MSNBC's O'Donnell Absurdly Claims U.S. Military 'Chose' to Stay in Iraq
When anti-war liberals are pressed about whether they are anti-military, they normally claim to support the troops while disagreeing with the war the troops are under orders to take part in.
But, as he introduced Thursday's Last Word show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell certainly sounded like he was attacking the U.S. military as he not only absurdly suggested that it was the U.S. military, rather than the President, that "chose" to "stay encamped for nearly nine years" in Iraq, but he even recounted the number of Iraqi civilians killed by both the U.S. military and Iraqi insurgents combined.
O'Donnell began his Thursday, December 15, Last Word program on MSNBC (Video and transcript follow):
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began at 5:34 a.m. local time on March 20, 2003, with the goal of finding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. After finding that Iraq had no such weapons, the United States military chose not to leave but to stay encamped for nearly nine years.
While losing 4,487 American lives and suffering an additional 32,226 Americans wounded in Iraq, the number of Iraqi civilians killed by the U.S. military and by the warring insurgent factions, estimates are at least 100,000, but the exact number is now impossible to know. Our history books will show today to be the last day of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke today in a fortified courtyard at Baghdad's airport as military helicopters hovered above him.
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Submitted by Crash on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 7:12am.
So, Obama chose to withdraw before the election what to prove to his base that he is still a liberal?
I just don't get it
Submitted by dmacleo on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 8:52am.
the military does not get to choose, they are ordered there by the CIC. would be damn nice if we had a CIC now........
the drawdown date was set by Bush, Obama just gets to benefit from it.
they DID find wmd's, the chem weapons that had been reported as destroyed.
O'Donnell choses to ignore the Constitution . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 9:19am.
. . . which should come as no surprise, because the President does as well.
The armed forces of this nation deploy and fight on orders from the Commander in Chief. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advise the Commander in Chief directly, or (more commonly) through the Secretary of State.
It is not in the Constitutional authority of the armed forces of the United States to elect whom, when, and where to fight outside of the orders given to them by the Commander in Chief.
Just
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:14pm.
another example of a uneducated member of msdnc and a full blown repulsive hate -filled buffoon. Wish his "Last word" would be his last word and he would go away. His show is so low, it doesn't appear on the list of viewers Drudge posts on his page. Looking/listening to him makes me think he is the most miserable jerk on earth and does nothing to help his extremely low audiences. Pathetic!!!
Just
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:17pm.
another example of a uneducated member of msdnc and a full blown repulsive hate -filled buffoon. Wish his "Last word" would be his last word and he would go away. His show is so low, it doesn't appear on the list of viewers Drudge posts on his page. Looking/listening to him makes me think he is the most miserable jerk on earth and does nothing to help his extremely low audiences. Pathetic!!!
stay encamped for...
Submitted by CarlosS on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:00pm.
Maybe it was those unruly military "Occupy Iraq" bunch (sarc humor off)
Wait A Minute...
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:06pm.
Ron Paul said last night during the debate that we lost 8000 in Iraq and we killed 1,000,000 Iraqi's. O'Donnell needs to get all her talking points correct, otherwise crazy Uncle Ron will come up out of the basement and whine some more.
MSDNC
Submitted by Kleenex on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:53pm.
This guy is a lefty nut-job just like the rest of their line up. The network is a joke and blatantly pro-Obama. Only the diehard left get their "news" here. They pull up the rear in ratings. Comcast probably uses this network as a tax write off, because they sure can't be making any money from it.