Thread: Breaking News: Obama to announce full withdrawal from Iraq
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Old 10-21-2011, 12:48 PM  
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Originally Posted by TheDoc View Post
I remember Bush saying "The Democrats goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq."

He was pretty strong headed on making sure we stay the course, even after the election. However he did, more than once, pull troops from Iraq, some home and others to Afghan. But after Obama was elected, Iraq started to demand a time-line to get U.S. forces out... because Bush didn't create one.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110601189.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_164801.html

The democrats wanted out of Iraq because they know we should of never been there in the first place. Democrats wanted to focus on Afghan and win Afghan because that were the root of the terrorism issue was at that time.


Republicans wanted to make a show of Afghan but Bush & co really wanted to invade Iraq. We got trumped up BS from them as a reason to invade and then it was mission accomplished as nearly 10 years later as it's pretty much just as fucked as when we started.

Bush & co may have wanted to win Iraq, but they didn't do it. Instead they got us into a fucked position and also allowed the war in Afghan to go to shit allowing the tangos to spread their network around the world with greater support.

Yey go Republicans they are awesome with wars and getting our troops killed while having little to no plan on what they are doing or how to accomplish it.

Simple fact is Republicans are big on talking and little on action or following it through.
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