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Obama Presidency ‘Bogus And Wrong’ As He Dishonestly Claims It’s Not His Fault He Abandoned Iraq After Bush Secured Victory There

August 13, 2014

For those of you who don’t have time to read this full article and for the quickest possible proof that Barack Obama is a liar, just read this article dated February 2, 2009 (which I cite below if the link is ever broken) and tell me that the decision to bail out of Iraq wasn’t Obama’s baby and Obama’s baby ALONE.  You can also read the prediction of this general who said in 2011 – the very time when Obama was claiming so much credit for ending the war – that Obama’s pullout from Iraq was an “absolute disaster.”  And yu can digest the fact that Obama had the leader of ISIS in detention and FREED HIM.

Now, you tell me that Barack Hussein Obama is not a demon-possessed liar without honesty, shame, integrity, virtue, or decency of any kind.  And reveal YOURSELF to be a demon-possessed liar without honesty, shame, integrity, virtue, or decency of any kind.

For the rest of you, let’s introduce Barack Obama the pathologically dishonest liar and coward at length:

Let’s start with the present and work our way back to expose Barack Obama for the giant liar and disgrace of a human being that he truly is:

QUESTION: Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq? And does it give you pause as the U.S. — is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government. In order for us to maintain troops in Iraq, we needed the invitation of the Iraqi government and we needed assurances that our personnel would be immune from prosecution if, for example, they were protecting themselves and ended up getting in a firefight with Iraqis, that they wouldn’t be hauled before an Iraqi judicial system.

And the Iraqi government, based on its political considerations, in part because Iraqis were tired of a U.S. occupation, declined to provide us those assurances. And on that basis, we left. We had offered to leave additional troops. So when you hear people say, do you regret, Mr. President, not leaving more troops, that presupposes that I would have overridden this sovereign government that we had turned the keys back over to and said, you know what, you’re democratic, you’re sovereign, except if I decide that it’s good for you to keep 10,000 or 15,000 or 25,000 Marines in your country, you don’t have a choice — which would have kind of run contrary to the entire argument we were making about turning over the country back to Iraqis, an argument not just made by me, but made by the previous administration.

So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq.

Having said all that, if in fact the Iraqi government behaved the way it did over the last five, six years, where it failed to pass legislation that would reincorporate Sunnis and give them a sense of ownership; if it had targeted certain Sunni leaders and jailed them; if it had alienated some of the Sunni tribes that we had brought back in during the so-called Awakening that helped us turn the tide in 2006 — if they had done all those things and we had had troops there, the country wouldn’t be holding together either. The only difference would be we’d have a bunch of troops on the ground that would be vulnerable. And however many troops we had, we would have to now be reinforcing, I’d have to be protecting them, and we’d have a much bigger job. And probably, we would end up having to go up again in terms of the number of grounds troops to make sure that those forces were not vulnerable.

So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.

For starters, this worthless turd of a president passes more buck than the most frequented ATM machine on planet earth.  The man has been president for six years, and he has YET to take responsibility for ONE thing that’s happened during his failed presidency.

Okay.  You heard it from Obama.  He says he didn’t want to end the war but the end of the war was FORCED upon him and he’s a victim of Bush and he’s a victim of al-Malaki and he’s just a victim.  He never wanted to end the war in Iraq.  He never wanted to get our troops out.

LIAR!!!  Just watch this video and tell me that this demon-possessed man didn’t say JUST THE DAMN OPPOSITE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN:

The Freebeacon rightly puts it this way:

It was an applause line during almost every campaign address made by President Obama in 2012: “I promised to end the war in Iraq, and I did.”

Now, he’s backing off.

President Obama ordered a full troop withdrawal from Iraq, which was completed in December 2011. But the country did not stabilize, as was predicted by Obama and key members of his administration. Instead, it has descended into greater chaos with the violent al Qaeda offshoot ISIL threatening to take over the country.

The only thing they got wrong was this notion that Obama’s “backing off.”  He is OUTRIGHT LYING.

Another site – the IJReview – gets it more right.  Their title nails it: “As ISIS Terrorists Bury Women & Children Alive, Obama Lies That Ending Iraq War ‘Wasn’t His Idea’”  And they point out more crystal clear footage of Obama in the past to document what a lying hypocrite weasel he truly is:

It’s pathological. Saturday morning, President Obama followed up on a message that he had uttered a few months ago: Withdrawing from Iraq wasn’t his idea.

This is what the president responded after being asked: “Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq? And does it give you pause as the U.S. — is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?”

What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision…

So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq.

Does the president realize that the U.S. went to war in Iraq and has a vested stake in that nation’s security? The president doesn’t get “told” by the post-Hussein government whether or not the U.S. will protect Iraq from al Qaeda or other terrorists. Period.

Here is what the president said along the same lines in June 2014, when asked about maintaining a residual force in Iraq (hint: it’s someone else’s fault):

Never mind that it was a campaign pledge in 2007 to “end the war” in Iraq within 16 months of being in office. And by the way, “you can take that to the bank”:

Never mind that his backtracking began almost immediately after he was elected. Here is Obama circa December 2008:

“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary — likely to be necessary — to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq.”

The president then “spiked the football” about single-handedly pulling troops out of Iraq in 2011. Here is what he said, followed by video of his speech:

“I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and that’s what we’ve done. As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq.”

Now here is the reality of what’s going on in Iraq, since the U.S. left a gaping power vacuum for ISIS terrorists (aka “al Qaeda’s JV squad“). Breitbart picked up on the story, which originally came via Reuters:

Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq’s human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday.

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.

The ISIS terrorists told the Yazidis to convert to Islam or die. In at least some cases, those who “convert” are still killed in a horrific manner. This follows upon weeks of gruesome reports of Christians and other minorities being killed in awful ways, such as by crucifixion and decapitation.

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As President Obama takes yet another vacation at an incredibly inopportune time for America (not to mention for the Iraqis being summarily executed by terrorists), even the media seem to be noticing that this “Commander-in-Chief” is not only weak, but incapable of taking responsibility.

Maybe they should have noticed that while they were promoting a community organizer with the gift of gab to leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

Update: Joel Gehrke at National Review Online wrote in-depth about the “it’s all Bush’s fault” rejoinder (re: the “status of forces” agreement):

A report in The New Yorker showed how President Obama failed to secure the status of forces agreement necessary to leave the troops in place after 2011.

Imagine that – the buck actually stops with Obama.

But even this doesn’t go quite far enough in exposing Obama.  I mean, for instance, it doesn’t provide the now infamous quote from Obama’s VP Joe Biden:

“I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”

So we have it on documented historical record that Obama and his administration weren’t just claiming credit for ending the war and pulling all our troops out; they were claiming credit for the safe, stable, peaceful Iraq that had been left behind as Bush left office.

We’ve got Obama’s own words to confirm that FACT from 2011 when he was pulling all our troops out:

“This strategy is grounded in a clear and achievable goal shared by the Iraqi people and the American people: an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant.”

and:

“[W]e will work to promote an Iraqi government that is just, representative, and accountable, and that provides neither support nor safe haven to terrorists.”

But again, this still doesn’t get to the gist of Obama’s rhetoric now, that he tried to leave troops behind but al-Malaki wouldn’t have it (so Obama of course being a true pathological liar claimed over and over and over again to the American people that it was his idea even when it wasn’t and boasted of the success of something that has now so wildly failed it is beyond unreal).  No, for that, you have to go back even further.

Read this article that was written in the first few days following Obama’s taking office and YOU TELL ME WHO WANTED TO PULL U.S. TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND WHOSE DAMN IDEA IT WAS:

US-IRAQ: Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 2009 (IPS) – CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21.

But Obama informed Gates, Petraeus and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen that he wasn’t convinced and that he wanted Gates and the military leaders to come back quickly with a detailed 16-month plan, according to two sources who have talked with participants in the meeting.

Obama’s decision to override Petraeus’s recommendation has not ended the conflict between the president and senior military officers over troop withdrawal, however. There are indications that Petraeus and his allies in the military and the Pentagon, including Gen. Ray Odierno, now the top commander in Iraq, have already begun to try to pressure Obama to change his withdrawal policy.

A network of senior military officers is also reported to be preparing to support Petraeus and Odierno by mobilising public opinion against Obama’s decision.

Petraeus was visibly unhappy when he left the Oval Office, according to one of the sources. A White House staffer present at the meeting was quoted by the source as saying, “Petraeus made the mistake of thinking he was still dealing with George Bush instead of with Barack Obama.”

Petraeus, Gates and Odierno had hoped to sell Obama on a plan that they formulated in the final months of the Bush administration that aimed at getting around a key provision of the U.S.-Iraqi withdrawal agreement signed envisioned re-categorising large numbers of combat troops as support troops. That subterfuge was by the United States last November while ostensibly allowing Obama to deliver on his campaign promise.

I cited Obama blathering about how he ended the war in Iraq from 2011.  Here is the prediction of a key US general at the same time Obama was patting himself on the back:

Key general: Iraq pullout plan a ‘disaster’
Others echo call for strength against Iran
By Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times
Sunday, October 23, 2011

President Obama’s decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an “absolute disaster” that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian “strangling,” said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war.

Retired Army Gen. John M. Keane was at the forefront of persuading President George W. Bush to scuttle a static counterinsurgency strategy and replace it with 30,000 reinforcements and a more activist, street-by-street counterterrorism tactic.

Today, even with that strategy producing a huge drop in daily attacks, Gen. Keane bluntly told The Washington Times that the United States again is losing.

“I think it’s an absolute disaster,” said Gen. Keane, who advised Gen. David H. Petraeus when he was top Iraq commander. “We won the war in Iraq, and we’re now losing the peace.”

U.S. troops will be vacating Iraq at a time when neither Baghdad’s counterterrorism skills nor its abilities to protect against invasion are at levels needed to fully protect the country, say analysts long involved in the nearly nine-year war.

“Forty-four hundred lives lost,” Gen. Keane said. “Tens of thousands of troops wounded. Over a couple hundred thousand Iraqis killed. We liberated 25 million people. There is only one Arab Muslim country that elects its own government, and that is Iraq.

“We should be staying there to strengthen that democracy, to let them get the kind of political gains they need to get and keep the Iranians away from strangling that country. That should be our objective, and we are walking away from that objective.”

You tell me who history proves was right and who history proved was catastrophically WRONG.

I pointed this out previously citing world opinion of Israel as my example: the Democrat Party is the party of demon-possession.  You can’t be this stupid, this blind and this depraved on your own because God created us with rational minds capable of seeing truth.  Satan is behind the Democrat Party and that is why such idiocy has become America’s policy.

The decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq was the morally idiotic, demon-possessed decision of one fool: Barack Hussein Obama.  PERIOD.

And Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are now LYING to claim anything otherwise.  Period.

Get this one: Obama actually FREED the man who is the leader of ISIS as it murders its way across Syria, Iraq and now Lebanon.

BOMBSHELL: ISIS leader was US prisoner. Obama released him.

The US government once offered a reward of “up to $10 million” for the capture of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He was captured and interned at Camp Bucca.

In 2009, Barack Obama shut down the camp and freed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Since 2011, Barack Obama has been providing money and support to Sunni Jihadists in Syria, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was based.

Many of the Sunni Jihadists fighting in ISIS have directly benefits from US money and arms.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to be the mastermind behind a series of large scale jail breaks in Iraq that have freed about 2,000 Jihadists over the past year.

His present army stretches from The middle of northern Syria to northern and central Iraq. The core of his army is made up of former FSA Jihadists that received money and weapons from the USA, freed Iraqi veteran Jihadists, and Sunni militias that are now flocking to join him.

That is simply documented history.

We literally have it from the sneering, arrogant lips of the Obama administration PUKES that Bush wouldn’t have done this insanely evil thing and that General Petraeus wouldn’t have done this insanely evil thing and that the Pentagon didn’t want to do this insanely evil thing, but Obama is the Pharaoh-god-king now so you’ll have to realize that a god among men has taken over and just bow down before him.

Barack Obama is a LIAR.  Democrats are LIARS.  If you vote for them you will one day very soon find yourself burning in hell forever and ever and ever.  And it will be a GOOD thing that you are burning in hell because of all the wickedness that you perpetuated by keeping these truth-murdering thugs in office.

And now this pathological COWARD doesn’t have the courage, or the integrity or the decency or the honesty or the virtue or ANY other positive moral trait to just tell the American people the truth: that he well and truly FUBARed Iraq after he FUBARed in Syria and for that matter after he FUBARed in Libya and before that in Egypt – and will can all already see that Obama will ultimately FUBAR in Afghanistan – to ignite the entire Middle East into a conflagration that mark my words will end at Armageddon.

When Iran – a rabid Islamic totalitarian fascist state that literally believes it will be serving Allah by forcing the last days to come with an orgy of violence and bloodshed – gets the nuclear bomb, it will be ENTIRELY Barack Obama’s and the Democrat Party’s fault.

It is stunning to see the degree that Obama has brought America to its ruin while we sit like the proverbial frogs in the pot of water that is beginning to slowly come to a boil.

Democrats are now demanding Republicans explain how they would fix the mess that Obama created for America.  And the only answer is to invent a time machine so we could go back to 2008 and hunt down every single Democrat with dogs and burn them alive.  Because Obama has so obliterated all options in Iraq and all American credibility in the world that both are broken beyond repair.

If we had kept troops in Iraq the way we kept troops in Okinawa and Europe after World War II and in South Korea after the Korean War, we would not be in this mess.  ISIS would not have been able to gain a foothold.  Iraq would still be the stable, safe, peaceful country Obama and Biden boasted about.  But no.  Obama failed.  Had Obama showed some resolve in Syria after his cowardly retreat from his “red line,” had Obama armed the pro-Democrat Syrian rebels when Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham were BEGGING him to do, ISIS would not have been able to spread like a cancer from Syria.  I mean, had Obama just bombed ISIS when they were besieging Mosul in Iraq instead of mocking them as “JV,” we could have stopped this bloodshed fiasco.  But no.

Obama failed America.  Obama failed Iraq.  Obama failed the Middle East.  Obama failed the world.  And the entire human race will pay dearly for Obama’s failure just as the entire human race paid dearly for Neville Chamberlain’s failure when that fool and coward employed the same identical strategy as Obama is now.

I’m going to state for the record again how I believe the United States will catastrophically collapse.  It begins with the fact that this is now officially “God DAMN America!” because of Obama’s “fundamentally transforming” this nation into a homosexual sodomy-worshiping perverter of God’s principles.  God is not mocked.  He has turned His back on this nation and it shows to anyone who isn’t a radical FOOL.  Add to that our stratospheric debt which is – if you actually COUNT it – is currently very near $250 TRILLION.  No nation in the history of planet earth has EVER been as immoral with money as the United States of America.  And Obama has “fundamentally transformed America” there, too.  By the time Obama leaves office, he will have DOUBLED the nation’s debt and literally surpassed the total of every single American president from George Washington to George W. Bush COMBINED.  If you believe that a bankrupt nation can spend its way out of bankruptcy, you are as insane and as demon-possessed as your false messiah president is.  And, again, to document what an appallingly dishonest hypocrite Barack Obama and Democrats are, let’s remember how Obama demonized Bush for what we now know Obama quintupled down on himself.

What goes up must come down.  And America’s artificially inflated economy – allowed to metastasize into the cancer it has become by virtue of America’s status as the Reserve Currency which enables us to literally keep printing money when NO OTHER NATION IN HISTORY COULD GET AWAY WITH THAT – will most assuredly come crashing down.  You are a fool not to understand that fact.  As the reserve currency of the planet, all commodities are bought and sold with U.S. dollars.  That has allowed us to get away with fiscal policies that no other nation has EVER been allowed to get away with.  We are literally able to create money out of thin air by adding zeroes to our Federal Reserve computers with the devaluation of our currency split among every inhabitant of planet earth.

But here’s the thing: America will crash catastrophically – and the American people will suffer as no people in the history of the world have EVER suffered simply because the depth of our collapse will be so far beyond anything that has ever happened in all of human history – when we lose that Reserve Currency status.  And I guaran-damn-TEE you that that will happen in the not-very-distant future now.  America’s abuse of that status guarantees it.  Already, the next five largest economies, the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are demanding that the United States dollar be severed from reserve currency status.  And I can now assure you that former allies such as Germany – enraged by Obama – won’t stand in the way of that move.

Obama’s gutting of our national security and his incredibly weak and cowardly foreign policy have made us appear weak and actually BE weak in the world.  There is NOTHING to stop our allies from abandoning us just as there is NOTHING to stop our enemies from being emboldened against us.  We maintained our status as Reserve Currency by serving as the policeman of the world.  No matter how much they bitched about it, the rest of the free world was glad that we were there to back them up so they didn’t have to provide powerful militaries themselves.  Those days are OVER because of Obama.  And there is no reason to keep a strong, powerful America around anymore as we reneged on OUR end of the deal.

The night before our complete economic collapse, the talking heads will tell you that everything will be okay and your money will be fine.  You mark my words.

The United States is nowhere mentioned in Bible prophecy.  But you should already be able to see that there will be no strong, powerful America to prevent the degeneration of the world into rabid evil.  If anything, in fact, the United States is now LEADING the world into evil.  And God will put an end to this blasphemous, heretic nation very soon.

The Antichrist is coming out of the soon-coming ruins.  And Democrats will worship him and take his mark because he will promise the ultimate big-government Utopia that they have dreamed of.

History will ultimately prove that Barack Hussein Obama and every Democrat who supported him were the Useful Idiots who ushered in the Antichrist and the coming hell on earth.