Iraq War ends on Bush’s schedule, not Obama’s
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | December 15th at 03:31 PM |
President Obama and the biased media wing of the Democrat Party are heralding the “official” end of the Iraq War. They are neglecting to note that in order to get the Democrats’ nomination, presidential candidate Obama promised to remove all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months: Whatever nuance Barack Obama is now adding to his Iraq withdrawal strategy, the core plan on his Web | Read More »
Obama plays golf instead of deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | October 25th at 11:29 PM |
Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan. For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly calls a “war of necessity.” General Stanley A. McChrystal’s report, in which he requests more troops, was issued at the end of August. The Commander in Chief, | Read More »
‘Mission accomplished’ redux – Obama declares ‘our combat mission in Iraq will end’
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | February 28th at 08:32 AM |
Today, President Obama visited Camp Lejeune, N.C., to declare his scheduled end to the war in Iraq on August 31, 2010: Even though 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq, Obama claims “mission accomplished.” I know, I know; Obama didn’t actually say “mission accomplished.” But then neither did President Bush, when he declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in front of that banner requested | Read More »
Obama Still Doesn’t Support The Surge
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | July 22nd at 07:31 AM |
Now that Obama has finally made his so-called fact-finding trip to Iraq, we find that it was too audacious to expect the antiwar champion of the liberal/progressive left to keep an open mind. Obama’s closed-minded opposition to the surge and support for a firm an arbitrary time table for the withdrawal of troops hasn’t changed. When asked if knowing what he knows now, he would | Read More »
So What is Obama’s Position On Iraq?
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | July 18th at 07:05 AM |
The Short answer is “Whatever the Politics Demand.” Watch the following video documentary released by the McCain’s presidential campaign entitled “The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand.” The documentary examines Obama’s multitude of inconsistent statements on Iraq and presents a timeline of Obama’s political positioning on Iraq, including Obama’s incorrect judgment that the surge would fail. Obama sounds as consistent as John Kerry.