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Of Course

I was counting down the hours until one of those crotch weasels said it.

Hillary: Fall Of Iraq Is Bush’s Fault

Hillary Clinton on Thursday defended the Obama administration’s handling of the Dec. 2011 withdrawal of troops from Iraq, pointing out that the timetable was first negotiated by its predecessor.

“Let me say on Iraq, because it’s in the news and it’s a dreadful deteriorating situation, the deadline on Iraq was set – was set by the prior administration, that if there were not a status-of-forces agreement … there would not be American troops,” she said.

During an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the former secretary of state was asked whether she was comfortable with President Obama’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal timeline in the light of “the unraveling of Iraq, where there is no residual American force.”
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Under a security agreement signed in late 2008, the end of 2011 had been set as the deadline for the final pullout from Iraq, but the two governments negotiated during 2011 on retaining a 3,000-5,000-strong training and counterterrorism force in the country beyond that date.

However, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki struggled to win support from major political blocs and disputes over legal protections for U.S. troops eventually scuppered the talks.

Right. Because 2008’s timeline decision was guaranteed to be along the lines of “let’s set it for 3 years from now, and then see where we are then and what we need to do.” Guaranteed.

But Obama, he of the fecal-Midas touch, couldn’t even negotiate a decent agreement with Maliki, who owes everything he is and every breath he takes to the United States. He was our puppet and he damn well knew it. And if not, a little reminder could have been made. A tiny twist of the arm.

You simply do not Cut & Run, even if you think that finally, finally, it’s Mission Accomplished. You ease out, leaving a sizable force in place, working as advisers, integrators, and further trainers. Left to his own, Maliki went right back to his primitive tribal and religious roots, purging the officer corps of those who weren’t “his” kind, and keeping the trained local troops, all of whom I gather were the one flavor of Izzy, from being blended in with much larger group of other local troops who were the other flavors of Izzy. In other words, he became a little Saddam the moment we left. Maybe a bit less evil and violent, but no less aboriginal. He built up his tribe at the expense of building up the country. And now he’s paying for it.

Of course, Obama took every last bit of credit for ending the war as a “win”, and for bringing home all of the troops. He was most emphatic about that at the time: this was his doing. The Me me me me meme. Nothing in there about timelines.

But now, it’s let’s blame Bush. As usual. Of course.

What a lying bunch of sissy pants simpletons.


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