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Showing Original Post only (View all)POTUS Did NOT Defend The Iraq War [View all]
and anyone who claims that he did is either deliberately being misleading or is just plain clueless.
He was clearly using the example of the Iraq war as the US at it's worst. His point (in response to Putin's comment) was that even when we are at our worst, we don't do things as bad as the takeover of Crimea.
Context is everything. He was responding to a claim that both were the same thing. He was arguing that they aren't. He wasn't claiming that it was OK.
President Obama said. "But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraqs territory, nor did we grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people, and a fully sovereign Iraqi state could make decisions about its own future."
That is not a defense of the Iraq war. It is pointing out that even at our worst we are better than that.
But even in Iraq.....
Yes
even in Iraq (when we fucked up so badly) America sought to......
Context.