Does Obama deserve blame for the Iraq mess?

[Drunken Irishman]

My right-wing family member seems to think so. Every time there is a negative story on the press about someone dying over there, he posts that it's Obama's fault and to impeach him over it.

So, is this what the Iraq legacy will be - blaming Obama?

[spanone]

1. tell him to blame the bozos that started it...george & dick

[northoftheborder]

2. NO. Blame for situation in Iraq squarely on Bush, Cheney, et al.

[Mister Ed]

3. Remind your RW family member that Obama:

1) Inherited Bush's war
2) Retained Bush's Secretary of Defense, and
3) Followed Bush's strategy through to its conclusion.

[bravenak]

5. DING, DING, DING!!!

We have a winner!!!!
Of course it's Obama's fault now. Of course it is.


Everything he ever did ever is wrong.

[beachbum bob]

4. reminded your family member what admin LIED

to get the US into the war in the first place

[bravenak]

6. I just tell my right wingers to shut up and stop watching bullshit on teevee.

The I laugh at them.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Obama, why didn't you make something GOOD come out of the biggest foreign policy clusterfuck

since Vietnam, that also happened to be waged on pure fraud? Why didn't you make all those soldiers' sacrifices and all those billions and all that bloodshed WORTH it?

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Blame? Of course not, that's just ludicrous. Another missed opportunity to make something

good come out of the bag of shit he fought for and won, yes.

[NuclearDem]

9. The only blame he deserves is for not turning Bush et al over to The Hague.

[11 Bravo]

10. Let's see... he didn't start it ... he's going to end it ... so yeah, I guess in wingnut world ...

it's TOTALLY his fault!

[okaawhatever]

11. The same people complaining that Iraq is falling back into it's pre-war violence are the ones

who blame Obama for not getting out of Afghanistan sooner or wanting to keep a transitional force there until Afghanistan can police themselves.

[Wounded Bear]

16. There wasn't any "pre-war" violence in Iraq...

The violence didn't start until we invaded.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. The ironic thing about Iraq

Is that it wasn't in chaos prior to our invasion. It was ruled by a brutal tyrant along with his nutjob sons and he did not treat his citizens well to say the least but there were no suicide bombings or chaos like there is now.

[Spirochete]

12. Of course it is

He took over control of George W Fuckstain's mind in 2003, and made him invade them.

[Finnmccool]

13. It was Bush that signed the SOFA

Obama just honored it.

[spin]

14. No. (n/t)

[B Calm]

15. No, I blame Bush for Iraq and the Afghanistan wars! Bush

is the one who got us into this mess and Obama is getting us out.

[on point]

18. NONE. Bush and the sucker public own Iraq

[Cha]

19. They are brainwashed DI.. Poor

things!