OBAMA'S IRAQ SPEECH – Pathetic Cut-&-Runner Takes Credit For Victory
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 6:00 PM
President Obama will address the nation tonight on the Iraq War and announce the official end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
From his speech:
“The future is ours to shape if we move forward with confidence.”
(That’s why he opposed the war and surge?)
Obama says he is incredibly proud of our military men and women.
(That’s why he voted to defund them.)
I declare that Iraqi Freedom is over.
Our commitment to Iraq’s future is not over.
(From a politician who once endorsed genocide over victory.)
It’s time to turn the page.
I spoke with George Bush today. (But he does not thank or credit Bush! Outrageous.)
There were patriots who supported this war….
Obama blames war for the poor economy and debt. Not true.
Obama says urgent job is to put people back to work… (It’s about time.)
Here’s the text from tonight’s speech.
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SeniorD commented:
This will be yet another example of how the White House Temp’s ego gets massaged. Every other sentence will start with the word ‘I’ and end with condemnation of anyone who has the temerity to disagree with President M.T. Suit.
In other words, nothing different.
Hedgehog commented:
Just saw the Communist in the White House give his speech. What a worm.
Chisum commented:
Wow, are you feeling the love?
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100831/capt.photo_1283279321050-6-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=yeWw0jP0Z9CM9fJaJ44v8A–
Sibyl West commented:
Words, mere words.
bill-tb commented:
Wierd disjointed speech. As the leader of the world, he falls flat on his face.
ss252 commented:
That speech was like watching paint dry while getting a root canal done without pain medication..
Now listening to Oreilly with that ditzzzzzzzzzz MEGAN McCAIN….I think I am gonna jump!
aro5o75 commented:
He’s truly pathetic.
1 commented:
He can take credit for the victory all he wants; he owns the defeat. After we leave and Iraqi civilians are murdered–he’ll own that.
StrangernFiction commented:
McShame’s daughter gives Owebowma a passing grade, than tries to back it down. Wouldn’t expect anything more from the Maverick’s daughter. Now I think I’ll run out and get her book.
madkangaroo commented:
If I had any remaining idea that Obama had a decent fiber in him, this speech removed it. While reciting our accomplishments in Iraq he did not once, not even by implication, acknowledge that they took place during the Bush administration. Obama is the most self absorbed and dishonest president since, oh, *forever*.
SM-Illinois commented:
Me me me I, I, I, blah, blah , blah, etc……..can’t wait until Nov 2010 and 2012.
Judith commented:
So da** sick of pathological lying Democrats; just how absolutely ridiculous can you get? You can get Obama’s comments on tape but he didn’t say them. Lying lying lying cretin!
Judith commented:
PS Cannot wait until November and can I vote twice? sarc/
Michael in MI commented:
Obama blames war for the poor economy and debt. Not true.
Iraq: The War that Broke Us — Not
So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.
* Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.
* Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
* Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
* Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
* Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.
* The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).
* During Bush’s Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)
squeaky commented:
the last democrat victory. john kerry thought we’d have to provide sanctuary for 2,000. dudley do-wrong still providing commentary to this day.
http://www.c-span.org/2004vote/jkerrytestimony.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsZVgQf4Ss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AiyFF9qOls
squeaky commented:
history isn’t lost on the iraqis. and in an alternate universe we may find the reason freedom isn’t free. experience is the best teacher and we haven’t experienced the loss of freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcQoQDkhbYw&feature=related
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