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Hestia

(3,818 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 09:12 PM Nov 2015

To the Republicans Blaming President Obama for the Attack in Paris: Are You Out of Your Damn Minds?

Many Republicans have reached such a point of absurdity, it’s unfathomable to me that there are people who still take them seriously. Try as I might, I cannot bring myself to the simplistic, small-minded level of thinking that it clearly requires to buy into and believe the nonsense the GOP constantly pushes.

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That being said, following the awful terrorist attack in Paris on Friday, I saw many Republicans suggesting President Obama might be to blame for the attack. They seem to enjoy claiming that his “failed foreign policy” is what allowed this to happen.
Just stop.

First, you can spin ISIS however you want, but the terror group might never have existed had George W. Bush not invaded Iraq, botched the whole damn thing and destabilized the entire region. Furthermore, if you’re blaming President Obama for our troop withdrawal – think again. That, too, was Bush by way of the Status of Forces Agreement he signed with the Iraqi government in 2008 that set the timetable for when our troops had to be out of Iraq.

And if you don’t believe me, just ask Dick Cheney who called the troop withdrawal a “sign of success in Iraq.

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/republicans-blaming-president-obama-attack-paris-damn-minds/


Very well stated.

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To the Republicans Blaming President Obama for the Attack in Paris: Are You Out of Your Damn Minds? (Original Post) Hestia Nov 2015 OP
I blame the PNACers. nt valerief Nov 2015 #1
Surely if Barack Obama is responsibe for the attack in Paris then we know Bush is responsible for Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #2
Since when is POTUS Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2015 #3
Minds and Republicans in the same sentence? FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #4
Isn't that a given? hobbit709 Nov 2015 #5

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Surely if Barack Obama is responsibe for the attack in Paris then we know Bush is responsible for
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 09:19 PM
Nov 2015

9/11. They always blame others but fail to reason before they open their stupid mouths.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
3. Since when is POTUS
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 10:25 PM
Nov 2015

responsible for attacks committed by terrorists against other countries? US foreign policy- which has actually consisted of attacking ISIS w/air strikes and killing its leaders- had NOTHING to do with the attacks in France.

Teh stupid it burns!

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