“Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there,” the Associated Press reported in 2007. To be fair, President Obama stressed in his address Thursday night that there would be no boots on the ground in Iraq, only Americans flying bombers over Iraq. That doesn’t mean some weren’t touchy about Crowley’s tweet; especially Media Matters’ Oliver Willis.
hey geniuses, air strikes in iraq are not a ground invasion and occupation of iraq. @CrowleyTIME @daveweigel
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/CrowleyTIME/status/497559383610781696
@CrowleyTIME @daveweigel your tweet attempting to gotcha obama
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/CrowleyTIME/status/497559709130686465
@CrowleyTIME @daveweigel its not even that. it was a cheap attempt to say he's reneged on what he said before.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/CrowleyTIME/status/497559966170251264
@CrowleyTIME @daveweigel yeah you just thought everyone would retweet the gotcha without thinking about it
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/CrowleyTIME/status/497563053647740928
@CrowleyTIME @daveweigel maybe? guess its better than making weak parallels
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 8, 2014
In short:
It's okay bc it's not Bush MT “@owillis: hey geniuses, air strikes in iraq are not a ground invasion and occupation of iraq. @CrowleyTIME
— IamBetaPsi (@betapsi1266) August 8, 2014
Editor’s note: A typo in the first paragraph has been corrected.
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