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In reply to the discussion: Documents show how Russia's troll army hit America [View all]R B Garr
(17,936 posts)from the Bush era even though Obama opposed the Iraq war. Here's the text of Obama's 2002 speech in opposition to Bush's war: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99591469
Of course the Putin lovers/Obama haters forget that the whole political climate at that time revolved around 9/11 and almost all politicians, right or wrong, were mindful of the polls that heavily supported military intervention. Bush and his overlords just inserted Iraq and WMD in the whole dialogue and nobody stopped them. Now some here are making it sound like Obama was in on the shock and awe strategy from the beginning. No!
There's an old saying, I think it's military: "overcome by events". Since there have been boots on the ground, however they got there, US foreign policy under Obama has been overcome by the events that are actually encountered in Iraq and the Middle East since 2003. You can't treat what's going on now based on what was going on in the beginning, yet there are a couple tag teams that spam threads with really worn out and inappropriate talking points about Bush era neocons. Not credible!