President (then senator) Obama's speech on folly of Iraq War decision

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Transcript: Obama's Speech Against The Iraq War : NPR
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What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

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[Stephanie]

so

He was a coward then as he is now

everything he's touched has hurt someone

 

[Stephanie]

SNIP:

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...” (The Gettysburg Address)

No life is more wasted than one lost in vain.


After the U.S. military battled heroically to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and to eliminate the possibility that it might become a staging area for terrorist attacks, the Obama administration has created a vacuum now being filled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an Al Qaeda affiliate, which has overrun Mosul and Fallujah, cities liberated by American soldiers. ISIS now threatens Baghdad.

If Western nations don’t combine to use their moral, monetary, religious, intelligence and, yes, military power to stop this onslaught against freedom, we will lose it and never get it back.

The administration’s non-policy policy proclaiming the war over, has given ISIS a green light to establish another terrorist state in the Middle East. Following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, al-Qaida will likely have two states from which it can plan and execute new assaults on America, Israel, Britain and other “infidel” nations. Having declared the war(s) over and al-Qaida “on the run,” President Obama responds with empty rhetoric about his national security team studying what to do, then leaves for a trip that will end on a golf course in Palm Springs.
Vice President Biden once called Iraq one of the president’s “great achievements.”

On Friday, the president announced the U.S. would not send military forces back to Iraq unless the Iraqi government finds a way to bridge sectarian differences. Even then, he suggested, military power alone won’t bring stability to the country. Basically, the president said, “Iraq, you’re on your own.”

Imagine what the families of dead and wounded U.S. soldiers think about the sudden resurgence of al-Qaida in Iraq. They were told their sons and daughters died in a noble cause. According to “The Costs of War Project” at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, “The wars begun in 2001 have been tremendously painful for millions of people … each additional month and year of war adds to that toll.” The Rock River Times writes, “Coalition deaths in Iraq totaled more than 4,700, with the United States sustaining more than 4,480 deaths through the Iraq War’s official end Dec. 15, 2011. More than 32,000 other U.S. troops were wounded in Iraq, while more than 134,000 Iraqi civilians were killed during the course of the official war.”

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Iraq crisis: Did Obama's foreign policy blunders sow seeds of disaster? | Fox News

 

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Imagine what we could have done here on the home front w/ $2-3 TRILLION? Energy, transportation, investment, education, etc...

INSTEAD, Bush II listened to Bill Kristol (current employee of Fox News & Founder & CEO of PNAC) & the neocons in his cabinet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projec...ntury#PNAC_role_in_promoting_invasion_of_Iraq

PNAC role in promoting invasion of Iraq

Commentators from divergent parts of the political spectrum––such as Democracy Now! and American Free Press, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams and former Republican Congressmen Pete McCloskey and Paul Findley––voiced their concerns about the influence of the PNAC on the decision by President George W. Bush to invade Iraq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#Persons_associated_with_the_PNAC

Project directors [as listed on the PNAC website:]

William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman

Robert Kagan, Co-founder

bbl, going out to do some "stuff" IRL

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama, the Prophet of Islam, has handed entire nations over to the Islamist Jihadists

Praise be His Holy Name

 

[Mr. H.]

The mere elections of Obama have sown the seeds of disaster not only for our Nation but the world as a whole.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Imagine what we could have done here on the home front w/ $2-3 TRILLION? Energy, transportation, investment, education, etc...

Um Obama racked up $7 Trillion in new debt, what did he spend it on, pakololo?

 

[Katzndogz]

Iraq was standing, until obama.

 

[Stephanie]

It's been awful watching Iraq fall after all our blood, sweat and tears to free a country and their people

this administration make's me sick