Young Americans for Liberty did a project a while back comparing Bush and Obama, so I wrote a new column for
Digital Journal that details Obama's military actions despite him being seen as a peaceful president and better-than-the-GOP candidate.
Quote:
The Iraq War is Officially Over, announced the newspapers two months ago. Obviously not the first time it ended, individuals were correct to be skeptical. The removal of troops from Iraq had nothing to do with the current president fulfilling a promise to end the occupation; it was a result of a deal cut by the Bush administration. So, in a way, no progress had been made at all since that deal three years ago. In fact, just the opposite had been occurring. Glenn Greenwald explains that the Obama administration had long lobbied to keep several thousand troops in the country, but the Iraqi government rejected demands to provide American soldiers with legal immunity and therefore a continued US presence became a non-option. A non-official presence is another story.
Read the entire column here!