Barack Obama Quotes
The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.
Obama, Barack. "Remarks on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against ISIL." The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, 11 Feb. 2015.
What makes this quotation important is that the Central Intelligence Agency disobeyed the order and implemented a number of covert operations in Indonesia and CIA Director Alan Dulles did not tell the President. See {634612} for his rationale.
He was endorsing American President George W. Bush for re-election. Johnson was a real outlier of a politician. Almost all British politicians (as well as American and other national politicians) will not take sides or endorse a particular candidate in a foreign election. But Johnson did so enthusiastically to the distress of the Prime Minister and the Office of Foreign Affairs. He also was unusual in that he was not distressed that the original reason for the Iraq invasion was a fantasy or that the invasion unleashed a Sunni / Shiite Civil War. However, in {636247} he insulted Bush when he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
