FAILED ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO SPENT HER SAD AND PATHETIC CHILDHOOD ON SETS AND DIDN'T HAVE THE CHANCE TO GET A GOOD EDUCATION OR EVEN AN OKAY ONE.
THIS IS WHY SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND BASIC BIOLOGY.
THEIR BALLS? IT TAKES A NON-FEMINIST AND WOMAN HATER LIKE ALYSSA TO USE BALLS IN THE STATEMENT ABOVE. WOMEN DON'T HAVE BALLS, ALYSSA.
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I can't be the only one that wishes Ben Rhodes would stay hidden under his rock. I imagine anyone in the White House during Barack Obama's two terms as president has to wish Ben would go off the grid. Until he does, we have . . . Tweets like this.
Iraq has enormous challenges but worth noting that it has come a long way from the Maliki-Abadi transition.
Was the Maliki-Abadi transition difficult, Ben?
How strange because, for example, some of us noted it here -- noted how difficult it was in real time only to have you thunder to the contrary. But maybe your dramatic rage was fueled by the fact that we weren't just noting how difficult that transition was (while you were insisting it was smooth sailing) but we were noting why that transition was difficult.
Because of Barack.
In **2014**, Nouri wanted a third term as prime minister. Yes, he'd said he wouldn't seek a third term back in 2011 and 2012 but that was back when measures were being taken to vote him out of office via a no confidence vote in Parliament. The US government, Barack's administration, spent a lot of money -- a lot of US taxpayers' money -- ensuring that vote didn't take place.
{** Corrected year, originally and wrongly stated 2016.]
Some argued -- including here at this site -- that undermining the Constitutional effort was undermining democracy in Iraq but, by that time, Barack Obama had made it clear he didn't care if Iraq had a democracy.
Yes, Ben, the 2010 elections.
The ones Nouri lost. Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya came in first place. That meant he should have been given first crack at being prime minister-designate and forming a new government. But Nouri al-Maliki refused to step down. And that paralyzed Barack and you. Completely surprised you both. You never could have seen that coming.
A complete surprise . . . despite the fact that the top ranking US general in Iraq, Gen Ray Odierno, warned you of the possibility months before the election, warned you and said a plan needed to be in place for how to respond should that happen.
Caught by surprise because the administration never learned how to listen or how to anticipate any outcome other than their desired response -- yes, that was the key failing throughout Barack's two terms as president.
So elections took place in March 2010. March 7, 2010, Iraq concluded Parliamentary elections. The Guardian's editorial board noted in August 2010, "These elections were hailed prematurely by Mr Obama as a success, but everything that has happened since has surely doused that optimism in a cold shower of reality." Everything that had happened since? The elections were in March. By August, Nouri was still refusing to step down, despite losing. The Iraqi people spoke, the US president just didn't believe their voices mattered. So instead of the US insisting Nouri step down, they backed Nouri during his eight month refusal. All of Iraq came to a standstill because of Nouri's tantrum. And, in the end, US officials negotiated a contract that declared Nouri the prime minister -- The Erbil Agreement. November 10, 2010, The Erbil Agreement is signed. November 11, 2010, the Iraqi Parliament has their first real session in over eight months and finally declares a president, a Speaker of Parliament and Nouri as prime minister-designate -- all the things that were supposed to happen in April of 2010 but didn't.
And not only did Barack's White House negotiate that contract, they lied to everyone to get it pushed through. This is a contract we back 100%. Remember that lie, Ben?
To get the other political blocs to agree to allow Nouri that second term he did not win, the contract included things Nouri would do for them -- implement this part of the Constitution, create a national security post for Allawi, etc.
From the November 11, 2010 snapshot:
Martin Chulov (Guardian) reports one hiccup in the process today involved Ayad Allawi who US President Barack Obama phoned asking/pleading that he accept the deal because "his rejection of post would be a vote of no confidence". Ben Lando, Sam Dagher and Margaret Coker (Wall St. Journal) confirm the phone call via two sources and state Allawi will take the post -- newly created -- of chair of the National Council On Higher Policy: "Mr. Obama, in his phone call to Mr. Allawi on Thursday, promised to throw U.S. weight behind the process and guarantee that the council would retain meaningful and legal power, according to the two officials with knowledge of the phone call."
Promised to throw U.S. weight behind the process and guarantee that the council would retain meaningful and legal power -- hmm.
Well everyone saw what Barack's word meant: Nothing.
Nouri used the contract to get his second term and then refused to honor it. Barack responded?
By refusing to speak to Nouri. He made Joe Biden take all the calls from Nouri and place all the calls to Nouri. He even refused Nouri's call two years later congratulating him on his re-election. That's showing him, Barack!
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