Incompetent. ---James Taranto, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and editor of OpinionJournal, said Mr. Obama apparently is no longer claiming credit for the removal of American forces, something that, until now, he frequently boasted about. “Obama is not only disclaiming responsibility for the troop pullout but blaming it on George W. Bush,” he wrote Monday. Indeed, Mr. Obama’s most recent description of the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal differs greatly from how he portrayed it in 2012, when he was running for re-election against Republican Mitt Romney. While it’s true the administration did support keeping a small residual force in Iraq, Mr. Obama frequently took credit for fully ending American involvement in Iraq and for leaving no U.S. boots on the ground in that country.--- Read more: washingtontimes/news/2014/aug/11/obama-adjusts-iraq-narrative-now-blames-george-w-b/#ixzz3AEPfaRaP
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