Obama Has Bombed Twice as Many Countries as Bush

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Obama Has Bombed Twice as Many Countries as Bush



By J. Wilson

Every President changes significantly once they're elected and actually in the White House. It happened to small government conservative George Bush who made speeches about cutting government and a restrained foreign policy in the 90's. He turned out to be one of the biggest government Republicans in decades by creating new departments, expanding Medicare, starting two wars, and bombing two other countries. His small government beliefs completely evaporated by the time he left office.

Then Barack Obama was elected because of his campaign of hope and change. He won because he ran against the wars and against the big government security state. But, just like Bush, he changed his tune once in office. Obama kept the Iraq War going exactly as long as Bush wanted him to. He followed the timetable that Bush had negotiated to the letter. Obama actually changed Bush?s plan for the Afghanistan War though, by extending it. Obama has promised to keep troops there until 2016, which is two years longer than Bush had originally planned.

Obama has bombed Pakistan and Somalia too, just like Bush did. Then he started a new drone war in Yemen and a new bombing campaign in Libya. That added two new countries to Obama's list. This was all in the first couple years of Obama's presidency.

All of those wars, except for the Iraq War and bombing Libya, are still going. Obama is still bombing Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and waging war in Afghanistan. Then with the advent of ISIS he added Iraq to his bombing list once again. Since this is a new war in a new Iraq, it should count as a new country for Obama. It's not the same country or war that it was under Bush. That will bring Obama's bombing total up to seven countries. Then the government announced that they had conducted the first airstrikes in Syria, that makes eight countries.

In less than six years Obama has bombed twice as many countries as Bush did in eight. That's quite a performance from a so-called anti-war liberal. It also proves that Democrats are just as okay with war as Republicans are, or just that they only protest war when it?s being waged by a Republican.


Bush
1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Pakistan
4. Yemen

Obama
1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Pakistan
4. Yemen
5. Somalia
6. Libya
7. Iraq (Again)
8. Syria

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[sirs]

Just more validation why I'm a Quality over Quantity guy, .... Substance over Style

[Xavier_Onassis]

A stupid post.

[sirs]

Which tells us then how spot on, it must be.  Thanks for the validation, xo

[Xavier_Onassis]

We could compare the number of American troops killed in wars Obama started. That would make more sense.

[sirs]

apples / oranges, I'm afraid, since Obama hasn't "started" a war.  He's merely stoking them

[Xavier_Onassis]

Yeah, he is deliberately trying to prolong wars.

Why would he do that?

McCain and Graham are the ones who want more wars.

[sirs]

Why he does much of what he does, is to try and make himself appear "bigger" than what he really is.  I'd say much of it has to do with ignorance combined with arrogance, where he seriously believes that if we place nice, and only poke Islamic terrorists with the occasional drone strike, that they'll see how wonderful we are, and just stop on their own.

Whatever the "why" is, the "how" is demonstrating to be a catastrophic failure

[Plane]

Yeah, he is deliberately trying to prolong wars.

Why would he do that?

McCain and Graham are the ones who want more wars.

No.

   McCain did not enjoy his war experience, neither did Dole or President George H. Bush.

   I would daresay that even Grant and Eisenhower would remember War as a miserable experience.

  Obama draws out these wars by just not being good at it. Perhaps he thought that just because he would not be aggressive there would be less war, but this is just not how it works.

    In my opinion voting for a commander in chief who does not understand the conduct of war , is tantamount to voting for more war.

[Xavier_Onassis]

No president has been worse at waging war than Juniorbush.  Obama is simply trying to undo the horrible mess that Juniorbush and Cheney made.  The American people are sick of invasions and Congress will not fund any major operation. This country has proven that it cannot install and maintain a peaceful government in a Muskim nation. Some things are impossible and should not be attempted.

Juniorbush pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall, and you rightwing loons are blaming Obama for being sufficiently competent as the kings horses and the kings men at putting him back together again. All the Republicans in the Congress do is refuse to feed the kings horses or the kings men.

[sirs]

Removing troops isn't "undoing" anything.  All Obama is doing is stoking war, that now is inevitable with his "deal" he made with Iran

And do you want to know why this country is having a current massive surge in legal firearm purchasing?  It's because of this overt lack of leadership.  With how much of a failure his foreign policy has been, allowing ISIS to expand exponentially under his watch, trying to downplay them as some supposed JV team.  Add to that his actions on trying to make our border as unsecure as possible under executive fiat, with his intentions on flooding this country with hardly vettable Syrian refugees, and you get people in this country simply having no faith that this President (& his party) will protect them.  So they do the only thing they can.....they arm themselves.