The Surge Is Working!
Posted on September 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm by Steve


Can somebody PLEASE tell me why the DEMOCRATIC nominee for President is on FOX NEWS spouting REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS???

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama said the surge of American forces in Iraq has “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,” though Iraqis still haven’t done enough to take responsibility for their country.

“The surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in a recorded interview broadcast tonight on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor” program.

Let’s just review: the United States, without provocation or legal right under international law, invaded and destroyed the nation of Iraq, causing the “premature deaths” of hundreds of thousands of people, demolishing all the institutions of their society, and laying waste to many of their major cities. Then, they installed a puppet regime, armed the ethnic factions that emerged in the chaotic fighting, and now… and now the so-called “liberal” candidate is proclaiming that the Iraqi people “still haven’t done enough to take responsibility for their country.”?!

Forgive me if I appear less than enthusiastic at the prospect of an Obama administration.

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Can somebody PLEASE tell me why the DEMOCRATIC nominee for President is on FOX NEWS spouting REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS???

He’s trying to win an election.

Comment by dr.hoo — September 7, 2008 @ 7:51 am


Right. He’s trying to win an election in a country where 80% of voters think we’re on the wrong track. He’s trying to win an election in a country where two-thirds of adults oppose the Iraq war.

So, explain to me again how this guy will win an election by repeating, verbatim, Republican talking points about the glorious success of the surge?

Wasn’t the entire groundswell of his support predicated on that brave speech he gave back in 2002 opposing war in Iraq?

The most charitable explanation I can think of is that Obama’s advisers — the same craven Democrats who managed to lose the last two national elections, and who have given Dear Leader everything Dick Cheney wished for — his advisers are telling him this is what he needs to say to win.

Based on evidence, common sense, and — naively — basic dignity — it seems to me that praising the continued occupation and domination of Iraq isn’t really “Change We Can Believe In.”

Comment by Steve — September 7, 2008 @ 11:31 am


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