And cowards start coming out...

I don't care if it was naked political calculation. We did all we could be expected to do there, it's time to bring them home.

You know what else was a naked political calculation...?

I'm waiting for the "We should have ignored the wishes of the Iraqi people, and stayed there to defend against Iran."

ginandbacon: Clicky my linky ;)

All she said was that we should commit a war crime by forcing them to pay us back for the war.

Romney: "It's a naked political calculation and once you harmonize the various statistical quirks, you'll understand"

ginandbacon: "Today's announcement that we will remove all of our forces from Iraq is a political decision and not a military one; it represents the complete failure of President Obama to secure an agreement with Iraq for our troops to remain there to preserve the peace and demonstrates how far our foreign policy leadership has fallen."

I literally want them to say,"We should have ignored the wishes of the Iraqi people, and stayed there to defend against Iran." Because you know they will.

FlashHarry: so obama traveled back in time to 2008 and convinced the previous republican president to set a pull out date. now THAT'S some calculating! brilliant!

Funnily, I remember arguing with Republicans during the 08 election about Obama's promise to set a timetable for withdrawal, and they were telling me how insane and dangerous and "emboldening" it was... then Bush announced a timetable for withdrawal, and I laughed and made a joke about Obama influencing Presidential policy before even getting elected.

Politically, 2008 was a fantastic year.

so the neocons are back giving the republicans their talking points I see.

violentsalvation: And yes, I was duped into supporting that war, but I can admit my mistakes and learn from them.

Congratulations. It takes a big man to admit his mistake.

Likewise, Clinton duped me on NAFTA and GATT. I give myself a break because I was still a teenager at the time.

GAT_00: So Republicans now want to send troops into foreign countries? It's so hard to tell when the GOP opposed any intervention in Libya and opposed sending troops to get a child-raping Christian army to knock it off.

I know. I can't even keep up with the pathological hatred anymore.

Obama was so successful running against Bush that Romney decided to steal his playbook.

/trolling both sides.

Diogenes: Romney's attack is completely transparent.

I detect traces of santorum in it, so not completely.

I don't care if it is.

Fewer young American men and women dying in a pointless war on the other side of the earth is a good thing. IMO.

We have problems of our own here, burning lives and money on foreign shores adds to those problems. If Iraq can't get their shiat together after 10 years that's their problem.

Obama should just turn to Romney and say "Look, I can't keep fighting this fool's errand forever. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake!"

Diogenes: Does Romney know what those recommendations were? Color me skeptical.

Yeah.

That's a big bullshiat meter pegger, right there.

Romney is an out-of-work former state government figure. He would not be privy to what goes on in the back rooms of the Federal Government... unless, of course, he'd like to tell us all where he got that information.

unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won

Can someone fill me in on what victories he's talking about? What have we accomplished there exactly? Saddam's dead? Big deal.

Naked Rommunism.


Oh yeah.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't bringing them home by 2012 something Obama said he was going to do pretty much from day one?

Doing what he said constitutes a naked political calculation?

It is to laugh!