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Barack Obama on the Iraq War – “Whatever The Politics Demand”

July 17, 2008 /
+++++Update+++++

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air has the poop on the afternoon Team McCain blogger conference call (to which Flap was invited) featuring Representative Marsha Blackburn, R- TN and Michael Goldfarb, the offical blogger at the The McCain Report.

Flap’s question:

Flapsblog – Will the latest ad (see below)be going on broadcast television? Not in its current form It’s a web ad. Will they run contrast ads during Obama’s trip? Yes; Obama set the precedent for that during the Colombia trip.

John McCain’s web video – The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand

In a townhall meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, this afternoon, John McCain ripped Barack Obama’s Iraq War policy, including his sixteen month artificial timetable to withdraw American troops.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday ridiculed Democrat Barack Obama’s vow to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 16 months as a political tactic aimed at getting votes.

Obama in a speech this week stuck by his pledge to withdraw U.S. combat forces from Iraq in 16 months, a policy McCain said would sacrifice the security gains that have recently brought a measure of stability to parts of the country.

“This success that we have achieved is still fragile and could be reversed,” McCain said on his campaign bus. “And if we do what Sen. Obama wants to do, then all of that could be reversed,” and leave behind chaos and Iranian influence, he said.

In a town hall meeting in Kansas City, McCain said troop withdrawals must be governed by the situation on the ground, “not some artificial, politically inspired” timetable.

The problem with Obama is that he was elected by the radical left anti-Iraq War faction of the Democrat Party, the MoveOn.org folks and he cannot move off his position of an immediate withdrawal timetable.

The “SURGE” has been effective and the United States has quelled violence in Iraq to the point commanders are considering a draw down of troops.

But, Obama was against the “SURGE.” He favored capitulation and immediate withdrawal – just last year.

Can you say Barack Obama was against the Iraq War before He was for it? Or can you say Obama’s Iraq War policy is “WHATEVER THE POLITICS DEMAND?”

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5 Comments

  • sassinfras

    July 19, 2008 at 6:30 am

    iraq is a country of barriers. neigbourhoods in the major towns are cut off from one another. sunnis and shias are seperated and check points are everywhere. this is why violence is down.iraq is still a violent place and if the barriers came down violence would erupt eveywhere. the surge hasn’t made iraq safe. would you walk ten blocks with a micky mouse shirt on. the war in iraq has been a total failure and is unwinnable for the west.
    when john mccain was in iraq last he stated that the surge was working while wearing a flak jacket surrounded by US military and blackhawk helicopters hovering.it was not convincing.

  • Flap

    July 19, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    What have you been reading, sir?

    The Iraq War was essentially won by the USA in December of last year and the mop up operations are what are left. AQ defeated along with Al Sadr and the sectarian violence.

    American troops will be coming home after “the Surge” was successful.

  • Greg

    October 1, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    Whatever you have there on your video, its all useless. Why don’t we just move on and just help Obama on what he wants to do to improve the US?