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Biden Does NOT need a BILL to close the border
He only needs a PEN. Thats all he needed to open it.
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Maybe this is just Proof Trump is better than Biden.

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John Adams
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Top government officials and military brass repeatedly warned of the consequences of sticking to a timetable on full Iraq War troop withdrawal, but President Obama proceeded with the plan in 2011 anyway.

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker cautioned against such a move in the years beforehand.

“I am certain that abandoning or drastically curtailing our efforts will bring failure,” he said in 2007. “An Iraq that falls into chaos or civil war will mean massive human suffering, well beyond what has already occurred within Iraq’s borders.”

He later told PBS that he and Gen. David Petraeus refused to talk about timetables during that time.

“To set an arbitrary timeline is just telling the enemy how long he has to wait,” he said.

Adm. Michael Mullen said the consequences of setting a timeline could be “very dangerous” in a 2008 Fox News Sunday interview, and retired Gen. Jack Keane said in 2011 that the Obama administration was “taking steps towards losing this peace” in Iraq with full withdrawal of troops.

“When we walk away at the end of conflicts, it has a tendency not to work,” Keane said.

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged in a CBS interview this month that he was not confident in the Obama administration’s plan to pull out at the time.

“I thought it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq,” Panetta said.

The consequences: the rise of the terrorist group ISIL and the full destabilization of the country in the years since. In January, these violent extremists overran Ramadi and Fallujah and have seized large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria.

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The Left ALWAYS think they know better. Then when it blows up in their face they start blaming Bush or McVeigh or whoever they can think of off the top of their little brains.   And it doesn't matter to them how many were killed. They'll never (ever) mention THAT number...
 
 
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