George W. Bush finally lets fly on Der Fubar

Good day all. As you know, Barack Obama loves to blame all the problems he’s caused on former president George W. Bush. Even now, with Bush being out of office for 6+ years now and Obama is still blaming him for his own incompetence.

This isn’t to say that Bush was a great president. He wasn’t. He was mediocre at best and if it hadn’t been for 9/11, there was a good chance he would have been a one term president. Still, since leaving office in 2009, he has remained silent while Obama has accused him and blamed him for everything under the sun. Well, Bush finally spoke out on King Putt’s screw ups. Here are some details from Bloomberg View:

In a closed-door meeting with Jewish donors on Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State.

It’s about time. One of the problems with Bush was that he would never fight back when he was attacked by the Democrats.

The former president, who rarely ever criticizes Obama in public, at first remarked that the idea of re-entering the political arena was something he didn’t want to do. He then proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in “retreat” around the world. He also said Obama was misreading Iran’s intentions while relaxing sanctions on Tehran too easily.

I’m one of those who thinks that Obama is well aware of Iran’s intentions and probably supports them. Why do I say that? No one can be this incompetent.

Bush said that Obama’s plan to lift sanctions on Iran with a promise that they could snap back in place at any time was not plausible. He also said the deal would be bad for American national security in the long term: “You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal.”

Don’t forget how things were in the Middle East January 20^th, 2009. Things were generally quiet, Iraq was stabilizing and was in what the military calls “The Mop Up Phase.” Afghanistan was still a problem, but the Taliban were generally on the run. Look at how things are now in the region.

Bush then went into a detailed criticism of Obama’s policies in fighting the Islamic State and dealing with the chaos in Iraq. On Obama’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of 2011, he quoted Senator Lindsey Graham calling it a “strategic blunder.” Bush signed an agreement with the Iraqi government to withdraw those troops, but the idea had been to negotiate a new status of forces agreement to keep U.S. forces there past 2011. The Obama administration tried and failed to negotiate such an agreement.

Let’s be honest here. Bush never thought that Obama would simply walk away from Iraq and let all the blood and treasure we spent go down the drain. Obama came in with his typical “My way or the Highway” attitude and when the Iraqi’s balked, Obama said “Fine. See if I care what happens to you.” We’ve seen the results of his stupidity with the rise of ISIS.

Obama promised to degrade and destroy Islamic State’s forces but then didn’t develop a strategy to complete the mission, Bush said. He said that if you have a military goal and you mean it, “you call in your military and say ‘What’s your plan?’ ” He indirectly touted his own decision to surge troops to Iraq in 2007, by saying, “When the plan wasn’t working in Iraq, we changed.”

Obama’s plan has been gutting the military, not asking them how to destroy the enemy.

“In order to be an effective president …when you say something you have to mean it,” he said. “You gotta kill em.”

What makes you think Obama was ever going to be an effective president? He was over his head when he was a state senator in Illinois. Bush made a number of significant mistakes while President that we’re dealing with now. It’s still an open question on going into Iraq, and the way the occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan, at least in the early years, is a case study in what not to do. Bush’s only advantage was that he would learn from his mistakes and try to take corrective action. Obama? He doubles down on stupid, then doubles down again just before he tee’s off.

Thatisall

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