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Is Obama the biggest knee-jerk president, ever?

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OP, you got me.

I have kicked off efforts to have Barry booted from the White House - thank you. Thank you very much for helping me see the light.
 
SSSnail said:
"If I had a son, he'd look like that"
"It's just a clock"
"Change!"

What else? I'm pretty sure I missed a laundry list of things.
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cKGunslinger said:
Yes! After a kid was put in handcuffs for bringing a clock to school, the official POtUS Twitter account had a comment!

I mean after 9/11, President Bush started a decade-long war in an unrelated country that resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 american soldiers and a hundred thousand+ innocent Iraqi civilians, but come on! A tweet!? Fuck that knee-jerkin' Obama guy!



edit: Aww.. it ended up in P&N.
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Obama leaving Iraq has resulted in the death of many Iraqi residents in general and every Christian and non-ISIS Muslim in Mosul in particular. Europe is being inundated with refugees, said to be from Syria. One half the population of Syria appears to have left. The total deaths to result from this Europian invasion is yet to be determined.
 
xgsound said:
Obama leaving Iraq has resulted in the death of many Iraqi residents in general and every Christian and non-ISIS Muslim in Mosul in particular. Europe is being inundated with refugees, said to be from Syria. One half the population of Syria appears to have left. The total deaths to result from this Europian invasion is yet to be determined.
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Obama didn't "leave Iraq", he followed a binding agreement, hashed out between the Iraqi Government and the Bush Administration before he was elected..
 
xgsound said:
Obama leaving Iraq has resulted in the death of many Iraqi residents in general and every Christian and non-ISIS Muslim in Mosul in particular. Europe is being inundated with refugees, said to be from Syria. One half the population of Syria appears to have left. The total deaths to result from this Europian invasion is yet to be determined.
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Bummer.

I guess we should have US troops in there dying.

I get the impression you have never been in the military ?

Go sign up and volunteer to go there if you are so concerned.

feralkid said:
Obama didn't "leave Iraq", he followed a binding agreement, hashed out between the Iraqi Government and the Bush Administration before he was elected..
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feralkid said:
Obama didn't "leave Iraq", he followed a binding agreement, hashed out between the Iraqi Government and the Bush Administration before he was elected..
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Agreements....LOL! The right doesn't feel the need to honor any agreement signed by any president, theirs included. Just sign any damned thing when its politically expedient and then ignore it later.
 
Meghan54 said:
Agreements....LOL! The right doesn't feel the need to honor any agreement signed by any president, theirs included. Just sign any damned thing when its politically expedient and then ignore it later.
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And then there was Jeb Bush just recently backing up his brother's big business backed wars in the Middle East, complete with blaming Obama "for leaving Iraq too early". My reaction was like "did he just really say that? Wut da.....?"

If anything, it seems to me that what Jeb was really pissed about was how leaving Iraq must have really riled up his big business family friends that were "making a killing" over there at the time and really didn't want to abandon the goose that kept laying those golden eggs.
 
You clearly misunderestimate how bad things were before..

As of May 29, 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,425 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 32,223 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

How's that for a knee jerk reaction compared to the beer summit or your other theories?

Keyboard warriors are often only too happy and fill their gut with corndogs, beer and call names like obozo hussein muslim rather than look at the stats of how their country is suffering from a knee jerk reaction of a war we didn't need.
 
I've always liked this one myself.

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
 
I have generally though of Obama is a closet Republican, he is far too conservative IMO. Ordering and allowing mechanized murder through the use of drones, villifying heros like Snowden, and generally doing shady shit and lying to people. Also, he has failed to push hard enough to kill the war on drugs, reduce incarceration, and get rid of all the privatized universities and prisons that exist solely to leech money from the public.

The gini index continues to climb. He has done some good, but, he has accomplished very little, mostly due to various eruptions from bullshit mountain.

Anyhow, if we are going to complain about the president, lets complain about real things instead of made up stupid bullshit.
 
BurnItDwn said:
I have generally though of Obama is a closet Republican, he is far too conservative IMO. Ordering and allowing mechanized murder through the use of drones, villifying heros like Snowden, and generally doing shady shit and lying to people. Also, he has failed to push hard enough to kill the war on drugs, reduce incarceration, and get rid of all the privatized universities and prisons that exist solely to leech money from the public.

The gini index continues to climb. He has done some good, but, he has accomplished very little, mostly due to various eruptions from bullshit mountain.

Anyhow, if we are going to complain about the president, lets complain about real things instead of made up stupid bullshit.
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I seriously do not understand the opposition to drones. It's a war on terror [overseas contingency operation].

Technology is always applied to war and often has its origin in war.

Rocks. Sharpened rocks. Spears. Tomahawks. Slings. Fire. Bows and arrows. Explosives. Guns and cannons. Vehicles. Planes and bombers. Missiles. Submarines and torpedoes. Ballistic missiles. GPS. Drones.

Where should it have stopped?

Bow and arrow?

Sling?

Spear? (you can throw them and harm someone from a distance without exposing yourself directly)

Rocks? (you can throw them and harm someone from a distance without exposing yourself directly)

Even people on the right criticize Obama for using drones. I seriously don't understand where the objection to drones even starts in someone's mind. It's bewildering to me.

So people think the way war works is: You have to give your enemy a chance to beat you or seriously injure you.
 
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