Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we hear from Democrats a lot these days about ``ending the Iraq war.'' Let's pause for a moment to remember the first time they ``ended the Iraq war.'' President Obama pulled American troops out of Iraq just over a decade ago. The ``dumb'' war, as Obama called it, was finally over--except it wasn't. It turns out those American troops had kept a lid on a lot of chaos. When they left, the bad guys came back with a vengeance. President Obama dismissed ISIS as the ``JV team'' of the terrorist world, but even he couldn't turn a blind eye when ISIS seized Fallujah just 2 years after our troops left Iraq, then Mosul a few months later, and then threatened to bring all of Iraq into their so-called caliphate. So, ultimately, President Obama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and great ender of the Iraq war, had to start a new Iraq war not even 3 years after he had bugged out, although actually it was an Iraq-Syria war. Obama's retreat backfired so badly that he had to deploy our troops to two countries this time, not one. And guess which use-of- force resolution President Obama cited to fight ISIS. The same one that President Trump relied on in 2020 to kill Iran's terrorist mastermind, Qasem Soleimani, which is the same resolution Democrats want to repeal today. All of which goes to show that this debate is not about Saddam Hussein; it is about whether the President--whether any President should have maximum authority to pursue America's enemies in Iraq and Syria.…”