trillion on the worthless Iraq War, war criminals bush and cheney’s war of choice. Not to mention the over 4,000 Americans and 185,000 Iraqis they murdered for their oil lust.

  6. Nos Nevets

    Nos Nevets said, 3 months ago

    It’s 1 war, 1 enemy.
    The enemy still knows it.
    We still don’t.
    World War Three.

  7. antiquetracman

    antiquetracman said, 3 months ago

    You could add in Wilson, FDR, Truman, Johnson, Obama to get a complete picture. Lies and deception seem to be Obama’s stock n trade. Debt is definately Obama since we are several trillions in debt. Libs can spin it anyway they wish but the facts prove them to be liars.

  8. mikefive

    mikefive said, 3 months ago

    @TimeWeaver

    “Let’s talk about the illegal war in iraq (sic),”
    •
    Although I’ve seen the term “illegal war” attached to the second Iraq war, I have not been able to find any country’s executive or judicial declaration on the war’s legality. Kofi Annan says the war was illegal. The AG’s of Australia and England say it was legal, The Davids report (Brussels) says illegal. I’m sure that these opinions are well thought out, but they are just that, opinions. If you know of any country’s official declaration on the legality or illegality of the second Iraq war, I would like to read said declaration. But, please, please don’t send me to any more opinion pieces.

  9. grenjello

    grenjello said, 3 months ago

    I like how the"main stream media" always fails to mention that the reason that debt went up under Obama is that unlike his predisessor he put the war debt “on the books” instead of hiding it from us.

  10. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @TimeWeaver

    Back up a second. “Illegal WAR”? First, war was never declared (yeah another 10 yr “conflict”). Second the President was authorized to use force in Iraq by a bipartisan vote in Congress and thus it was a “LEGAL” action.

    Still, the US has no business and never did have ANY need to invade and occupy Iraq. So why didn’t Obama bring all the troops home the day after his first inauguration?

  11. ahab

    ahab said, 3 months ago

    @mikefive

    Bush can visit the Hague, and under go war criminal proceedings. Would you accept a world courts determination?

  12. ahab

    ahab said, 3 months ago

    @mikefive

    I find it interesting that the same lawyers who were unsupportive of Yoo’s legal justifications for torture under President Bush, managed to write legal supports for Obama’s use of drone assassinations. Lawyer’s “opinions” are the justification for heinous acts, just as politician’s opinions are. So you should consider opinion pieces from TimeWeaver germane to the discussion, if the source is reasonable. The Iraq war was unprovoked, and stated under dubious circumstance, with fabricated WMD’s, and has severely damaged our country.

  13. ahab

    ahab said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Bruce, reeeely?How many months do you think it took to fully deploy those troops? How easy do you think it is to recover a standing army in a hot zone? How easy do you think it is to take over running a government in full economic collapse, fighting two wars?

  14. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @ahab

    Not the point Ahab. The discussion was “legal/illegal” war.

    If your stand is that something is illegal, why do you continue to do it when you become the one in charge of it?

    Obama used the plan already in place created by the war criminal bush. does that make obama a war criminal as well?

    But yes I know the logistics and how complicated it is.

  15. Simon_Jester

    Simon_Jester said, 3 months ago

    @TimeWeaver

    No, those were BILL CLINTON’S fault

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