Scarborough: Obama at Rally Would Have Been Admission He Was Wrong About Al Qaeda

“He [Obama] was dead wrong in 2011, he was dead wrong in 2012 when he said al Qaeda was destroyed. He said ISIS was a JV team. He said they were on the run, the last remnants. It sounded — you can go back and look what Donald Rumsfeld said about Iraq’s opposition being at the death rows overlaid on what Barack Obama said. You can even look — we’ve got Eugene Robinson is coming. Eugene wrote a column after Barack Obama said al Qaeda was finished and basically said it was everything but the mission accomplished sign. But we should go ahead and get a mission accomplished sign because we want — and it’s time for us to go back and live our lives.

This is the fantasy that Barack Obama lived in, perhaps for political reasons in 2011 and 2012, because of ideological reasons, because he wanted to show everybody how enlightened he was and what cavemen George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were. And this does not fit in his enlightened point of view. So I think Byron York is definitely on to something here.

If you send somebody to what is now been called France’s 9/11, you are admitting that everything you said about al Qaeda in 2011 and everything you said about al Qaeda in 2012, when you were running for president and making fun of Mitt Romney, was wrong. The French Willie will say this was the worst attack by al Qaeda since September 11th. And I wonder just how bad Barack Obama’s quotes from 2011 and 2012 would look checked opposed over this new story in French newspapers right now. He was dead wrong!”