Frankly, I'm weary of the way the Dems try to re-write history.
In case they've forgotten that many of their key players were worried about Saddam Hussein back in the late 90's and supported George Bush's attempts to topple him in the early 2000's, here's a small refresher.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, let's not forget that as recently as 2010, the Obama administration was quite pleased with the way things were going in Iraq. Mr. Biden again:
Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary Magazine, says the following:
A fair-minded reading of the facts, I think, shows that when Mr. Obama was sworn in, the Iraq war had more or less been won. Things were fragile to be sure. But the errors that were made during the occupation of Iraq following the fall of Saddam, which were extremely costly, were corrected in 2007. That was when President Bush made what is in my estimation his most impressive decision. In the face of enormous political opposition, with the nation weary of the war, Mr. Bush implemented a new counterinsurgency strategy, dubbed the “surge” and led by the estimable General David Petraeus. It resulted in startling gains.
"What Kind of Iraq Did Obama Inherit?" (Peter Wehner, Commentary Magazine, June 19, 2014).
By the time the surge ended in 2008, violence in Iraq had dropped to the lowest level since the first year of the war. Sectarian killings had dropped by 95 percent. By 2009, U.S. combat deaths were extremely rare. (In December of that year there were no American combat deaths in Iraq.) Iraq was on the mend. Even Barack Obama, who opposed the surge every step of the way, conceded in September 2008 that it had succeeded in reducing violence “beyond our wildest dreams.”
Enough, Democrats. Enough of the lying, enough of the blaming, enough of the dissembling, enough of the petty politics, enough of the demonizing. Your party and your leader are taking America down a terrible path. If George W. Bush made mistakes in his attempts to deal with unspeakable evil, at least he was man enough to face them and courageous enough to correct them.
Now it's your turn. Man up, Mr. Obama. If necessary, ask the good people of the other party to help you and advise you. The time to stop playing politics is now because the evil menacing us today eclipses the evil Mr. Bush faced back then. It's time to set aside your ego and your narcissism and your arrogance. The future of our country, and perhaps even the world, are at stake.
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