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In reply to the discussion: Fuck. [View all]SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)You took a snip out of the famous "Welcome Back" speech that was talking about the drawn-down and you claimed it supported your calling "BS" my statement that Obama never said Iraq "was about freedom."
As the speech in full makes clear, he was honoring the troops, not the invasion. Nowhere in that speech does he say the invasion of Iraq or the Iraq War "was about freedom." Yet that is what you and your right wing article assert. And that is a lie.
I did NOT "admit " that "the war in Iraq gave the Iraqis a chance at self-determination." I said the "draw-down" mission gave Iraqis a chance to get on their own feet, to "have a chance to forge their own destiny" as Obama said in the speech. Had we stayed, they would never have had that chance. Invading Iraq did NOT give them that chance. The ensuing war certainly did not give them that chance. It was a disaster for all concerned. It was our tempered withdrawal that gave them that chance.
It is amazing how free you feel to lie about what is stated plainly in print.