.America's Representatives in Iraq, Will It Make Americans Not Stupid?
"Iraq has seen a resurgence in media coverage as Sen. Obama has dropped into Baghdad for situational awareness. I actually think dog and pony shows like this are a beneficial matter for diplomacy, since it highlights America's commitment to our allies, shows the Iraqis that our leadership hasn't forgotten about them, and helps establish long-term relationships (our beloved founding fathers were big on this). But Obama totally bricks on a Nightline interview, according to AllahPundit, and it shows that his visit was just some lame campaign stop:
Q: If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?Can this election get any more stupid? HuffPo had a total stroke-piece about Obama saying he embodies everything great about America and the rest of the world would be jizzing in their pants at the thought of Obama coming to their humble nations. But if Obama is the cumulative sum of the American people, I'd have to be a little concerned."
A: No, because, keep in mind that…
Q: You wouldn’t?
A: Keep in mind… These kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. But I think that, what I’m absolutely convinced of, is that 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.
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posted by madtom at 12:54 AM
5 Comments:
The "surge" represents a misrepresentation of facts. Bush and surge supporters are taking credit for something they did not do. The Anbar Awakening had been underway since Sep 2006. Bush announced his "surge" in Jan 2007.
And the 'Anbar Awakening', the stand down of the shia militias, and the rout or al quida in Iraq just coincidentally occured as the surge hit high gear? some of that Obama reasoning, I guess.
No because we got lied into attacking a country that had nothing to do with 911 and we hung the only mfer who could run the place and we slid billions of dollars into the pocket of the corrupt corporations so they could build showers that kill our troops.
Here is how I am going to get us out. I reject the right-wing's fascist notion that civil order is imposed from above. I am going to hand the Iraqi's a copy of Great Britain's constitution and set up a system of small counties with a Sheriff and a county court Judge. I'm going to hold local elections for each county and once the officers are sworn in, we will bug out.
Oh, and one more thing, that "no fly" zone? It is back. If you Sunis, Shietes or Kurds lift a single warplane off the ground, kiss it good-by.
"Here is how I am going to get us out."
Don't forget to take your scarf with you when you go to Iraq to present your plan.
The awakenings are important, but for sure that more troops on the ground made all the difference, allowing councils to organize. The awakening were always there, but they needed to be organized and the hardcore terrorist needed to be destroyed so that could happen.
Anyway non of it would have been possible without the General, or without pulling Bush kicking and screaming to fire Rummy and change course.
I think I predicted a win less than four months after Petraeus took over. He brought a completely new vision to the war. We were lucky to have him, right when we most needed him.
I was thinking about it, and something else you cant deny. The democrats took congress, and we won the war.
Did the Republican led congress convene even one oversight hearing? I can't remember one. All I remember from that time were reports and evidence of all out fraud, incompetence, and mismanagement, that came packaged in prison porn and torture.
Where was Frisk, and the leadership during all that?
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