MSNBC: Iraq's collapse is a problem ...because people might think it's Obama's fault

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

He should. Isn't it interesting how noone in the UK seems to blame David Cameron or Nick Clegg for Iraq, despite the popularity of that government now being on the wane. The blame for Iraq has always been on Blair.

Yet in the US apparently it's fine to pin the failure of the Bush doctrine on Obama.

Edited June 17, 2014 by Papa Lazarou

[Jacque67 7,328]

He should. Isn't it interesting how noone in the UK seems to blame David Cameron or Nick Clegg for Iraq, despite the popularity of that government now being on the wane. The blame for Iraq has always been on Blair.

Yet in the US apparently it's fine to pin the failure of the Bush doctrine on Obama.

Guess Blair is blessed because he ain't black

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That and ####### for tat partisan BS. The loudest people squawking about politics over there are the least clued up about it.

[Póg mo 1,749]

I wonder if all the people baying for Obama to order attacks on Syria, also continue to blame him for him for his inaction? Or do we thank the Russians?

Having just spent several days travelling between three cities in Syria – and let’s have no illusions about the brutality of the Assad regime – I find it instructive to contemplate what Blair’s rebel chums in Syria are up to. Take the five-mile Aleppo airport road.How do they get away with these lies? Now Tony Blair tells us that Western “inaction” in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis. But since bombing Syria would have brought to power in Damascus the very Islamists who are now threatening Baghdad, it must therefore be a mercy that Barack Obama does not listen to the likes of Blair.

It’s newly held by government troops, but the Islamists hold so much territory around the city that you have to first drive 16 miles in darkness to reach the city along dirt tracks and overflowing lagoons of untreated sewage and beneath a disused railway line where bright red tracer fire – from the men Blair would have us support – criss-crosses the road. Syrian troops hold checkpoints on this crazy snakes-and-ladders journey. Sometimes the Islamists are only 200 metres away.

So a snapshot of Aleppo today – which would be Mosul if Blair’s friends had won and if the West had shown “action” against the Assad regime. In the streets, I find government militiamen and civilians digging 20ft-deep ditches in the streets to hunt for the ubiquitous tunnels which the Nusra and Isis forces now use to attack their enemies. Entire government buildings have exploded in government-held Aleppo. continued on link....http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-how-does-tony-blair-get-away-with-his-lies-9538846.html

Edited June 17, 2014 by InKorea

[Karee 4,191]

I wonder if all the people baying for Obama to order attacks on Syria, also continue to blame him for him for his inaction? Or do we thank the Russians?

I'm here to help. I know the countries are next to each other, but this thread is about Iraq and you posted a story about Syria. By the map below you can tell that they are different countries:

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Was that really worth it?

[Póg mo 1,749]

I'm here to help. I know the countries are next to each other, but this thread is about Iraq and you posted a story about Syria. By the map below you can tell that they are different countries:

Really, so you say there is no connection with Syria? Really??

[Póg mo 1,749]

I'm here to help. I know the countries are next to each other, but this thread is about Iraq and you posted a story about Syria. By the map below you can tell that they are different countries:

Well done for locating Iraq and Syria on a map. Now see if you can work out what these two countries, and how it might be relevant here.

[MyLittlePony 340]

Obama takes too many vacations and plays lots of golf he a commie pile of trash he is a fund raising fraud.

Edited June 18, 2014 by Ghost06

[Jacque67 7,328]

Obama takes too many vacations and plays lots of golf he a commie pile of trash he is a fund raising fraud.

What a funny story!

[MyLittlePony 340]

What a funny story!

You must be a Obam asupporter.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

You must be a Obam asupporter.

Same old story, if you don't hate him with every fiber of your being, you're a supporter. How do you people function from day to day?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Same old story, if you don't hate him with every fiber of your being, you're a supporter. How do you people function from day to day?

So you don't support Obama?

[Jacque67 7,328]

You must be a Obam asupporter.

I cannot vote in America, but respect his intellect.,, to tell the truth I don't understand why he bothered to become president

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

So you don't support Obama?

I never said I did. The first time around, I voted for Mccain, remember? This time around, I voted for him because there wasn't a better option and he's not the Anti-Christ you guys make him out to be.

I vote for who has my best interest at heart.