On Hillary

Hillary’s Bad Week  "The presumed 2016 candidate has bounced boisterously from gaffe to gaffe."

 

Hillary: Russian Reset 'A Brilliant Stroke'  " In an interview to promote her book on BBC, Hillary Clinton called the Russian so-called reset "a brilliant stroke." The statement came in response to a question about whether she was in retrospect embarrassed about the policy." 

 

Hillary Clinton: Taliban Five Not a Threat to U.S.  ... "Adopting Mrs. Clinton’s own reasoning, I don’t see the, shall we say, remarkable judgment she exhibited at the State Department as a threat to her presidential ambitions, not at all."

President Obama Wasted American Victory and Lost Iraq: What Now?

NRO   "This is what happens when a president declares an end to a war that wasn’t truly over."
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"What now? Obviously we cannot return in force on the ground. The American people simply would not abide it. But we’re not helpless and can at least take action to prevent total disaster. I suggest five steps:"
1. Provide air support if necessary to protect the Kurds, our most faithful Iraqi allies for more than a generation. If we allow the Kurds to be swallowed up in the fighting, we’ll send a disastrous message to all our close allies that we are utterly faithless — that indeed our friendship is deadly....
 
2. Condition any direct military support for the Maliki government on the removal of Iranian forces from the country. The United States Air Force must not become close air support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, thereby using American air power to turn southern Iraq into a virtual Iranian province. There are reports of thousands of Shiite fighters rallying to defend Baghdad, and it’s possible that they’ll be able to at least stabilize the front. If they can’t — and if they’re Iraqi and not Iranian — we should consider American strikes to keep the capital from falling.
 
3. Defend our embassy.... Jihad thrives on victory, and the image of occupying the American embassy would lift the Sunni radicals far more than any victory thus far.
 
4. Demand an overhaul of the Obama national-security team. That team — including of course Susan Rice and the hapless secretary of defense — is completely out of its depth. ...We have to replace the political hacks with warriors, or the war will come home once again.
 
5. Educate the American people. This is perhaps the most difficult task. The American people have to understand that the violence sweeping the Middle East has direct implications for our own security. The jihadists fighting each other are doing so only as a prelude to taking on the real enemy — the United States. A “Fortress America” approach can keep out large groups of terrorists, but it doesn’t take large groups to wreak havoc. We have to demonstrate to our citizens that the Obama Doctrine of withdrawal and defeat is the pathway to genocide abroad and violence at home. It may be too late for Iraq, but it’s not too late for Afghanistan. Total withdrawal there will likely yield similar results. 

Lois Lerner and the corruption of this third-world government

A dog ate 2 years of Lois Lerner’s emails. Now what?  "So the IRS suffered a catastrophic hard disk failure and, lo and behold! two years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished: poof! Just like that. Imagine. Evidence of those happy days targeting conservative groups, gone. So much for the memoir. Eliana Johnson reports that Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is really steamed. He has even asked the Justice Department to look into it.  “The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” he said in a statement. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

"Still laughing? Yes, that would be Eric Holder’s Justice Department.  Don’t hold your breath, Mr. Camp."

Andrew C. McCarthy:  Lois Lerner’s ‘Lost’ Emails
"When will this president finally have to answer for the executive-branch lawlessness that is an everyday occurrence on his watch?"



 

House Ways and Means Commitee chairman Dave Camp has hit a roadblock in his investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups: The IRS says it has lost over two years’ worth of e-mails sent by former agency official Lois Lerner, the one of the chief subjects of the committee’s investigation.

Iraq before Obama. The Obama administration tells us how much better it was by 2012 thanks to Obama

Power Line   ...

"When we arrived in November 2007, in Diyala Province (labeled the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq by the al-Qaeda forces in control) every time any convoy rolled out of the gate, it had a greater than 25 percent chance of enemy contact — IEDs, ambushes, or sniper fire. When we left in late September 2008, that chance was down to approximately 1 percent."

... "Fortunately, our presidents, both Republican and Democrat, preserved our hard-won success in South Korea. It wasn’t the easy thing to do, but it was the right thing.

"President Obama opted for the easy thing. In doing so, he has given away what brave Americans gave their life to win.

"Indeed, Obama has disserved our Iraq War veterans both coming and going. Barring a reversal in Iraq, he has rendered their sacrifices a virtual nullity and he has failed to provide so many of them with the health care they were promised."

 "What a guy."  Full article.

Obama Campaign 2012: President Obama Responsibly Ended The War In Iraq   "It’s Friday the 13th and there’s a full moon tonight. I think we all deserve a good laugh to keep our minds off of the impending werewolf attacks. I came across a list of accomplishments on barackobama.com from Halloween 2012, just prior to the election, and it is a side-splitter.

"There’s plenty of horn-tooting about all of the jobs Obama claims to have created and tax cuts he pretends exist, but the real comedy lies further down the list:

                27. President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

Then there is this one:

28. He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.

Another testimony to the honor and integrity of this president who was the darling of Hollywood, academia, the media, and all low-information voters everywhere:

31. Through the President’s historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our returning veterans.