Q: But Why Was Obama Against the War?
A:
Posted on 06/20/2008 6:37:03 PM PDT by Sioux-san
Much has been made about the “when” of Barack Obama’s opposition to the war—before his opponents, before the war for that matter--but very little about the “why” or “how” of it.
The “War in Iraq” page on Obama’s official web site leads with a speech he gave in Iowa in September 2007 that purports to answer the “why” question.
“I made a different judgment,” says Obama, contrasting himself with senatorial naifs like Clinton and Edwards, “who took the president at his word.”
Obama tells us that he was keen on “reading the intelligence for himself.” This intelligence led him and him alone to worry “about an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs, and undetermined consequences.”
Obama’s supporters have quoted this now famous “undetermined” riff endlessly, as has Obama himself. It was the most important line in his most important speech, the one that positioned him to beat Hillary Clinton.
The Obama website, however, is purposely vague about the original speech. It boasts of it but only in general terms. “As a candidate for the United States Senate in 2002,” it tells us, “Obama put his political career on the line to oppose going to war in Iraq,”
Of course, he did no such thing because he was no such candidate. In 2002, Obama was an unknown ward healer from Chicago’s notoriously crooked South Side. What he was for or against was irrelevant. He would run for the U.S. Senate in 2004, not 2002.
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the american left has always opposed american wars of “expansionism”,
but conversely the american left has supported communist wars of liberation.
Obama hs been inconsistent on teh war. While running for the Senate in 2004, he told the media, “Pulling out now would make things worse.” He siad it would be a “blow to America’s national security.” He said he would be willing to send mor troops if it was part of a strategy to stabilize the country, and he said “My position isn’t very different from George Bush’s at this point.”
It’s only when he decided he wanted to be Presiden that he suddenly had been against he war all along.
The politics of change.
Obama has no access to intelligence, period, his own or governmental.
In fact, he has no intelligence, period.
That is his problem, and America’s.
So why is that any different? His whole life he's evidently had no intelligence.
bttt
Maybe something about Chicken’s coming home to roost. Wonder if he ever made statement about Iraq in 1998 concerning WMD’s like his buddy Dick Durbin.
Maybe something about Chicken’s coming home to roost. Wonder if he ever made statement about Iraq in 1998 concerning WMD’s like his buddy Dick Durbin.
mark
Congratulations for being so perseptive with regard to B.O. HUSSEIN and Truthful:-)
What is the difference between a B.O. HUSSEIN Presidency and a Saddam HUSSEIN Presidency???
Give UP?
ANSWER:
I dont know and suspect there isnt much at the end of the day!
Do You want to take the chance to find out? I dont!
Obama is no different from any other surrender monkey (e.g. the French in their unwillingness to fight for principle against Iraq).
And who is Rezko’s puppet master...
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