Page 2 - War Candidate News Today

Unintended consequences which is why we should generally aim before we shoot. we have a country coalition. we will slowly push back isil out of iraq. im confident that will happen. >> bill recently spoke with david who advised president obama on foreign policy. >> do you have any idea why president obama went against his generals and national security people all of whom on the record said we told him not to withdraw u.s. troops? >> i think it is pretty obvious because he came to office as the an...

The united states senate. voted consistently for full funding for occupation in iraq. when he later ran as being an anti-iraq war candidate. he promised before he received the democratic nomination that he would join the filibuster, immunity from the telecom companies under the bush administration. as soon as he received the nomination, he not only didnt join the filibuster, he voted for that immunity. who else in the country gets congress to grant them retroactive immunity for felonious contrac...

Look, the white house knew they would have to take the step because of that. as you said, not secure prize we were coming to this point for some time in terms of pulling off the band aid, the timing is interesting. the white house saw a window after the death of gaddafi, where they could capitalize on this and make it part of broader argument about the foreign policy successes to package it this way. this is a man who burst in politics as the anti-iraq war candidate. that is the reason he came t...

Legitimate end the war candidate, i dont want to say an anti-war candidate in the 2012 presidential primaries? >> youre zeroing in on a very important question. its one of the things i stay awake late at night worrying about. before we even get to 2012, if you look at some of the republicans that are going to be coming in 2010 -- >> theyre not very supportive of the war. >> one, many characterize afghanistan as obamas war. two, theyre worried about out of control spending and afghanistan seems t...

No. pennsylvania governor ed rendell, former democratic party chairman, says he thinks the president could face a democratic challenger in 2012 on this issue if he cant get enough of the troops out in time. >> if the troop withdrawal begins in 2011, if theres some signs that were trying to get out of there -- and i heard, i think you, talking about, if there are only 3,000 american troops, we still have a presence. but if we start to begin to reduce our presence, i think thats probably enough to...

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.

Citizen of both countries. if she wanted to become an american she was also going to have to make a decision about being a canadian in order to become an american. she would have to give up her canadian citizenship. and she really didnt want to do that. right? no beef with canada. giving up your citizenship of birth, that is a hard thing to do for anyone, no matter where youre from. but my mom made the decision to do it. she decided to become a u.s. citizen. it was a hard call but she did it. th...

Being a canadian in order to become an american. she would have to give up her canadian citizenship. and she really didnt want to do that. right? no beef with canada. giving up your citizenship of birth, that is a hard thing to do for anyone, no matter where youre from. but my mom made the decision to do it. she decided to become a u.s. citizen. it was a hard call but she did it. there was one thing she really wanted to be able to do which she could not do without becoming an american citizen. a...

She would have to give up her canadian citizenship. and she really didnt want to do that. right? no beef with canada. giving up your citizenship of birth, that is a hard thing to do for anyone, no matter where youre from. but my mom made the decision to do it. she decided to become a u.s. citizen. it was a hard call but she did it. there was one thing she really wanted to be able to do which she could not do without becoming an american citizen. and that is she wanted to vote. she wanted to vote...