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Posted at 11:22am on Apr. 1, 2008 Barack Obama: I'm Lying To You For Votes And You're Too Stupid To Know Any Better

Pretend my people NEVER said we should not hope for a democratic Iraq

By haystack

This "100 year war" tug of war foolishness between Obama and McCain has gone far enough. Barack Obama is lying staight-faced to his followers, and he knows it. His Campaign Co-Chair is on record stating categorically that Iraq is "just the first of our Middle East occupations":

Look. We've been in Europe now since '45. We've been in Japan since '45. Been in Korea since '50. So we've had a European occupation force and a Asiatic occupation force for half a century, and we haven't had a Middle East occupation force, so this is a start of that, this is the way great powers operate, it's the way Rome operated. We will be in the Middle East for a long time. This is just the first of our Middle East occupations.

Barack Obama would have you believe that our being in Iraq is a bad thing. He is against war...well, war in Iraq... but has no problem expanding it in Afghanistan. According to a piece in the WSJ today:

Mr. Obama's call to increase the size of U.S. ground forces by 92,000 troops -- 65,000 for the Army and 27,000 for the Marines -- is precisely the figure offered by Secretary of Defense Bob Gates in 2007.

Fine. He wants to send 92,000 US Soldiers to Afghanistan to beat up an already "badly broken" Taliban, and rummage through caves looking for a couple old guys with cell phones and laptops running the war on terror. Whatever.

That he wants NO soldiers in the streets of Iraq to provide the necessary security and support for Iraqi citizens to conduct business, feed and clothe their families, and educate themselves escapes me, but even THIS is beside the point.

Obama's people are saying the same thing McCain is saying about Iraq...AND the greater Middle East. They are correct in suggesting we will continue exerting our lone superpower status, and they are even factually fair in pointing out that we don't always exert that status appropriately. We make mistakes sometimes too, after all. We've made our share in Iraq, to be sure, but leaving the place isn't how you correct them..is it Mr. "I want to be President without ever having to face reality?"

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Posted at 12:34pm on Mar. 26, 2008 Visions Of Phased Withdrawal Dancing In Democrat Heads

By haystack

It comes in many forms. There's "phased withdrawal" or "responsible troop redeployment" (a Pelosi fave) or "phased redeployment" or "refocus America's efforts on the wider struggle yet to be won."

Each has a nice ring, to whichever ear seeks to hear such pretty words wrapped around the ambition to look for surrender wherever and whenever an extra vote or campaign dollar can be mustered. None say, specifically, what the intention is, nor do they describe what the net result will be once the Tuck Tail and Run Doctrine™ has been enacted.

In fairness, I have to admit to laughing out loud when I read this Scrappleface blog entry:

Sources close to al Qaeda and CNN now say that the terror organization has begun high-level internal discussions designed to redefine “victory” in Iraq as “phased redeployment.”

“Stay the course is not a strategy,” said an unnamed al Qaeda official based in Iran. “Victory is not a strategy. We’re losing the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, not to mention other assorted body parts.”

The change in tone among al Qaeda leaders comes in the wake of recent secret elections which saw moderates and progressives sweep to power and take leadership of key committees.

Clearly a play on words, that post intends to show how silly the Democrats are making themselves sound...solely of the the belief it will win them control of the country. But...an oft-used professional trainer expression is "learning moment" and just such an opportunity has befallen Democrats with news of Sadr's Militias rising up against Iraq and US forces:

Phased withdrawal from Iraq before it is time is proving to be a BAD idea.

Our pre-surge strategy struggled (and in many areas failed) because we didn't hold positions we had regained control of. England's departure from Basra, as some Brit lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to warn against, and a couple months of re-arming and regrouping by Sadr and his lunatics has shown the folly of leaving before the country is able to secure itself. Even the Brits themselves are having second thoughts about the wisdom of capitulating to the thronging masses of protestors on the streets of England..what say you, Democrats?

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