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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 06:28 AM Jun 2014

The Silence Would Be Deafening If Obama Tasked Neocons With Finding Solutions In Iraq

The ISIS terrorists in Iraq have surged and captured Mosul. This has given new life to the neocons who, over the past few years, had to content themselves with inflating the nonsense that is BENGHAZI and criticizing virtually everything else the President has done to affect the foreign soil that lies beyond the Rose Garden.

Pundits say the President has few options with which to deal with the Iraq situation but of course they are not thinking like neocons. Beyond drones, air strikes and a “small” group of boots on the ground (gee, maybe we could call them “advisors”), John McCain has brilliantly suggested that President Obama fire his entire national security team, replacing them with G.W. Bush advisors led by former General David Petraeus who commanded the so called Iraq surge.

The President has another option and I suspect a plurality of Americans would love to see him take it. The President is a busy man so I have taken the liberty of writing a speech which he could deliver to a joint session of Congress. Of course he must add his own touches of soaring rhetoric, but here are the basics.


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/13/silence-deafening-obama-tasked-neocons-finding-solutions-iraq.html

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