Posted on 08/01/2007 1:26:17 PM PDT by Jean S
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), in a speech in which he also advocated launching attacks against terrorists in Pakistan, on Wednesday levied heavy accusations against President Bush, including the pronouncement that Bush is “fighting the war the terrorists want us to fight” in Iraq.
“By refusing to end the war in Iraq, President Bush is giving the terrorists what they really want, and what the Congress voted to give them in 2002: a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences,” Obama said in an address at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
“[Osama bin Laden] and his allies know they cannot defeat us on the field of battle or in a genuine battle of ideas,” he added. “But they can provoke the reaction we’ve seen in Iraq: a misguided invasion of a Muslim country that sparks new insurgencies, ties down our military, busts our budgets, increases the pool of terrorist recruits, alienates America, gives democracy a bad name and prompts the American people to question our engagement in the world.”
While Obama’s remarks about Pakistan garnered the most attention, he peppered his speech with attacks on Bush.
“This administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand,” said the senator, who trails Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) in the fight for the Democratic nomination. “I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.”
Rather than protecting the homeland, Obama charged, the Bush administration delivered “a color-coded politics of fear.”
Obama repeatedly criticized Congress for authorizing the war. At the time of the vote, Obama’s two main rivals for the nomination were in the Senate and he was serving in the Illinois state legislature.
“With that vote, Congress became co-author of a catastrophic war,” he said.
In the most-discussed part of the speech, Obama said he would make U.S. military aid to Pakistan contingent on the country taking on the terrorists that are seeking a haven in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges,” Obama said, but added, “if we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
Yeah, Obama wants to withdraw all of the troops from Iraq, leaving a vacuum, and invade our nuclear armed ally Pakistan instead.
This guy is such a lightweight it’s amazing he hasn’t blown away in the wind like Mary Poppins.
I’m going to tell BOR about you.
“...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship...” What some long-ago Democrat said about meeting challenges resolutely.
Now — “It costs too much, we’re bored, it’s too hard...”
Wow, after that speach I’m SURE Bush won’t get reelected in 08!
If people don’t see what a fool this guy is...wet, really wet behind those big ears and NOT ready for the national stage.
Get out of Iraq and invade another sovereign country. Sure, that’ll work!/s
This is guy should never have been elected to any office. He is really ignorant.
Obama knows about as much about National Security as Mickey Mouse knows about the Hubble telescope...
Why to people take this puppy seriously ?
We have here an example of a logical disconnect. If the other side stopped blowing up vegetable markets and children and other stuff and stopped kidnapping and shooting their enemies and doing other antisocial things, the US would be out of there so quick that Reid and Pelosi wouldn't know it was over for a month and would still be talking about 'ending the war' a month after it was actually over.
He’s a Tough Boy sung to song by Hall and Oates, She’s a Rich Girl!
This metrosexual girlyman couldn’t broadside anyone. He has no manhood... no class... no experience and NO GRAVITAS! He does have big ears that grow bigger with each lie.
LLS
He just keeps exposing his lack of credentials.
So in the same speech he said Iraq is too complex for us to occupy, but invading Pakistan to control what’s happening in Waziristan and maintain a friendly government in control of their nukes would work out better.
He-heh.....
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho....
BWHWAAAH-HAAAAH-HAAAH-haaah-ha.
He-he...
</wiping eyes>
...What an idiot
Yeah right. Like Obama really has the experience to tell anyone anything about national defense, the military or anything else.
I’d call this guy Doogie Howser, except Doogie was more believable.
I’m starting to think he was put up by Clinton’s people so that by comparison she would look presidential.
President Bush is refusing to end the war? I thought all those nut-jobs running around Iraq blowing up anything and anyone they can put a bomb next to were doing that.
BHO must have gotten some real bad poll numbers after last week's debate, because every day since he's come out swinging more and more wildly!
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