President Barack Obama is expected to make a statement Friday at 11:50 a.m. ET on the situation in Iraq. Watch live below, courtesy of NBC:
WATCH LIVE: Obama To Deliver Statement On Iraq
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I have real problems with risking American lives and other treasures to prop up the government of Iranian puppet Maliki.
For those people who understand what is happening in Iraq, 100% of us predicted this would happen and opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, Obama wisley refused to leave troops in Iraq because he did not want to shed more American blood and money helping America’s worst enemy, IRAN, and its puppet Maliki.
Iran only really cared about southern and central Iraq and so Maliki has left the rest to fester, and fester it has. The only reason Iran/Maliki really cares is that the insurgents, a few thousand with weapons from god knows where, are actually threatening Iran controled areas.
The only real surprise in this to me is how incompetent Iran is and how corrupt and incompetent Maliki is to let this happen. But the real question for Obama is at this point why should he care.
Bush’s criminal and unnecessary war in Iraq that Obama opposed because anyone who knew anything about Iraq knew where we are today would be the result of Bush’s war. Bush’s war has led Obama to a choice between shedding more American blood and treasures to help Iran or or sit back and watch as Iran is forced to move its own army into Iraq to save its puppet and hold part of Iraq as the rest implodes.
By the by, this is just the beginning. Real Shia hits the fan when the Kurds in the north start to murder the Turkomen forcing Turkey and other nations to get involved. The end result of Bush war of lies will be to destablize most of the area with the only winner being Iran.
The only real decision Obama has to make is does he want to, like Bush did, shed more American blood in Iran’s cause.
There seems to be a sick game in the cable news universe that hypes any military action related to war with a ton of hair-on-fire commentary in order to get this President to react. Sure enough, he reacts as they expect, and then the newsies switch the narrative that this is going to be all wrong or fall short of what is needed. I’ve seen this movie before.
The President should quit falling for this bullshit by the press. The media isn’t even being honest, and their disingenuous recollection of the facts about the Iraq War is on display for all to see. Leaving out important facts about how we got here and putting this in Obama’s lap is a fucking joke. I’ve heard sooo many comments in the last few days by reporters that haven’t been verified by any sources, just tons of conjecture cloaked as fact. Again, we’ve seen this movie before…
Good…He didn’t fall for it and make any commitments as it stands. He’s not falling for the hype. He knows this shit was predicted long ago. A civil war was predicted even before this war ended. Thank you President Obama for being level-headed and non-reactionary. You truly are the only adult in the room when it comes to military intervention.
Video wouldn’t play for me. What did the POTUS say?
He will be monitoring, can’t do for the Iraqis what they can’t do for themselves basically. No military intervention at this time. Some asshole reporter asked about oil supplies. He said he would be monitoring that too and didn’t say anything that would provoke criticism other than from assholes like McWar that want to see us go full bore into another military quagmire.
Now watch the reporters and armchair generals flip back to “why can’t Obama lead?”…