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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.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Everything else most of it outright lies, that most of the media lets stand
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,722 posts)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.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)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)we fuck anything else up.