Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Friday, July 18, 2008 9:45:13 PM
If Barack Obama's revisionism of his own Iraq policy is not an example of the fact he is nothing more than another modern liberal politician, then nothing is. The issue of Iraq and the broader War Against Islamic Fascists is one area where John McCain will best Obama in every confrontation and contest. If you are like me and stumbling in the dark searching for valid arguments from McCain, the issues of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the broader War shine like a beacon. Not because McCain is so great, but because Obama is so terribly incompetent. McCain's statements shown below are common sense unless you live in a cave like so many of the terrorists we are fighting:
"Sen. Obama is going to arrive in Baghdad in a much, much safer and secure environment than the one that he would've encountered before we started the surge," McCain said, referring to a boost in U.S. troop numbers in Iraq that began last year.
McCain, who has made national security and foreign policy the centerpiece of his campaign for the November 4 election, has pressed Obama to visit Iraq.
Robert Gibbs, a top aide to Obama, had no comment on McCain's remark.
The Obama campaign has announced he would soon visit Jordan, Israel, London, Paris and Berlin but has made public only the barest of details.
McCain, a strong backer of the U.S. troop build-up that President George W. Bush launched in early 2007, said that while in Iraq Obama should thank the top U.S. military officer, Gen. David Petraeus, for the current strategy and "thank him for his leadership."
He said Obama should express his regrets to Petraeus for failing to support a non-binding Senate resolution last year condemning an advertisement in The New York Times by a liberal group that mocked Petraeus as "Gen. Betray-us."
"So he'll land in a very different Baghdad. And we have succeeded in Iraq, and we will win if we continue with this strategy that we are pursuing," McCain said.
This undeniable fact, the great success of the Surge which has brought us literally to the final steps of victory in Iraq, is a fact which even Barack Obama himself is no longer able to dismiss. It is for this reason you see a shift in Obama's Iraq policy. Obama understands that he cannot be the President who lost us the war in Iraq, regardless of how much blame he manages to foist on George Bush. So the rhetoric changes from complete withdrawal no matter what, to a slow and sensible transfer of soldiers to Afghanistan and elsewhere over a period of about two years with adjustments based upon changing information he receives from Commanders on the ground.
The wheels on the bus go 'round and round! Now the seditious extreme radical left-wing anti-war loons are thrown under the bus and squished along with his grandmother, Jeremiah Wright, his church of twenty years, Hamas, the Clintons, and anyone else who refuses to shift with the day's news. If you are not Michelle Obama, you better watch your back because Barack will hit-and-run you over before you can say, "God da*n America!"
What we learn from this is that it's not about Obama changing how he feels about Iraq and our mission, but that the facts and news reports became so overwhelming as to demand a correction in the campaign. Either that, or risk losing the election to an opponent who's about as exciting as a stump. Barack Obama is running the "Say Anything Campaign of 2008" where only one thing matters; the White House.