Every President in the Past 25 Years has Announced 'We Are Bombing Iraq' in Prime Time.

[grahamhgreen]

“Just two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait.”

—President George H. W. Bush
January 16, 1991

“Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq.”

—President Bill Clinton
December 16, 1998

“My fellow citizens. At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”

—President George W. Bush
March 19, 2003

“My fellow Americans. Tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL.”

—President Barack Obama
September 10, 2014

Every American President in the past quarter century has now gone on television during prime time to tell the nation and the world that he has decided to bomb Iraq. Last night was Barack Obama’s turn, and it was a vexing performance. This is a President who has been stubbornly dedicated to extricating the United States as much as possible from its post-9/11 wars and resisting—in the absence of any good options for decisive action—being drawn into Syria’s catastrophic civil war. “The greatest responsibility I have as President is to keep the American people safe,” he said, two years ago. “That’s why I ended the war in Iraq.” And he repeated that boast last night, even as he told a very different story, effectively declaring a new war of staggering scope and complexity against forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, and other enemies, in Iraq and Syria—a war that he described as having no end in sight.

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[William769]

1. When you are a haven for terrorists & dictators what do you expect. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. It has become the American determination to lose wars it cannot win. Rinse, repeat...

To show that we have a "strong leader".

[KittyWampus]

3. Pathetic to see DU'er pushing the same "false equivalency" bullshit that media resorts to

time and again.

[SidDithers]

5. The poster has found their niche...nt

Sid

[grahamhgreen]

7. Who will pay for the new war?

[leftstreet]

8. The Elderly. Students. Disabled. Veterans. Single parents.

It's called 'shared sacrifice'

[grahamhgreen]

9. "Tough choices"! God forbid I can't squirrel away and extra 20 million this quarter.

[leftstreet]

10. You should have been born to a rich family

Loser

[grahamhgreen]

12. HAHA!

[grahamhgreen]

11. It's funny cuz I can imagine the think tank crowd huddled in a conference room trying to come up

with an answer to that question.

[grahamhgreen]

6. Or giving historical perspective! Pathetic AND Outrageous!!! PS - Who will pay for the new war?

[leftstreet]

4. DURec

[MisterP]

13. you don't roll out a new product in August

[grahamhgreen]

14. And when you do, make sure it has more bells and whistles!

[joeybee12]

15. With so much practice, you'd think we'd get it right...

Are we missing targets, I guess?

[Dems to Win]

16. Build a bridge, bomb it to smithereens, repeat. For 24 solid years

Great profits for Halliburton and Blackwater, immense human misery for the ordinary people of Iraq and USA.

Plus it's an obscene, criminal waste of earth's resources. War is the most anti-environmental activity we humans have devised.

[Octafish]

17. Because they can.

Thank you, Wall Street!

[Rex]

18. Cha-ching!

Money money money!

[Octafish]

21. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- appointed pretzeldent George Walker Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

And then he laughs.

The very words of George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007, uttered at a press conference in which not a single of the callow, cowed press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

I remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention.

As for his Poppy: Bush Sr told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Sorry to be so repetitive about the warmongering traitors, Rex. The level of discourse these days doesn't exactly demand it.

[Rex]

22. No but bringing it up, drives a certain contingency crazy every time they have to read about it.

So keep it up! Those that pretend the BFEE and PNAC don't exist are fools or actually agree with the BFEE and PNAC, not much wiggle room.

[grahamhgreen]

19. Ya think the Iraqi's hate us yet?

[Octafish]

20. What Harold Pinter said!