*kicks self for stupid joke*

Over on the right wing sites, they're saying Obama should have "negotiated" harder to keep U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

after signing the agreement, in Baghdad, he held a press conference which was where the guy threw the shoe at him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement#December_14.2C_2008_press_conference

I couldn't remember the exact date.

But no matter how many times we explain this, they are still going to think that Obama ordered the pull-out. Because it's something in character for him to do. Because he's a liberal, and this is the kind of thing liberals do. And because 2008 was a long time ago, and who remembers what happened then?

NOT that a major piece of policy had been negotiated and signed, but that someone threw a shoe. Unfuckingbelievable.

But IOKIYAR.

You never have to be consistent and history can always be - and is - rewritten.

Or perhaps he's being self-critical. No, senior moment.

Nobody will be paying attention as the War Hawks are brainwashing Americans back to the year 2003: hiding the Bush Family Evil Empire of Warmongering Sales behind chards of the IS.

Oh well, I'm sure our famously liberal media will nail him on that little inconsistency.

100 percent impossible!

Dripping, dripping blood.

I hope the screams of dying children and the wails of their mothers haunt him at night.

Cow boy. Go help some of your younger relation get into military uniforms so's they'll be ready to defend our freedoms.

His war created the conditions that made ISIS.

Very true but he will never admit publically he made the wrong decision.

w didn't know the difference between Shia and Suni less the 2 months before starting
his unneeded war.

gets in. Ya'know his brother Jeb is running.

felt like it, a$$hole?

Except not in the way you think.

...of the new undead Iraqi child that will follow you everywhere.

George W. Bush Debuts New Paintings Of Dogs, Friends, Ghost Of Iraqi Child That Follows Him Everywhere

because Iraq said that since they were now an independent state again, Americans, especially mercenary contractors, who BushCo. hired in the thousands @ 10x the cost of an average private. Mercenaries that had decided, looking at their superiors no doubt, that they were above any law, and killed civilians for fun. And it was getting so out of hand that even the puppet Prime Minister had to do something, like actually holding them accountable for once. BushCo. knew this would be a political nightmare because he knew that this gang of thugs they hired wouldn't be able to restrain themselves. His administration set the tone in the first place with their anything goes "dark side" approach. So they in fact were the most responsible for the forcing of the hand of the Prime Minister, which their response was to run away...run away...nothing to see here folks.

Suffice to say, it involves Mr. Bush and 12,788 curse words.

FUCK the bushes.

fuck off you worthless piece of shit*.

And why is Obama to blame for the failures of Bush's handpicked guy Malaki's leadership?

Was Obama supposed to re-occupy Iraq?

The only place the Shrub and his Dick need to be is hanging from the gibbet for the sport of his own vulture capitalists.
Apologies to Tolkien.

Why did Bush sign the bill making all American troops get out of Iraq. He did it in the last 2 months before he left office. Why didn't he delay it for Obama to make the decision. Bush and Cheney are really traitors to this nation.

I piss on you!

Going there was a disaster, and staying there an exercise in futility.

I was in the waiting room of one of my venders this past Thursday and caught part of this while waiting for my meeting to start.

I didn't see this comment, but I have to give some credit where it's due.. From what I saw every question the fox interviewer was posing was most painfully obvious they were trying to get Bush to slam on President Obama, and from the part that I saw, Bush was actually refusing to rise to it. Bush actually seemed like he was trying to more defend Obama, and the job he has to do than trying to criticize. Frankly I was quite shocked, and for the first time that I can remember had a small bit of respect for him.

He, and his administration does still need to stand trial for war crimes imo. Even if ultimately no sentences are handed out, when the US goes to war, invades a soverign nation based on information that ultimately turns out to be completely false, and the end result is we invaded a nation that we should never have invaded, we should hold the administration to the question. It is a huge shame on us that we have never been held to account for.

with their illegal war. They need to be sitting in the Hague being judged for their war crimes.

to enlist for Iraq but couldn't explain why he wouldn't?



Funny but I can't find any video clips of him or transcripts about that. I can't recall who interviewed him either. He made the rounds for a while and was a sure-fire punching bag.

There is this one but it's not what I remember seeing.

Obama tried to convince Iraqi to let us keep troops there and failed.

The only way we could have stayed was to destroy the pretense of Iraqi sovereignty.

You're fingerprints on it
The whole thing has been a mess from the beginning
For him to even comment is just beyond belief

as if anything happens in Iraq on its own. there are innumerable hands in the middle east stirring the pot. imperialism is the source of the problem there. the middle east is a hornet's nest of devil's bargains. it would be extremely difficult for any new govt to handle the onslaught of imperialism. as if anyone ever expected we would leave iraq and that would be that. imperialist forces CHOSE to destabilize iraq. everything is going according to plan, i.e., the rich are getting richer off the backs of the poor (or soon to be poor).

We are told that Dubya had already agreed to the procedure that ended it.

It's true when you give Obama credit for withdrawal from Iraq and its just as true when POS says we should not have withdrawn. Facts are funny that way.

That was the Iraq policy under Bush. He even fired Larry Lindsey for suggesting it would cost as much as $200 million.

Bush never learned the lesson of Vietnam -- probably because both he and Cheney were draft dodgers in that conflict. Clinton didn't have American forces fighting on the ground in Kosovo and while that was messy the outcome was far superior to what happened in Vietnam and Iraq with large numbers of Americans on the ground fighting the war as an invading army. And now the delusional Bush has gone from we will be greeted as liberators to we need an occupying force on the ground forever. Bush is just as clueless today as he was when he first unleashed this mess in the first place.

Maybe he was thinking of welcoming tourists to Hawaii.

F him!

let's hope the lesson sticks.

Why don't they pull themselves up by their boot straps?
Where's Iraq's personal responsibility?
Are they gonna depend on the US government forever?
Are they just more takers and deadbeats like the billions of welfare queens we have here in the US?

You, you selected by SCOTUS piece of shit, put the bigoted Sunni hating Maliki in charge to be sure to keep the sectarian violence going. You want a 2nd shot at the Iraqui oil which you failed to secure the first time around. Or is it that Cheney needed more money to keep the evil going so you created the conditions for ISIS, making sure they got a bunch of American munitions so they would be viable threat? YOu have no right to ever open your mouth and preach to anyone else. You, sir, are a traitor and the grandson of a traitor. Truth be told, your dad is probably a traitor too, he just hid his involvement with bribing Iraq to hold the prisoners better is all.

You and yours need to be dropped off in Iraq to face the judgment of ISIS.

I personally would pay to see that!