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Townhall
This Way Comes
Erick Erickson
May 29, 2015
"The difference between Bush's mistakes and his disappointments may
just be that he hasn't yet taken ownership of the latter," Massimo
Calabresi wrote in Time as he covered President George W. Bush's final
press conference in January of 2009. Four years earlier, left-wing
journalist John Dickerson had begun a trend among the Bush White House
press corps, demanding from the president a recognition of his mistakes.
Dickerson, now like George Stephanopoulos, plays an objective Sunday
news program questioner, and he, along with the circle of jerks who
pose as objective reporters of the Obama administration, would rather
blame Bush for ISIS, and not Barack Obama. But objectively, in 2009, as
Bush left the White House, the surge had worked, Iraq was stabilizing,
Iran was on the sidelines, and ISIS did not exist.
When Obama entered the White House, he had made a campaign promise to
get out of Iraq. On July 14, 2008, then candidate Obama wrote in The
New York Times, "We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace
that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010
-- two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began."
PolitiFact, which once attacked those who said Obama was lying with his
claim that you could keep your doctor only to later declare that claim
a lie, has never wavered from declaring that Obama has stuck to his
Iraq withdrawal plan.
In fact, the Obama administration was so intent on withdrawal that it
is now both documented and accepted as fact that the administration ran
from negotiating an agreement to keep American troops in Iraq. Dexter
Filkins, writing in The New Yorker's April 28, 2014, issue, documented
our disastrous withdrawal...
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