group ignorance: GOP presidential field unified in opposition to Iraq withdrawal

[spanone]

the party of eternal war has spoken....

this is reason enough to keep any one these idiots out of the white house

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Despite their inability to agree on the economy or much else, Republican presidential candidates spoke with one voice in reaction to President Obama’s announcement of a full U.S. withdrawal from Iraq this year.
They were against it

It was an “astonishing failure” that risked all the gains made “through the blood and sacrifice” of thousands of Americans, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he was “deeply concerned” that Obama had put “political expediency ahead of sound military and security judgment.” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) cited it as another example of the president’s foreign policy weakness, and Jon Huntsman, Obama’s former ambassador to China, called it a “mistake.”

Herman Cain let stand his assessment of last weekend, in which he announced that withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan were “a dumb thing to do.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/gop-presidential-field-unified-in-opposition-to-iraq-withdrawal/2011/10/21/gIQAp03o4L_story.html?hpid=z1

[lunatica]

1. They're spitting in the wind thus getting spittle on their own faces

They've lost all credibility and what they say simply doesn't matter anymore.

[GoCubsGo]

2. I find it intersting that they didn't include Ron Paul in the article.

IIRC, the broken clock has been against the Iraq war from the start. Unless I missed it in the article, they aren't completely "unified". It amuses me that WaPo is overlooking that point.

[spanone]

10. didn't mention the newt, santorum or huntsman either....

wapo plays favorites.....bachmann is no more likely to win than newt

[tblue]

3. Then they should suit up and go over there themselves.

How is it possible to be dead wrong on every single issue????!

[FarLeftFist]

4. What are they thinking, that year 10 will somehow be different?!

Talk about DISCONNECT.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Shouldn't they be criticizing Bush

for the SOFA HIS (mis-)Administration helped negotiate that said we'd be out by the end of the year? :shrug:

[The Wielding Truth]

7. Honestly. Their boyfriend, * , set the date. What a bunch of idiots!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Not that I expect them to be consistent

or non-hypocritical. :eyes:

Just blame Obama for SOMETHING. Blame Obama blame Obama blame Obama blame Obama.................:puke:

[The Wielding Truth]

13. When you think of it ,when was the last time they ever took responsibility?

[safeinOhio]

6. Just ask them how

they want to pay for staying. Raise taxes?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. .....

:spray: :rofl:

Yeah, right!!!

Not to mention, how would they keep our troops their against the Iraqi government's will? Demand another regime change?

:wtf:

[NNN0LHI]

11. Which means these fuckers will call in every marker they have in the region to assure it ends badly

The GOP will enlist Iran if necessary. They have before.

Don

[Tanuki]

12. Did Romney explain why none of his 5 sons

offered any of that "blood and sacrifice"? Same question applies to any of the others who had kids who were eligible at any time in the past ten years.