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The three things that strike terror into the hearts of all freedom-loving people are Osama, Obama and Chelsea's momma, so the joke goes.

Listening to Barack Obama dismiss the probability of a slaughter – even genocide – following a U.S. troop withdrawal, reminds us just why there is so much truth in the joke.

Obama said the U.S. cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems around the world and preventing even a genocide in Iraq would not be a good enough reason to keep troops there.

"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now – where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife – which we haven't done."

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