Barack Obama Watch: In Iraq This Weekend?
The LEFT is going wild with this story that John McCain “leaked” the fact that Obama would in Iraq this weekend.
Hell, everyone knows he is leaving for a foreign trip (taking the three major TV anchors with him) and that Obama promised to visit Iraq. Why wouldn’t one expect Obama to jaunt over to Iraq when he will be nearby in Israel and Jordan?
The RIGHT story is that Obama has ONLY been to Iraq one time and that was 922 days ago.
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11 Comments
Anonymous
when john mccaine was in iraq last he stated the surge was working, while surrounded by hundreds of US military and paid mercenaries with blackhawk helicopters fly overhead ready to blow up the slightest threat while wearing a flak jacket. i found it very unconvincing. maybe if he walked ten blocks without sercurity i would believe him. now barack obama is to see for himself, luckily cause i wouldn’t believe a word from the current US administration which has continually lied about the war on terror.
iraq has become a country of barriers designed to keep sunni and shia neighbourhoods apart. if these barriers were to come down iraq would erupt in violence.
sassinfras
when john mccaine was in iraq last he stated the surge was working, while surrounded by hundreds of US military and paid mercenaries with blackhawk helicopters fly overhead ready to blow up the slightest threat while wearing a flak jacket. i found it very unconvincing. maybe if he walked ten blocks without sercurity i would believe him. now barack obama is to see for himself, luckily cause i wouldn’t believe a word from the current US administration which has continually lied about the war on terror.
iraq has become a country of barriers designed to keep sunni and shia neighbourhoods apart. if these barriers were to come down iraq would erupt in violence.
now in a US election year the spin is spewing forth about the sercurity in iraq .
Flap
Security is better in Iraq and Barack Obama is returning to Iraq for the first time in over 900 days.
Wow.
Guess Obama waited until conditions made it safer, no?
sassinfras
still lets see mccain walk ten block by himself. security in iraq is a joke. iraq has become a island of ‘green zones’ in a sea of ‘red zones’.
i hear in the media that the surge is working. what from total utter failure to just a failure now. how low have the standards become.
i have never been to iraq but know that it has become very unsafe. you don’t have to be there to know that. for a US leader its about as safe now for him/her as it was a year or two ago, when your surrounded by troops .
Flap
I think you better do some reading, my friend.
The situation in Iraq has changed dramatically for the better – by all press reports.
sassinfras
the iraqis are not killing one another as much, but the resistance is still active wanting a end to occupation. it is still a dangerous place. one of the main reason the sercurity has improved is a change in policy. iraqis are now employed to help rebuild the country instead of foriegn workers. paul bremer was a disaster. it was bremer policies and his’ free fraud zone’ which upset the locals and thus caused a good part of the violence. remember the voilence only got out of hand after 10 month after overthrowing saddam, when foriegn workers began to be targeted and eventually forced to leave.
now the policies have changed and bremer is no more things are improving, not solely because of the surge..
Flap
Again, you are incorrect. Sec Def Donald Rumsefeld and his crew were responsible for the disaster after the first military victory of Saddam.
The surge has been successful and now most American combat troops will leave Iraq.
sassinfras
really it doesn’t matter if it was bremer or rumfield. it was both . it was bremer as the top official in iraq at the time who was signing new laws designed to fully privatize the iraqi economy[ recieving his orders from the dept. of defence] ,which caused the blowback. basically the iraqis rejected the radical free market policies of the BUSH adminisatration.- i think they call it ‘ideological blowback’. once these policies had changed, so did the violence for the better.but as i said it was not solely cause of the surge.
Flap
Now, I am having difficulty following your logic.
So, it wasn’t the Surge or the changed Bush Administration policies that ended the Iraq War?
Here is some info on Bremer:
More famously known for his stint in post-invasion Iraq, Paul Bremer was appointed by President George W. Bush to oversee as administrator, the reconstruction of Iraq. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and exercised authority over Iraq’s civil administration. He served in this capacity from May 11, 2003 until limited Iraqi sovereignty was restored on June 28, 2004. Bremer was assigned much of the blame for the insurgency in Iraq that resulted from his reportedly unilateral decision to formally dissolve the Iraqi Army in May of 2003.[1]
But, it was the changed Bush policy, including the surge that ended much of the insurgency, no? Of course including more Iraq control over their own country.
Right?
sassinfras
absolutely right. but it wasn’t just the surge. the surge by itself without the change of policy would have accomplished zero.but it is always reported as if it was the surge that only bettered the sercurity.
now the USA should totally withdraw from iraq asap. the occupation is the main reason the insurency is strong.and i do not think the radical muslim element will take over government either. hopefully barack obama will relies this during his visit.
Flap
The USA will not immediately withdraw from Iraq. None of the military commanders, including the Iraqi ones want that. Iraq must be secure against an outside invasion – meaning Iran.
But, the majority of troops will be home soon – since Bush’s policies won the war.