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Originally Posted by passingbat
Obama failed to carry out his 'red line' threat.
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They have a disagreement on a single policy; get real for goodness sake! A job awaits both of you at CNN.
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Because Obama went for Congressional approval, and was told he wouldn't get it.
Trump didn't go to Congress.
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Originally Posted by passingbat
Nonsense. Have you never changed your mind when confronted by stark reality?
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So, Trump was wrong when he criticised Obama for wanting to bomb Syria, then, in response to chemical weapons use?
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Originally Posted by Mick
Nice try but Obamacare is not successful, as already pointed out several times.
As for the rest of your post. Obama did not need Congressional approval to begin with, back in 2013, after Assad first used chemical weapons against his own people, he could have gone down the route Trump just has by going down the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973, which so long as the current sitting President notifies congress of his committed military action within 48 hours, the President does not need Congressional Authorization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_S...missile_strike
The bottom line is as history recalls, In 2012, Obama drew a line warning Assad of using chemical weapons, Assad crossed it, with a chemical attack in 2013 and Obama, the US and pretty much the rest of the world did nothing, including ourselves.
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You keep repeating anecdotal evidence from your US friends is not the same thing as showing a number of times that Obamacare was not successful.
I have quite a lot of American friends, and my brother-in-law has lived there for the past 5-6 years, and he and a majority of his friends (and quite a lot of my US friends) think it is a success, because 10 million more people are covered.
They explain the price rises as normal (as I showed earlier for the bush Presidency), and whilst our anecdotal evidence is personal experience, 10 million additional people covered is cold hard fact.