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In reply to the discussion: What Obama ACTUALLY said about Iraq [View all]GoCubsGo
(32,150 posts)36. " ...to work with what he's got."
Exactly right. And, that's the case for pretty much everything he's had to deal with, whether it's the banking mess, war crimes, environmental regulations (or lack thereof), you name it. He has to act within the law, and many things that should be law no longer are. How soon people forget...
I don't completely agree with his characterization of the invasion, either. But, I think his audience in Europe is fully aware of the circumstances that led up to the war, and that Obama was not the culprit. I haven't read or heard any criticism from them over the speech, and I suspect it would be all over our right-wing corporate news by now if they were upset by it. I think the president did the best one could do under the circumstances.
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Give it a rest. Your "reality" isn't backed up by facts. No matter what you one Iraqi source tells
okaawhatever
Mar 2014
#3
Thanks--it occurred to me, but I didn't want to add to the proliferation of meta threads!
beerandjesus
Mar 2014
#33
Then why did he say we worked within international law and did not grab its resources for our own.
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2014
#15