NotfooledbyW
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The bimbo anchor at Fox Newe really messed up when she asked this question: Iraq "could become a new haven for terrorists to plot attacks "against the United States" if we withdrew all the forces. Isn't that exactly what happened?""
Jen Psaki debates Megyn Kelly on Panetta s criticism of Obama s Iraq policy Fox News
Iraq has not become "a new haven for terrorists" and will not ever be a safe place for the IS terrorists to operate unchallenged by the Iraqi people and government and all the coalition partners that have engaged them.
But hey the book is out on the shelves and if that takes exaggerating what the IS terrorists have accomplished and Fox News will help in that endeavor why not go for it Leon.
Panetta and all others were also wrong in 2011 because the long term damage from the US being Maliki's Shiite army and Air Force trying to help him crush Sunni non-terrorist unrest in Anbar certainly certainly could be speculated to have turned out worse than the given circumstances we know today. It would be harder to have achieved Maliki's non-violent departure had we invested 25,000 combat ground troops fighting on Maliki's side. We could have helped produce a Shiite version of Saddam Hussein and been stuck with that kind mess now.
At least Iraqis are coming together and committed to ridding their territory of the IS terrorists.
The terrorists are shrinking in Iraq as we speak. That is not a haven.
Abadi ISIL shrink on Iraqi ground
KELLY: It's not Megyn Kelly arguing it. It's Leon Panetta who is in a much better position to know. He talks about how, "I voiced to the President that this country could become a new haven for terrorists to plot attacks against the United States" if we withdrew all the forces. Isn't that exactly what happened?
Jen Psaki debates Megyn Kelly on Panetta s criticism of Obama s Iraq policy Fox News
Iraq has not become "a new haven for terrorists" and will not ever be a safe place for the IS terrorists to operate unchallenged by the Iraqi people and government and all the coalition partners that have engaged them.
But hey the book is out on the shelves and if that takes exaggerating what the IS terrorists have accomplished and Fox News will help in that endeavor why not go for it Leon.
Panetta and all others were also wrong in 2011 because the long term damage from the US being Maliki's Shiite army and Air Force trying to help him crush Sunni non-terrorist unrest in Anbar certainly certainly could be speculated to have turned out worse than the given circumstances we know today. It would be harder to have achieved Maliki's non-violent departure had we invested 25,000 combat ground troops fighting on Maliki's side. We could have helped produce a Shiite version of Saddam Hussein and been stuck with that kind mess now.
At least Iraqis are coming together and committed to ridding their territory of the IS terrorists.
The terrorists are shrinking in Iraq as we speak. That is not a haven.
Abadi ISIL shrink on Iraqi ground