President Obama delivers a statement about the ongoing U.S. military actions and humanitarian drops in northern Iraq on the south lawn of the White House Aug. 9. (Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
Re: “Paying for the 2003 invasion of Iraq,” Aug. 12 Eugene Robinson column.
With his usual knee-jerk, blame-Bush, Obama-can-do-no-wrong mentality, Eugene Robinson proves once again that leftists of his ilk are more interested in absolving the worst president in more than a century than in truth — protecting a president who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, who lost a war that was won.
Robinson ignores the following: 1) Partisan fighting in Iraq was dramatically reduced by the time George W. Bush left office; 2) Barack Obama’s failure to even try to negotiate a “status of forces” agreement and removal of all coalition forces eliminated any ability to influence political or military developments; and 3) Obama refused to attack ISIS in Syria or as it marched openly into and across Iraq — a time when ISIS could have been decimated.
Thanks to Obama’s policies and incompetence, the world is a more dangerous place today.
We are witnessing the most egregious presidential non-feasance in our history.
Jon Bushnell, Littleton
This letter was published in the Aug. 18 edition.
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