You know jmc, I had a response to your whole post, but then I came to this part:
So you believe that Obama wanted Iraq to fall apart and for genocide to happen just so he could make Bush look bad. I'm not even sure how to respond to that. I mean, this is borderline conspiracy theory thinking here and I honestly don't think I can even have an intelligent debate with you if this is what you really believe.
I mean, I am as big a critic of the Bush administration as anybody, but even I wouldn't make an accusation like that against him. It's one thing to accuse someone of being incompetent and thus causing horrible things to happen, but to accuse someone of wanting genocide to happen for petty reasons.
Wow.
I'm done.
He wanted to be proved right that the Iraq War was evil and believed as he said it would break into genocidal war when we left and that we had to leave ASAP.
It's going too far to say he wanted to see genocide happen, but he believed it would happen once we pulled out and I believe he saw the possibility of it occuring as a vindication of his original opposition to the war.
This was early Obama mind you. I think by 2013 he was just hoping to keep the Syrian civil war from spilling over while doing as little as possible.
So no he didn't want genocide to happen, he believed it would in 2007 when we left, he believed we should do nothing to help head it off and I believe he thought it would vindicate his original opposition to the war. The most positive thing I will ever say about Obama is I think he has grown somewhat from those years.
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