{"id":54463,"date":"2014-08-09T14:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54463"},"modified":"2014-08-09T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:51:46","slug":"what-no-arbitrary-withdrawal-from-iraq-date-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54463","title":{"rendered":"What? No arbitrary withdrawal date from Iraq is set?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I remember that Charlie Rangel, when Operation Just Cause was hours old, was asking for a definite date to cease operations in Panama. Before we even deployed to the Middle East for Desert Storm, Congress wanted a date certain for withdrawal. Of course, for most of the Iraq War, the Left was pestering President Bush for an end date for operations there. But now, for some reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-airstrikes-destroyed-arms-equipment-144655183--politics.html\">it&#8217;s not important for this<\/a>, the third war in Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America&#8217;s renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn&#8217;t think &#8220;we are going to solve this problem in weeks&#8221; as the country struggles to form a new government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is going to take some time,&#8221; he said at the White House before departing for a vacation on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast.<\/p>\n<p>Obama warned Americans that the new campaign to bring security in Iraq requires military and political changes and &#8220;is going to be a long-term project.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the same thing Bush said, but there was an outcry from the media talking heads about how Bush was out of his depth and inexperienced in the working of these things when he said that the global war on terror would be a long and arduous task. But, the silence in this case is deafening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2014\/08\/08\/congress-accepts-obama-action-on-iraq-for-now\/?mod=WSJBlog\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports that Democrats in Congress are generally supportive of the President.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D., Md.) said that the threat of the Islamic State was serious and urged the U.S. to assemble a group of allies to respond. \u201cIn the end, it\u2019s going to take more than air, so we have to get a coalition together,\u201d Mr. Ruppersberger said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, good luck with that, I&#8217;m sure our allies are beating down the door to join a coalition after the way either they abandoned us or we abandoned them over the last 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember that Charlie Rangel, when Operation Just Cause was hours old, was asking for a &hellip; <a title=\"What? 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