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Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never be accused of just not giving a damn. Yet that is exactly the case with Obama. He just doesn't give a damn. While US soldiers are still dying in Iraq, Obama did his best to take credit for ending combat operations. And used his speech as a opportunity to show off his new Oval Office decor. The level of tone deafness involved in using a wartime speech to show off your new office furnishings while most ...
It's a little hard to understand why Iraqi leftists and union activists were willing to see the 2003 U.S. invasion as a step towards democracy. But most saw ending the Saddam Hussein regime as the precondition for any change. U.S. troops moved into Basra from ..... Meanwhile, the U.S. military took over the former British base in Basra, converting it to a center for helping oil company executives and personnel begin operations in Iraq. While Musawi faced her threats alone ...
David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, argues in a recent column in The National Post, a Canadian daily, that a Saddam Hussein regime left intact in 2003 would have become far more dangerous due to new wealth from rising ... script of U.S. soldiers being greeted as liberators. Survey after survey has showed Iraqis more or less evenly split on whether the 2003 invasion was right or wrong. (In a 2009 survey, only 28 percent said that it was "absolutely wrong. ...
Reid made this comment, President Bush had been pursuing a failed, stay-the-course strategy that had cost thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. Iraq appeared to be on the verge of a sectarian civil war. .... He is obviously smarter than all of us combined. I will submit to his superior intellect. Now, I'm going to take my magic carpet and go to lunch with a very large rabbit, after which I will click my heels 3 times and repeat "There's no place ...
KURTZ: President Bush, in his speech, finally said mistakes were made, and he took responsibility for them. Is that a tacit admission, after all the criticism of the coverage by Dick Cheney and by Donald Rumsfeld and others, that the media reports have basically been right all along about Iraq .... The State Department is telling Congress that it intends to phase out a network of embassy branch offices in Iraq as soon as three years after the U.S. military leaves in 2011. ...
After the mujahedeen took Kabul in 1992, Hekmatyar's forces rained US-supplied missiles and rockets on that city ? killing at least 2000 civilians ? until the new government agreed to give him the post of prime minister. Osama bin Laden was a close associate .... Bin Laden only became a ?terrorist? in US eyes when he fell out with the Saudi royal family over its decision to allow more than 540000 US troops to be stationed on Saudi soil following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. ...
Democrats and advocates are rounding up signers, and will deliver the letter to Obama once the numbers climb, likely after Congress returns later this month. The original cosigners are Grijalva, John Conyers (D-MI), Dan Maffei (D-NY), Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH), Chellie Pingree ..... The SDUSA letter urged Bush to commit to "maintaining substantial U.S. military forces in Iraq for as long as may be required to ensure a stable, representative regime is in place and functioning. ...
At the weekend, he took a special inaugural train to Washington, just as Lincoln did. After winning, he invited Americans to release 'our better angels,' paraphrasing a remark Lincoln made in his second inauguration speech. ... He faces the self-fulfilling 'war on terror' and the poisonous mess the Bush administration has left in the Middle East. Will Obama change U.S. policy on these issues - risking the wrath of Americans who believed the lies they were told - or merely ...
While US soldiers are still dying in Iraq, Obama did his best to take credit for ending combat operations. And used his speech as a opportunity to show off his new Oval Office decor. The level of tone deafness involved in using a wartime speech .... And after over a year and a half in office, Obama has learned no wisdom and gained no perspective. He is still the same arrogant, touchy and insecure celebrity that he was in 2008. He has not become ennobled, but embittered. ...
and the date of the memo, 23 July 2002, contradicts the official White House position that President Bush did not finally decide to carry out the invasion of March 2003 until after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell presented the administration's case to the United Nations Security Council, ..... Iraq: Options Paper, prepared by the Overseas & Defence Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, dated 8 March 2002, describing options available for pursuing regime change in Iraq ...