Idiot Of The Day – Newt’s Oops! Obama Didn’t Say That!

Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich is a politician who has always had a bit of a “foot in mouth” problem. That made him a perfect eventual candidate for my Idiot of the Day Award. It was only a matter of time.

True to form, Mr. Gingrich came through just this morning as he rushed to Twitter to try and be the first GOP’er to attack President Obama over his decision to launch airstrikes in Syria with the assistance of 5 Arab allies (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan and Bahrain) in an effort to begin to “destroy and degrade” ISIS.

Never mind that he along with Republicans like Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham and the entire talking loudmouths of Fox News have been clamoring for war with Syria, or anyone for that matter, it’s dogma for them that whatever President Obama does they must find a way to criticize him even if it shows they are total hypocrites.

In a rush to Twitter to criticize President Obama…..

Compounding his error….

Newt got it terribly wrong….no apology offered….just an excuse!

On June 14th of this year Gingrich said this "We have no choice at this point: The United States must quickly begin airstrikes," the former Republican House speaker said on Friday on "Crossfire" on CNN. "The alternative is to accept that Iran will come marching in, and Iran will end up dominating both Iraq and Syria.  So, Gingrich finally gets his wish and the first thing he does is rush to Twitter to make a totally incorrect attack on the President. Hypocritical? Yes, but typical for this bunch!

Most seriously, and unlike Speaker Gingrich, US Lt Gen William Mayville says some of its overnight air strikes in Syria disrupted an imminent attack on the West by al-Qaeda veterans from the so-called Khorasan group. The raids in Aleppo province came hours after the US, backed by Arab allies, launched the first air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. The Aleppo raids were carried out by the US alone, the US military said. The Khorasan group was in "the final stages of plans to execute major attacks".

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