Obama won the war that Bush lost
Everything you need to know about the Obama Administration in one quote:
“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” ~blogs.abcnews.com
Wow. With this one quote we learn everything we need to know about the Obama Administration.
They. Lie. About. Everything.
Since when did Democrats become habitual liars who shamelessly take credit for things that they have nothing to do with? (Rhetorical question.) Conversely they are also never to blame for anything that happens. Every thing is image without substance. All hope and no change. All hat and no cattle. All credit and no accountability.
Knowing this, we can examine everything that these guys try to spin and realize the truth.
Both Obama and Biden opposed the surge in Iraq. In fact they said the surge would fail and make things worse! The reality is that it succeeded. What’s even more is that Obama’s present day Iraq policy still has, “Bush Administration,” stamped on the cover. There is not a dimes worth of difference between the two. Withdrawal of US troops was coordinated and signed by Bush. Obama has done absolutely nothing to change the Bush policies in Iraq. But he inherited a bad economy and now Iraq is his greatest success?
Just think back a few years. More than just questioning Bush’s Iraq policy Democrats made a conscious decision to oppose victory in Iraq in the hope that it would become a Vietnam for them. Meaning, a lost war which they could ride as a political issue. They declared that the war was lost and that the surge would fail. But now that Bush’s policy has succeeded, well, it was all their idea to begin with.
Less than three years after Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.) declared the war lost, less than three years after then-Sen. Barack Obama—with the usual fierce moral urgency—opposed the Bush administration’s military surge, and within three years of Mr. Biden’s own recommendation that Iraq be divided into three parts, these Democrats are laying claim to Iraq’s extraordinary victory.
The vice president wisely made his victory assertion in the television studio of a left-leaning network experienced in fudging Iraqi history. CNN, by its own admission, muted coverage of Saddam Hussein for over a decade.
In the past, American liberals have relied on a sympatico press and leftist academics to obscure or whitewash their grievous historical errors. President George W. Bush, pursuing the global war on terror, encountered the same personal slander Ronald Reagan faced as he fought and won the last major political battles of the Cold War. Both were branded “cowboys” and “warmongers.” Now, Reagan’s victorious Cold War legacy is claimed by all Americans. ~online.wsj.com
Watch this clip: “the war is lost,” or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, and ask yourself where (D) defeatist policies would have put us in Iraq today. Democrats opposed victory in Iraq. The policy they advocated was to surrender, to give up, because they felt we had already lost and more importantly that Bush had to be denied any sort of victory.
You would think that the success of the surge would be an embarrassment for Democrats but that’s just not the case. The truth, like the constitution, is a living thing; amendable and always in flux. Thus the war that Bush lost yesterday becomes the war that Obama won today.