In 2009 and 2010, President Obama famously (or was it “infamously”) said that under his new healthcare plan, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Obviously, it wasn’t true. It is pretty clear that President Obama either knew or should have known this statement wasn’t true when he said it, which is pretty much the definition of lying. The President, however, wouldn’t admit it. Here, for example, is one of his attempts to explain what he really meant when he said it.
Which brings up the question of President Obama’s pledge that there would be “no boots on the ground” in Iraq. Now that we have troops undertaking combat missions in Iraq – and people dying, what about this pledge? Was it a lie, too, like “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”? I don’t think so, though I am not sure if it helps all that much.
I think President Obama really didn’t want to send combat troops back to Iraq and he was not planning on doing it. What happened, however, was that the situation in Iraq kept getting worse and worse. Eventually, he had to send combat troops.
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