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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:18 PM Jun 2014

Here is what I think will happen in Iraq

I think Obama will order airstrikes in Iraq.

Once that happens, the right-wing echo chamber will declare that Iraq "just became Obama'a war." Once that happens, GW Bush will (in their minds) be absolved of all responsibility. Obama will become retroactively responsible for everything that happened there since we invaded in 2003.

That's what they did when Obama ordered a surge in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was "Obama's war" after that point.

The Republican base ate it up. Everything became the fault of the black guy.

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Here is what I think will happen in Iraq (Original Post) LuckyTheDog Jun 2014 OP
I agree there will be air strikes, but the repukes have already blamed Obama for that plus lostincalifornia Jun 2014 #1
Just stay out, no help... N_E_1 for Tennis Jun 2014 #2
+1 Little Star Jun 2014 #3
And if he does order airstrikes customerserviceguy Jun 2014 #4
Airstrikes for what? Best to send food, water, tents, and medicine and sit down and shut up before TheKentuckian Jun 2014 #5

lostincalifornia

(3,639 posts)
1. I agree there will be air strikes, but the repukes have already blamed Obama for that plus
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:22 PM
Jun 2014

Everything else most of it outright lies, that most of the media lets stand

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,722 posts)
2. Just stay out, no help...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:42 PM
Jun 2014

This will never be over. It's their war, it's their ideology. We don't understand.
Just let them have at it. Oil be damned.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
4. And if he does order airstrikes
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 05:39 PM
Jun 2014

or even a single cruise missile or drone strike, then he does own it. He owns whatever we reap from drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, too.

And if we had just evacuated all of our people out of Libya when that place went to hell, then there would have been no Benghazi, either.

American intervention in the morass of the Middle East makes about as much sense as China sending troops to Europe to quell violence between Catholics and Protestants at the time of the Reformation. Sometimes people need to "grow" out of their religious-fueled stupidity, and sometimes it takes many generations to have that happen. It certainly wasn't helped by losing a half dozen American lives a week playing kindergarten cop, babysitting Iraqis who were just keeping their powder dry until we were gone.

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
5. Airstrikes for what? Best to send food, water, tents, and medicine and sit down and shut up before
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 05:59 PM
Jun 2014

we fuck anything else up.

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