Posted on 07/25/2007 9:03:30 PM PDT by gpapa
Barack Obama's latest pronouncement on Iraq should have shocked the conscience. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, the freshman Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate opined that even preventing genocide is not a sufficient reason to keep American troops in Iraq.
"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now--where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife--which we haven't done," Mr. Obama told the AP. "We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done. Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea."
Mr. Obama is engaging in sophistry. By his logic, if America lacks the capacity to intervene everywhere there is ethnic killing, it has no obligation to intervene anywhere--and perhaps an obligation to intervene nowhere. His reasoning elevates consistency into the cardinal virtue, making the perfect the enemy of the good.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Great essay.
Democrats are pro genocide.
Remember, it was Obama who repeatedly opposed action in the Illinois legislature to stop the practice of letting babies born alive after botched abortions from being starved to death.
This is shocking. The purely self serving nature of socialist logic shows it’s ugly head once again.
btt
The new borns are treated like a diry rag, thrown away.
Osama Obama’s latest reprehensible statement, plus some links.
Document drop: A new critique of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study
Michelle Malkin | 7/25/07
Posted on 07/25/2007 6:19:12 PM EDT by bnelson44
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871575/posts
New revelations!: The Case Against the Haditha Defendants is Coming Unglued
Defend Our Marines | July 25, 2007 | Nathaniel R. Helms
Posted on 07/25/2007 9:09:15 PM EDT by RedRover
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871654/posts
A Statement From Scott Thomas Beauchamp: (TNR’s diarist comes clean)
The New Republic | 7/26/07 | Scott Thomas Beauchamp
Posted on 07/26/2007 7:26:20 AM EDT by TomB
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871795/posts
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/26/scott-thomas-steps-out-of-the-shadows/
Ace reports that the soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp is... TNR staffer Elspeth Reeve. According to the TNR masthead, she’s a reporter-researcher for the magazine. Or was? According to Discarded Lies, a TNR staffer was fired this morning. That staffer was the source of the leaks... Update again... I just called TNR’s office and left a message for Reeve. She still works there. Will see if she calls back.
Maybe we'll get a two-fer out of this. One dishonorably discharged mutt and one sh**-canned reporterette.
That'd be sweet.
Dollars to donuts she wrote the entire piece and he just said "Yea, that sounds good, honey."
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Barack Obama and John Kerry: “It didn’t happen, we were somewhere else when it happened, and besides, we were only following orders!”
Also, Foer may be toast, and that won’t be bad at all. A class action suit on behalf of all US soldiers etc might put NR out of business as well.
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