Obama's Plan for Iraq

Senator Barack Obama today touched again on his plan to withdraw American forces from Iraq if elected President during a round of questioning by CNN reporter. The Page has a nice excerpt from Obama's presser at a Pennsylvania Gas Station viewable here. The Senator becomes highly defensive after the reporter obvously doesn't buy into his dreamy plan to leave a few military personel in Iraq to watch over our "diplomatic forces" while we "redeploy" (run and hide). Taking a very clumsy tack, Obama then resorts to mis-quoting John McCain by stating that McCain would have us fighting in Iraq for 100 years!

What McCain actually said in remarks made before a Derry, New Hampshire town hall meeting that, is that he would be fine, "with Americans being in Iraq for 100 years. We've been in Japan for 60 years and South Korea for 50 Years or so; as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."

You can watch the video here:



In contrast to McCain's "stay as long as it takes to get the job done" position on Iraq in order to build a valuable ally in the region, Obama in this video taken while introducing Patrick Murphy to his advisory team goes into detail about how he would "redeploy" (abandon) Iraq to chase phantom enemies (we don't know who) in "that part of the world". Obama props himself between two veterans who happen to agree with him as he declares his intention to abandon that Iraq in its time of need and dependance upon the United States while it fights to stabilize itself from terrorists. What a hero!



Unfortunately for the Senator and the Democratic Party, Iraq has shown itself to be very resilient in defeating it's enemies with the support of the U.S. and the success of the troop surge architected by General David H. Petraeus.

Since the Democrats have been banking on the defeat and retreat of U.S. forces in Iraq for their own craven political purposes they have been quite inconvenienced and disappointed to say the least in their drive to blunt the success of the war in Iraq and to undermine funding for our forces during a time of war.

One wonders how they sleep at night worrying how their efforts to cast Iraq as a losing proposition, civil war, unwinnable, lost cause and all the other Soros inspired superlatives have collapsed all around them.