Naval Academy Speech: Obama Implies Iraq War Was Unnecessary
AP: "As long as I am your commander-in-chief, I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary," Obama said, in an apparent veiled criticism of the Bush administration war in Iraq, which the president has argued was unnecessary.
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DeniseMay 22nd, 2009 - 1:58 pm
Is it me, or did the applause seem somewhat tepid?
samirMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:01 pm
It might have been un-PC to say it, but everyone and their dog knows that the Iraq war was an unnecessary mistake. I say this as a conservative Republican who initially supported the war after being misled by Bush and Congress.
JeffinSacMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:15 pm
After his disaster when he spoke at Camp Lejuene, it is unbelievable that President Obama did not get that bashing the military and it’s missions to the troops was not a good idea.
Those you heard clapping were probably the reporters and not the cadets and when is President Obama going understand he is suppose to be the Commander in Chief of the military?
AtlasOjectivistMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:16 pm
Note to Samir – you are not a conservative, so feel free to continue your lunatic rage against the former administration and support for this socialist left wing anti-American radical.
AnneMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:29 pm
“Everybody and His Dog” knows that every country who participated in the Iraq war was convinced they were doing the correct thing based on their own intelligence reports having nothing to do with Bush. American can’t convince England, France, Canada, Japan, Spain, Australia to go to war unless they see a need to do it for their own well being themselves. They certainly would not do just to please the US.
HickokMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:32 pm
“As long as I am your commander-in-chief, I will only send you into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary.”
Translation: When his poll numbers are in the f*cking tank like Clinton’s were when he unnecessarily bombed Kosovo to smithereens.
DanKMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:42 pm
Those f*%#ing traders…responding to the President’s remarks with applause???? Why would any military person applaud a statement like that??? Oh yeah…they like to live too and don’t much appreciate being sent into battle with no gear and NO GOAL!!!
DL13May 22nd, 2009 - 2:45 pm
Such starry-eyed idealism. He talks like we get to pick and choose every battle we get into. Didn’t he study about WWII, Korea and 9/11? When you have to go to war you have to go with what you got; that is why a strong, smart military with a high morale is so important.
Joe Biden, Real Man of National Security GeniusMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:53 pm
In an interview while travelling in Kosovo, Joe Biden said: “But, look, what the president said is that closing Gitmo is going to be hard. It’s like opening Pandora’s Box. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S INSIDE THE BOX.”
Biden also said that “to the best of my knowledge” the number of prisoners “who are a real danger who are not able to returned or tried” has “NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED” by the Obama administration.
So he basically just confirmed Dick Cheney’s analysis that the Gitmo decision was taken “with little deliberation, and no plan”.
AnneMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:55 pm
Kosovo was bombed to protect the muzzie invaders from Albania and muzzie terrorists inside Kosovo. These people invaded and took over Kosovo and ejected most Christians hundreds of years ago after the muzzies came to the area. Since the UN action and bombing by Clinton, most Christian churches have been burned and Christians driven out of their own country, all under the supervision of the UN and with their approval.
The Clinton administration was anti-Christian as well as the current administration.
LSMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:02 pm
The folks (faculty and their families) and cadets at this academy are very honorable people. Talk to them and they will tell who the honorable commanders-in-chief are when it comes to protecting our country and its people. In most of their lives it was Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. They did their best to wade through the Clinton years and it appears that they will try to do the same during the Obama years. I’ve talked to hundreds of Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Not a single one felt that these operations were wrong or in vane. Unfortunately, we live in a world where our media downplays this and up-plays all the liberal-minded garbage and talk-points.
LSMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:03 pm
Oh, one more thing. It is extremely dishonorable for a current President to go to the Naval Academy to make a political speech regarding war (that we are currently in!!) to bolster his position when it is being called into question. (The news reports just stated the the Hill Democrats encouraged him to do so because the polls show that they and he are losing credibility on the issues.) President Obama has only been in office for a few months and he thinks he can conceptualize all the years we have been dealing terrorist issues. Listen to his whole speech and focus on the level of arrogance in his words. This is certainly showing leadership to these young cadets. Sad.
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:04 pm
Snooty Snotty Obama seems to have quite a few messed up priorities. And after sending millions of unborn babies to their deaths, he does not strike me as a man of morals. After cluster-ffin the economy and 400 percent more debt, he seems to have no mind for math or economics. So, again, I have to ask what good he is? He practices weakness over strength and doing opposite of what he says he will do. You judge a person according to his works, not his words. Obama’s works are absolutely horrible.
TruthTellerMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:38 pm
Samir’s comment (above) is a perfect example of how stupid, mindless and deceitful are the liberals in this country.
The coward can’t even admit he’s a lib, claims to be a Repub, then spouts idiotic Democrat talking points. You sir, are both a liar and a coward, as well as apparently too stupid to understand anything not spoon-fed to you by the worthless NY Times propaganda machine and the utterly in-the-tank-for-Obama MSNBC.
Try reading something that will DARE to tell you the TRUTH, then TRY to get your little, pea brain around something that contradicts the mindless, incorrect mantra “Bush Lied, People Died”.
Ask (as I have) any of the 30 million people liberated from the iron fist of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein if it was an “unnecessary” war. But then, when they tell you how joyous they are to be FREE, you will simply close your tiny little mind, and say “Bush Lied, People Died…”
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:39 pm
Since the terrorist muslim killings of other muslims has been dying down in Iraq, it is more and more clear that the Iraqis as a whole are damn glad that Hussein is gone. Now if only we can get rid of our radical Hussein.
MikeMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:53 pm
Not sure why everyone is getting bent out of shape here.
My brother is an Iraq war vet and he agrees that it was an unnecessary war. It’s not unpatriotic to say that. Politically incorrect, yes.
I’m just glad USA is admitting its failures instead of sticking its head in the sand like Dubya. It’s time to stop misleading our troops.
John SmithMay 22nd, 2009 - 4:05 pm
Not sure why everyone is getting bent out of shape here.
My brother is an Iraq war vet and he agrees that it was an unnecessary war. It’s not unpatriotic to say that. Politically incorrect, yes.
I’m just glad USA is admitting its failures instead of sticking its head in the sand like Dubya. It’s time to stop misleading our troops.
[...] Naval Academy Speech: Obama Implies Iraq War Was Unnecessary AP: “As long as I am your commander-in-chief, I will only send you into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary,” Obama said, in an apparent veiled criticism of the Bush administration war in Iraq, which the president has argued was unnecessary. [...]
AlanMay 22nd, 2009 - 4:29 pm
Time for some truth in this denialist/revisionist echo chamber of a comment section:
1. Waterboarding is torture.
2. We spent 700 billion dollars and 4000 lives from the finest military on the planet to make another Islamic state. The Iraqis wrote sharia law into their constitution. And Iraq was a war of choice.
3. GW was elected on a nanowafer thin margin of 5 electoral college votes on culture war issues. He was simply not up to task for 9/11 and the aftermath. And that is what is going into the history books.
Alan
ex-Republican
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 4:32 pm
Alan, sorry turd, that aint truth, it is simplistic DNC talking points. Ex republican my arse. You were never a republican. You are too much of an ingrained moron to ever have been a republican.
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 4:36 pm
Torture is one of those vague words. Growing up, setting aside the current political PC, I always envisioned torture as something that left permanent marks, cut off parts, left scars, did permanent damage, etc. Waterboarding is paramount to stress blisters. Hardly torture. And especially appropriate for three known terrorists that killed 3000 US citizens (aprx since some were foreigners)
Drilling holes into babies heads, sucking out brains, now that is real torture. Dipping them in saline baths, again, real torture. But hey, that is different since it brings about convenience for the parents too sick and twisted and involved in selfish behavior to care.
StanMay 22nd, 2009 - 5:53 pm
It’s hard to imagine how he keeps his streak alive, but it seems like every time he opens his mouth he sound more petulant and less presidential.
runningrnMay 22nd, 2009 - 6:05 pm
Denise, I so agree with you. The applause was tepid. At one point Obama paused and waited for the adulation. It never really materialized. I sat here thinking who would clap at what he is saying, and it had to be the reporters.
look at the detailsMay 22nd, 2009 - 7:46 pm
Look at all the flakes saying they supported the Iraq invasion and now claim they were duped!
PFFF!
Lying scum just or just the usual liers practicing “tiqayya”, almost can’t tell them apart anymore.
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 8:34 pm
Ok, to test the logic or lack thereof of Obama, consider yourself in a single home, abiding by all human rights. You never lie, you never cheat, you never torture, your only fault is that you are a Christian, surrounded by muslim neighbors, in Palestine. Now, let us assume that your muslim neighbors are coming to kill you, because of who you are. Ok, what is going to protect you? Your morals? No, your weapons and your strength will protect you. Your morals wont even slow them down.
Eileen for Freedom/LibertyMay 22nd, 2009 - 9:03 pm
America…yet another lie out of the mouth of Bilderberg Bush-Obama.
If he will only send troops in harm’s way when “NECESSARY”, then why is he sending them to Afghanistan…in his own war…a war that no one has ever won!
Hypocrite!
He couldn’t hold a candle to any one of these fine young men/women!
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JUST ANOTHER PATHETIC DAY IN THE ‘REIGN OF BARRY HUSSEIN’….THE PUPPET OF THE BILDERBERGER PUPPETMASTER. IF THEY WANT HIM TO SEND TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN, HE WILL SEND THEM!
For instance the 4th of July Tea Parties.