When Senator Obama was running for the Presidency, one of his campaign promises was that the was going to get the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan. After taking office, he actively set about accomplishing these goals, announcing his intentions to withdraw all troops from both countries. There was some vacillation with the Iraq withdrawal... all troops, leave 3,000, leave 10,000, etc. Regardless of what you think about al-Maliki, he did request some type of security agreement, signalling that he was not certain his forces could maintain any peace after we got out.
Well, without regurgitating details, we got out anyway and Obama was quick to trumpet that fact. When things started to fall apart, we told Iraq to handle their own problems. When I.S.I.S. assembled in the Iraq desert for the purpose of training and building strength of an Islamic Jihad, we closed our eyes. Over this last week end into the weekend, it became apparent to anyone and everyone that we had to do something about the situation, whether we wanted to or not.
With 40,000 Christians sitting on a mountain top starving to death, Obama had absolutely no choice but to take some action. Saturday, Obama addressed the nation before taking off to Martha's Vineyard on vacation. In response to a question, Obama got his back up and insisted that he was not to blame and that it was not his decision to withdraw from Iraq, but that the Iraqis themselves wanted us out; he said he is frustrated by those who argue that his actions have contributed to the current dismal state of affairs in Iraq. “That entire analysis is bogus, and it’s wrong,” he said. “It
often gets peddled around here by people who are often trying to defend
policies that they themselves made.”
Once again, Obama refuses to take responsibility for his actions; this time, he blames the Iraqi government. What a guy. He's a real cool cucumber, that's for sure.
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