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In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, Leon Panetta speaks during his last news conference as defense secretary at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
It’s going to be a rough week for President Obama, thanks in part to his former CIA director and defense secretary, Leon Panetta, who in an interview published this morning said the president has “kind of lost his way.”
By not pressing the Iraqi government to leave more U.S. troops in the country, he “created a vacuum in terms of the ability of that country to better protect itself, and it’s out of that vacuum that ISIS began to breed,” Panetta told USA Today, referring to the group also known as the Islamic State.
The interview was the first of what inevitably will be a series as he promotes his book, “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace,” which is sharply critical of Obama’s handling of the troop withdrawal from Iraq, Syria and the advance of the Islamic State.
In the book, Panetta writes that Obama has a “frustrating reticence to engage his opponents and rally support for his cause” and too frequently “relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader.” Sometimes, he writes Obama “avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities.”
“I think we’re looking at kind of a 30-year war” that will also sweep in conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and Libya, he told USA Today’s Susan Page.
Such criticism is widespread among Republicans but mostly muttered privately by Democrats. Having it come from a stalwart Democrat such as Panetta — widely admired for his work in Congress, at the Pentagon and at the CIA — will sting and provide sure fodder for Republicans in the remaining weeks of campaigning before the midterm elections.
Sorry Leon. You should have had the courage to speak up when it really mattered. Not now when you are out hocking your new book.
Anybody with half a brain can see that President Obama was, and is, nothing but a smarmy little Demagogue whose only real accomplishment in life is learning to read a TelePrompter. You chose to "serve" in that cesspool, so shut the fuck up.
Sorry Leon. You should have had the courage to speak up when it really mattered. Not now when you are out hocking your new book.
Anybody with half a brain can see that President Obama was, and is, nothing but a smarmy little Demagogue whose only real accomplishment in life is learning to read a TelePrompter. You chose to "serve" in that cesspool, so shut the fuck up.
I think his point is that he wouldn't have done it that way, & Obama screwed up. Everything was fine as long as they did it the Panetta way. Self validation, and it sells books, plus the right wing will hawk it for him.
Doesn't Panetta know the literacy level of today's uneducated white,(I knew you were an anti-monoculturalist) er, right?
They will buy it just to poke Obama, sort of like you partisan hacks are going to vote for Hillary, even though she will continue to destroy the country with the same liberal policies that have been degrading the country since the 1960's.
They will buy it just to poke Obama, sort of like you partisan hacks are going to vote for Hillary, even though she will continue to destroy the country with the same liberal policies that have been degrading the country since the 1960's.
Panetta is a Clinton crony ... he not only is trying to make a buck but he is trying to get Hillary elected.
Remember my right wing loony friends , Obama is not running again but Bill is!
The reality is that President Obama was left with no good choices. A forever war or quacking from the cheap seats about getting our people out of the middle eastern shitholes that the Republicans dropped them into.
The reality is that President Obama was left with no good choices. A forever war or quacking from the cheap seats about getting our people out of the middle eastern shitholes that the Republicans dropped them into.
Yeah, Little Timmy-tard, REALITY has a way of bitch-slapping the shit out of incompetent and stupidly naive mutha fuckers like your community organizer: Odumbo.
The reality is that President Obama was left with no good choices. A forever war or quacking from the cheap seats about getting our people out of the middle eastern shitholes that the Republicans dropped them into.
A president is required to deal with a situation as it finds it, not as he wishes it to be.....all his military leaders gave him advice he refused to take......Odumbo is just too weak, anti-American and incompetent to be president.....
Yeah, Little Timmy-tard, REALITY has a way of bitch-slapping the shit out of incompetent and stupidly naive mutha fuckers like your community organizer: Odumbo.
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Originally Posted by LowRider69
A president is required to deal with a situation as it finds it, not as he wishes it to be.....all his military leaders gave him advice he refused to take......Odumbo is just too weak, anti-American and incompetent to be president.....
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Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
anyone voting democrat should be shot for treason, utter stupidity, or being found covetous while slothful, or for perhaps all three
Leon Panetta: Obama has ‘lost his way,’
