Originally posted by: dphantom
"Didn't Obama vote in favor of a 6 month withdrawal that Bush vetoed?
When? I searched high and low for a link where he said he could or would withdraw all troops from Iraq in six months. During the Presidential campaign, he said he wanted to withdraw American troops from Iraq in six
teen months.
Here's one direct quote:
Obama said that Anbar tribal leaders and the province's governor had expressed concern about a potential "precipitous drawdown" of U.S. troops.
He said this was not what he was proposing. "What I propose is a steady, deliberate drawdown over the course of 16 months and I emphasized that to them," he added.
"Over the course of 16 months" obviously means that withdrawal would start before that sixteen months elapsed. Since he took office, the added information he has as President is why extend that to eighteen months and otherwise modify his earlier position. Would you expect him NOT to adapt to an evolving situation and newer information?
Ex-Senator George McGovern wrote a book with William Polk in 2006 that called for withdrawal from Iraq within six months. Is that what you mean?
I asked for links and quotes to confirm your assertion. Got any? :roll:
And to set the record straight, I did not say those named lied about Iraq nor did Bush lie.
Well, you got one out of two right, but that's not saying much. Assuming for the sake of argument that you can dig up any lies by the others you named, by your own admission, none of them were offered as excuses for invading Iraq. None of them were the direct reason 4,271 American troops are now dead and tens of thousands more are wounded. The only ones to whom that applies are George W. Bush and his criminal gang.
Bush and his entire criminal cabal ABSOLUTLEY DID LIE about their ever changing, always bogus excuses for invading Iraq. I can repost one of my foot long macros detailing them, including names and dates. You can find them by searching my old posts. I'd rather not waste a lot of forum space by reposting them, but I can if you insist.
Bush failed in ohter ways. You were the one who brought that up. But those I named have lied about their complicity in the financial situation and are not being held accountable.
We have lots of threads about that. Maybe you should post about that where it's relevant. :laugh:
Biden lied about his meeting with Bush and Rove called him on it.
Can you prove Biden didn't meet with Bush or that he didn't say that? If not, all you have is the word of Rove, a documented liar, vs. Biden's word that he did. At worst, if it's not true, Biden's statement is a bit of inconsequential political puffery, and nobody died as a result. I don't know either way, and frankly, considering the horrific consequenses of the lies from all of the Bushwhackos, including Rove, it really doesn't matter.
My point will is that it is about time anyone lying be called for what it is. Dem or rep.
I agree. Now, unless you can back up your statement that Bush didn't lie about his excuses for starting the war in Iraq, you may want to consider calling his lies what they are.