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Old 06-12-2014, 01:01 PM
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Good. Let Iran support Al Maliki. He's their boy.
That is short sighted. Our greatest threat is Al Qaeda.

We should at least hit them from the air.
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Old 06-12-2014, 01:02 PM
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You guys do like to engage in revisionist history. Remember that Iraq was going to be on the "great achievements" of Obama's administration. Joe Biden said so, so it must be true.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...dministration/

And then Gibbs doubled - down on it:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...ert-gibbs.html
You seem to have conveniently forgotten that Obama took the unpopular position of voting against the Iraq War in the face of Dubya's propaganda campaign.
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Old 06-12-2014, 01:11 PM
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That is short sighted. Our greatest threat is Al Qaeda.

We should at least hit them from the air.
Haven't we been hitting Al Qaeda all along? It's become a game of Wack a Mole but we most certainly have been killing Al Qaeda leaders at every chance.

Maybe you're advocating something bigger? I would be curious as to what you have in mind.
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Old 06-12-2014, 01:17 PM
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That is short sighted. Our greatest threat is Al Qaeda.

We should at least hit them from the air.
I hear ya, but it was his military that threw down their weapons and uniforms and bolted. Unless and until we are willing to engage in yet another "surge" on the ground in Iraq, it would just be pissing in the wind - probably killing a bunch of civilians and turning even greater support to Al Qaeda. There is no elegant and easy solution to the clusterf*ck that is Iraq.
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Old 06-12-2014, 01:27 PM
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Bush broke it. Like Colin Powell said you break it you own it.
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Old 06-12-2014, 01:33 PM
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You seem to have conveniently forgotten that Obama took the unpopular position of voting against the Iraq War in the face of Dubya's propaganda campaign.
Yeah. He voted against it before he wanted to take credit for it.
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Yeah. He voted against it before he wanted to take credit for ending it.
Fixed it for ya Mike.
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Old 06-12-2014, 02:28 PM
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Fixed it for ya Mike.
Yet its Iran coming to the rescue.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/iran-...ces-1402592470
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Old 06-12-2014, 03:18 PM
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Haven't we been hitting Al Qaeda all along? It's become a game of Wack a Mole but we most certainly have been killing Al Qaeda leaders at every chance.

Maybe you're advocating something bigger? I would be curious as to what you have in mind.
Better than folding hands and doing nothing.

remember Al Qaeda pledge to hit us any and everywhere.
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