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Thadius -> RE: Iraq government sides with Obama (7/21/2008 4:42:20 PM)
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Keep up the faith... they won't be coming home. Obama has already laid out the basics for redeploying them to Afghanistan.
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From Obama's Op-Ed before he went on his concert tour.
Ending the war is essential to meeting our broader strategic goals, starting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and Al Qaeda has a safe haven. Iraq is not the central front in the war on terrorism... and would redeploy our troops out of Iraq and focus on the broader security challenges that we face.
As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there. I would not hold our military, our resources and our foreign policy hostage to a misguided desire to maintain permanent bases in Iraq.
Oh and how could anybody miss the tap dancing he did today... When asked if after seeing the successes would he still oppose the surge...
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5417331&page=1
"These kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult," he said. "Hindsight is 20/20. But I think that what I am absolutely convinced of is at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with, and one that I continue to disagree with is to look narrowly at Iraq and not focus on these broader issues."
So basicly he is saying, that who cares whether it worked or not, it was more important to oppose the Bush administration, oh and we shouldn't look at the success on the ground there. Because it is clear to anybody with half a brain that Afghanistan is much more important strategically than Iraq. Who cares if there is a functioning young democracy in the region?
Just my thoughts,
Thadius
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