Posted on 07/26/2008 8:32:19 PM PDT by rockinqsranch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday the size of a residual U.S. force left in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat troops would be "entirely conditions-based."
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Is this not a flipflop?
Way to climb out there on that Redwood branch, BO.
After floating 15 positions on Iraq, he is finally making sense.
Even the blind pig finds the acorn on occasion.
Ya don’t say? Now that’s deep, man, deep.
Yep. Todat it’s this, tomorrow we will need to see which way the wind’s blowing. He’ll have changed his mind by tomorrow.
Hasn’t Bush been saying this for years?
“Is this not a flipflop?”
It was one of the “Keywords” I could think of at the time I posted this.
Why, this cannot be....I mean, this upstanding, knowledgeable, experienced, military-oriented candidate for Commander-in-Chief said “WE WILL REMOVE OUR TROOPS BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY UPON MY ELECTION AS PRESIDENT” ....
There must be some mistake here....lying, leftist, liberal, socialists do not make false statements just to get elected....must just be bad reporting...
if he’s elected,
his nuts are going to be in a vice:
either leave the troops in iraq,
or
withdraw them as the left demands.
then, history will blame the defeat on obama.
I bet he got a talking to by Sarkozy, Merkl and Brown...
I imagine something like: “Are you crazy about pulling out in Iraq?? You don’t really believe all the crap we say about taking out the troops - that’s just for internal consumption!”
What kind of troops will he leave behind after he withdraws the combat troops? Signal Corps, Military Police, Medics, Chaplains, or Nurses?
"Uh...uh...uh...ah...well...er....ah....eh...uh....it's...uh...not a...flip....uh...if...well...it's...ah....uh......uh....nuanced....if...uh... well...if...ah...you take....every...uh...ah...position...uh....ah...on an....ah...uh....eh....on an....uh...issue....."
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Residual Force? So some US forces are to remain in Iraq after 16 months? How long Barack? Maybe a hundred years?
This should really piss off the "Nut Roots".
“...history will blame the defeat on obama.”
Viet Nam wasn’t blamed on Nixon. Viet Nam was primarily blamed on America. Only those of us that are Politically, Militarily alert, and give a damn are aware it was the Democrats.
Obama and the Democrats would skate on this one too I fear. It would be blamed by the MSM and the Dems on Bush, and the “NeoCons”.
The Messiah measured the WH for drapes already. No doubt, he’s ordered Bush to move out now. Lord Hussein Obama thinks he’s been elected by the MSM so he’s moving in next week with his anti-American shrew and Muslim radical relatives.
actually it was lyndon johnson’s mess.
and we did not lose the war on the battlefield,
we lost it on “the most trusted man in america’s”
tv .
walter cronkrite.
It does sound familiar, doesn’t it?
His appeasement base can’t be very happy to hear this, the ones that don’t understand his politicking, that is.
Just my two cents.
Precisely.
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