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Obama Beats Hillary Like a Drum on Iraq

Hillary Clinton has had a good week, but now she is starting to make mistakes. Just today she questioned Obama's commitment to pull out of Iraq creating the perfect opening for the Senator from Illinois:

I was opposed to this war in 2002. If it had been up to me we would have never been in this war. It was because of George Bush with an assist from Hillary Clinton and John McCain that we entered into this war. A war that should have never been authorized, a war that should have never been waged.

I have been against it in 2002, 2003, 2004, 5, 6, 7, 8 and I will bring this war to an end in 2009.

So don't be confused. Don't be confused. When Senator Clinton is not even willing to acknowledge that she voted for war. She says she voted for diplomacy despite the title that said authorization to use U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq. So I don't want to play politics on this issue because she doesn't have standing to question my position on this issue.

If Hillary wants to focus the campaign on Iraq that is exactly where Obama wants her. This is one part of the "kitchen sink" that she should not be trying to throw.

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So you are praising what? T... (Below threshold)

So you are praising what? Two appeasers who can't wait to lose the war against the Islamofascists? We are in Iraq and the dirty secret is that even these two socialist pacifists cannot withdraw troops all at once and in fact lose the war. If they do, the winner of the mess, will have a four year term and that is all. Americans do not like losers even the wussy public that we have today. Liberals who want to talk to death the Islamic terrorists remind me of the Brits in the '30's. Only Churchill saw the real danger of evil. Liberals never do and it always takes some real Commander in Chief like a Reagan to say, We win and they lose. With all his flaws, McCain will say and do that. The other two bums across the aisle will not. To support either of these frauds is almost un-American. The poster of this article reminds me lately of a young college sophomore with as much political sense as one of that ilk. Enough of the Obama Messiah baloney and the Clinton inevitability.

Well, we know Obama equivoc... (Below threshold)

Well, we know Obama equivocated on the war during the 2004 campaign so as not to contradict the party nominee. And then he voted for war funding pretty much EXACTLY as Hillary did since taking his seat in the Senate.

We know his just-fired foreign policy adviser Samantha Powers told Euro-journalists that Obama's 16-month withdrawal plan was a "best case scenario" subject to adjustment when he had access to all the information a President gets - which is within a split hair of Hillary's position. Neither has pledged even to withdraw troops by the END of their first term, if elected.

So, when exactly has his position on the war been different from hers, AFTER his ballyhooed 2002 speech against it as an Illinois State Senator?

Obama is beating Hillary like a drum amongst those who make their decision on who to support based on cool rap videos, to be sure . . .

Well said, Jim. What this l... (Below threshold)
Lee Ward[TypeKey Profile Page]:

Well said, Jim. What this latest ObamaF*ckup shows is two-fold -- his campaign is in a full-blown panic and clearly unable to function on this playing field - which is the same level of slug-it-out discourse that will be required to beat the Republicans. Obambi isn't ready to compete on this level, and that's why he tried to stay out the of the fight for the entire campaign. Clinton has now exposed a major Obama weakness - he's not well equipped to slug it out with the big kids -- all of his campaigns prior to this have been cakewalks. This general election will not be a cakewalk.

And two - we now know what Obambi has been telling the American people isn't the truth. No wonder he's relied on plagiarized speeches up to now, and avoided hard, frank talk on the issues -- he's been lying to gather votes -- pandering to voters on Iraq when he knows damn well (as we can see in Power's interview with the BBC) that Clinton is right.

I remember Kerry and just a... (Below threshold)
Steve Crickmore:

I remember Kerry and just about everyone else in the Dems (except conspicuously Senator Clinton ) saying 'there were no good options in Iraq in the 2004 campaign' because of the 'cluster...' of the execution of the war. Obama and a few others were staying that the initial decision in addition to the poor execution were the reasons that the US miitary was in an impossible situation. Obama:"How do you stabilize a country that is made up of three different religious and in some cases ethnic groups, with minimal loss of life and minimum burden to the taxpayers?"

And Hillary where was she?...She was ignoring all evidence to the contrary, and reiterating that the war was going spendidly in 2003, 2004 and even in February 2005, months after Kerry was defeated.

As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Clinton (in Iraq along side her pal John McCain) said that much of Iraq was "functioning quite well" and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign that the insurgency was failing.

For clarification that was Hillary Clinton, not George Bush or John McCain, or Dick Cheney urging we keep going forward over the cliff in 2005.

This is the sign of the desperation of the Clinton camp that she is now presenting herself as the new glowering war (not peace) president to continue the occupation and half the Democrat faithful entranced by the Clinton name are goose stepping into line. 'War is peace, Peace is war'. It as all the same to Hillary as long as I am the commander-in-chief.




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