Obama’s Iraq Quagmire/Some more lies
Obama’s Iraq Quagmire
July 03, 2008 4:40 PM
FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note.
There’s been lots of speculation this week about whether Sen. Barack Obama has an Iraq problem. He does now.
His comments Thursday, saying that he will “continue to refine” his plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq inside of 16 months, seems likely to leave the campaign on the defensive on this issue for days or weeks.
And it increases the likelihood that his trip to Iraq later this month will not turn out like Obama wants it to.
There will be only one relevant question now out of Obama’s trip now: Do you stand by your plan? Obama is unlikely to give a direct, yes-or-no answer -- and that’s where Sen. John McCain and his allies can and will pounce.
Obama has almost always built in some wiggle room into his proposal -- including promises to consult with commanders on the ground -- but surely not always. For point of reference, go to Obama’s own campaign Website:
“Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.”
That’s pretty unequivocal.
Obama’s migration to the political center has been well-documented, and is already a frame McCain is building around his candidacy. But Iraq -- this is qualitatively different, an issue that lives on a higher plane, since opposing the war was the rationale for his candidacy in the first place.
Comment: So how many times has he been to Iraq?
He has no clue as to what he is talking about or doing.
At least McCain has been there and knows what is going on and how far the Iraqi government has come. What's even funnier is that the surge did work!
July 03, 2008 4:40 PM
FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note.
There’s been lots of speculation this week about whether Sen. Barack Obama has an Iraq problem. He does now.
His comments Thursday, saying that he will “continue to refine” his plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq inside of 16 months, seems likely to leave the campaign on the defensive on this issue for days or weeks.
And it increases the likelihood that his trip to Iraq later this month will not turn out like Obama wants it to.
There will be only one relevant question now out of Obama’s trip now: Do you stand by your plan? Obama is unlikely to give a direct, yes-or-no answer -- and that’s where Sen. John McCain and his allies can and will pounce.
Obama has almost always built in some wiggle room into his proposal -- including promises to consult with commanders on the ground -- but surely not always. For point of reference, go to Obama’s own campaign Website:
“Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.”
That’s pretty unequivocal.
Obama’s migration to the political center has been well-documented, and is already a frame McCain is building around his candidacy. But Iraq -- this is qualitatively different, an issue that lives on a higher plane, since opposing the war was the rationale for his candidacy in the first place.
Comment: So how many times has he been to Iraq?
He has no clue as to what he is talking about or doing.
At least McCain has been there and knows what is going on and how far the Iraqi government has come. What's even funnier is that the surge did work!
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Just another lie -
I remember how Obama said that he would start binging troops home from Iraq right away. They will probably remove that information off of his web site
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He is just looking like a fool more and more each day now, I think before he started to judge about Iraq he should’ve went a few times during the year before passing judgement.
But there again you can’t expect any less out of him, considering he didn’t look at the Rev. Wright videos before making that Philadelphia speech, which proves he hasn’t got good judgement and character.
I guess he is just going to be another flipper….LOL!
