Mattis: You Won’t Believe How Obama And Biden Bungled Iraq And Allowed The Rise Of ISIS

[Bigun]

Mattis: You Won’t Believe How Obama And Biden Bungled Iraq And Allowed The Rise Of ISIS

ED MORRISSEYPosted at 2:01 pm on September 3, 2019

Be careful what you wish for. Democrats looking for ways to attack Donald Trump have been licking their chops at the prospect of a James Mattis tell-all memoir. Unfortunately for them, Mattis has indeed written such a book, but it tells all about Mattis’ observations of their front runner, Joe Biden, and his former boss Barack Obama.

The Washington Examiner got a sneak peek of Mattis’ new memoir Call Sign Chaos, and it’s not pretty. While Mattis warned of the risks of a sudden withdrawal in 2011, Biden refused to listen:

I found him an admirable and amiable man. But he was past the point where he was willing to entertain a ‘good idea.’ He didn’t want to hear more; he wanted our forces out of Iraq. Whatever path led there fastest, he favored,” Mattis writes. “He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly.”

Biden reassured Mattis that Maliki wouldn’t eject all American troops from the country.

“Maliki wants us to stick around, because he does not see a future in Iraq otherwise,” Biden said. “I’ll bet you my vice presidency.”

Mattis doesn’t say whether he tried to collect on that bet. As he writes, “In October 2011, Prime Minister Maliki and President Obama agreed that all U.S. forces would leave at the end of the year.”

Mattis’ warnings proved prescient, as Maliki, free of American influence, went after Sunni politicians and districts, alienating a third of the country. “Iraq slipped back into escalating violence. It was like watching a car wreck in slow motion,” Mattis writes. A Sunni revolt and a weak Iraqi Army allowed al Qaeda-aligned terrorists to return in 2014, calling themselves the Islamic State...

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[Bigun]

Not only would I believe it, I predicted it and know it to be true Mr. Morrissey!

The Presidency of the United States for Barrack Husein Obama was bought and paid for by the Iranian Mullah regime and Obama was loyal to them right down the line. His controller (Valarie Jarrett) made sure of that!

[TomSea]

All of Obama's advisors were against it, except I suppose Biden and maybe a few others inside the administration.

To me, ISIS is no different than the Nazis, pure evil.

Folks want to largely withdraw from Afghanistan pronto too,  I notice Bigun, you seem to be asleep at the wheel on that one. We need to hear your voice.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,373633.0.html

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,373829.0.html

[Bigun]

All of Obama's advisors were against it, except I suppose Biden and maybe a few others inside the administration.

To me, ISIS is no different than the Nazis, pure evil.

Folks want to largely withdraw from Afghanistan pronto too,  I notice Bigun, you seem to be asleep at the wheel on that one. We need to hear your voice.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,373633.0.html

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,373829.0.html

Far from asleep @TomSea and my voice will be heard at the appropriate time.  Not before.