Navy Pride
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2005
- Messages
- 39,883
- Reaction score
- 3,070
- Location
- Pacific NW
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
I always thought he was a pretty square shooter. Its great to see and Obama surrogate tell the truth for once.
Panetta unloads on White House for pulling US forces out of Iraq | Fox News
October 2 2014
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is lashing out at President Obama’s inner circle for failing to secure a 2011 deal to leave U.S. troops in Iraq, effectively accusing the White House of sabotaging the talks – in turn, opening the door for the region to become a haven for the Islamic State.
Panetta, who served as CIA director and then Defense secretary during those negotiations, aired his complaints in his forthcoming memoir, “Worthy Fights.” Excerpts on the Baghdad talks were published by Time.
Leon Panetta just like Robert Gates are long time "yes men" in government. But they do their jobs and didn't allowed themselves to become politicized no matter who's administration they worked for.
But Panetta and Gates are the only two competent appointees that Obama ever made to serve in his failed administration during the past six years and nine months.
I'm sure Panetta is going out of his way trying to be kind towards Obama just like Gates did in his book.
Particularly the bolded. Sure you did. Anything, even a monkey critical of Obama would be on your friends list.
Oh please Apache, you know better then that. If either of them were to be "nice" they would have waited until Obama was finished with his presidency to write books.
As usual attack the OP. The facts speak for themselves.
I always thought he was a pretty square shooter. Its great to see and Obama surrogate tell the truth for once.
Panetta unloads on White House for pulling US forces out of Iraq | Fox News
October 2 2014
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is lashing out at President Obama’s inner circle for failing to secure a 2011 deal to leave U.S. troops in Iraq, effectively accusing the White House of sabotaging the talks – in turn, opening the door for the region to become a haven for the Islamic State.
Panetta, who served as CIA director and then Defense secretary during those negotiations, aired his complaints in his forthcoming memoir, “Worthy Fights.” Excerpts on the Baghdad talks were published by Time.
In them, Panetta explained that Iraqi leaders privately wanted some U.S. forces to stay behind after the formal 2011 withdrawal, though they would not say so publicly. The former secretary, though, said the U.S. had “leverage” to strike a deal, and the Defense and State departments tried to do exactly that.
“But,” he wrote, “the President’s team at the White House pushed back, and the differences occasionally became heated. … and those on our side viewed the White House as so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.”
Oh please Apache, you know better then that. If either of them were to be "nice" they would have waited until Obama was finished with his presidency to write books.
Oh please Apache, you know better then that. If either of them were to be "nice" they would have waited until Obama was finished with his presidency to write books.
Μολὼν λαβέ;1063824011 said:Telling their side of the story now is not being nice?
Does Obama deserve that pass? Absolutely not. It's just one more indicator of his incompetence from someone on the inside.
Panetta unloads.
For national security reasons, they couldn't wait.
We've spent billions of dollars and a decade training the Iraqi army.
They wilted at the mere sight of the ISIS.
I guess we were wasting our time and money....either our training was ineffective or the Iraqis won't fight for their freedom..:shrug:
It's their land.....and they won't fight for it.
Too bad.
What's that suppose to mean?
Just like the Army's Chief of Staff going public that only 3 combat brigades out of 33 were classified as being combat ready last year. That information is usually classified for two years. I suppose the General decided for national security reasons it was important enough to let the American people know how bad things really are.
Kind of ruins the myth that Obama couldn't convince the Iraqi government to leave some residual troops in place to guide the Iraqi's
Not exactly. We issued the terms of a continued presence and they rejected them. What these unnamed "Iraqi leaders" may or may not have said privately is irrelevant.
Apache was the one that said they were being nice.
Not according to the supplied quote or anything in the article. If you have a reliable source to support this rather vapid claim, I suggest you supply it. In the meantime the Secretary of Defense at the time says differently.....we'll take that, thanks.
Just a suggestion, but did you actually read the article, or just whip it out there?
We've spent billions of dollars and a decade training the Iraqi army.
They wilted at the mere sight of the ISIS.
I guess we were wasting our time and money....either our training was ineffective or the Iraqis won't fight for their freedom..:shrug:
It's their land.....and they won't fight for it.
Too bad.
In Robert Gates case, I was just repeating what Gates said.
As for Panneta, I'm sure he want's to distance himself from Obama as much as possible and the same is probably true with Gates.
But some are saying that Panneta is a Hillary Clinton man and also wants to distance Hillary from Obama.
You're talking about a community organizer who got elected as President who had no experience at anything.
Yeah, that's what I think too, it's all politics, no substance and of course he and Hillary go back twenty five years, and of course she needs to be as far away from Obama as Romney needed to be from Bush. Anything new?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?