As ISIS Terrorists Bury Women & Children Alive, Obama Lies That Ending Iraq War ‘Wasn’t His Idea’

It’s pathological. Saturday morning, President Obama followed up on a message that he had uttered a few months ago: Withdrawing from Iraqwasn’t his idea.

This is what the president responded after being asked: “Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq? And does it give you pause as the U.S. — is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?”

What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision…

So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq.

Does the president realize that the U.S. went to war in Iraq and has a vested stake in that nation’s security? The president doesn’t get “told” by the post-Hussein government whether or not the U.S. will protect Iraq from al Qaeda or other terrorists. Period.

Here is what the president said along the same lines in June 2014, when asked about maintaining a residual force in Iraq (hint: it’s someone else’s fault):

Never mind that it was a campaign pledge in 2007 to “end the war” in Iraq within 16 months of being in office. And by the way, “you can take that to the bank”:

Never mind that his backtracking began almost immediately after he was elected. Here is Obama circa December 2008:

“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary — likely to be necessary — to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq.”

The president then “spiked the football” about single-handedly pulling troops out of Iraq in 2011. Here is what he said, followed by video of his speech:

“I ran for this office in part to end our war in Iraq and welcome our troops home, and that’s what we’ve done. As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq. And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq.”

Now here is the reality of what’s going on in Iraq, since the U.S. left a gaping power vacuum for ISIS terrorists (aka “al Qaeda’s JV squad“).Breitbart picked up on the story, which originally came via Reuters:

Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq’s human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday.

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.

The ISIS terrorists told the Yazidis to convert to Islam or die. In at least some cases, those who “convert” are still killed in a horrific manner. This follows upon weeks of gruesome reports of Christians and other minorities being killed in awful ways, such as by crucifixion and decapitation.

As President Obama takes yet another vacation at an incredibly inopportune time for America (not to mention for the Iraqis being summarily executed by terrorists), even the media seem to be noticing that this “Commander-in-Chief” is not only weak, but incapable of taking responsibility.

Maybe they should have noticed that while they were promoting a community organizer with the gift of gab to leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

Update: Joel Gehrke at National Review Online wrote in-depth about the “it’s all Bush’s fault” rejoinder (re: the “status of forces” agreement):

A report in The New Yorker showed how President Obama failed to secure the status of forces agreement necessary to leave the troops in place after 2011.

 Imagine the buck actually stops with Obama!