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The Flip Flopping Obama-Rama: Then and Now, Refining Withdrawal
Stuck On Stupid ^ | July 3, 2008 | quaker

Posted on 07/03/2008 7:10:24 PM PDT by Quaker

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“I am going to do a thorough assessment when I’m there,” he told reporters on the airport tarmac here. “I’m sure I’ll have more information and continue to refine my policy.”

“I’m going to continue to gather information to see whether those conditions still hold,” he said. “My goal is to end this conflict as soon as possible.”

“My 16-month timeline, if you examine everything that I’ve said, was always premised on making sure that our troops were safe…I said that based on the information that we had received from our commanders that one to two brigades a month could be pulled out safely, from a logistical perspective. My guiding approach continues to be that we’ve got to make sure that our troops are safe and that Iraq is stable.”.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: flipflop; flipflopflipflop; foreignpolicy; iraq; obama

1 posted on 07/03/2008 7:12:02 PM PDT by Quaker
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To: Quaker
From NewsBusters.org:
BARACK OBAMA CLIP #1, DATED MAY 18: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us.

OBAMA CLIP #2, DATED MAY 18: Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. I mean, if Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance.

OBAMA CLIP #3, DATED MAY 20: Iran is a grave threat. It has an illicit nuclear program. It supports terrorism across the regions and militias in Iraq. It threatens Israel's existence. It denies the Holocaust.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/23/fnc-shows-obamas-iran-flip-flop-colmes-might-talk-hitler

2 posted on 07/03/2008 7:14:06 PM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: Quaker
John 'Flip Flop' Kerry on "cutting and running" in Iraq

From a December 2003 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):

"I have said before -- and I repeat today -- that the Bush administration should swallow its pride and reverse course. But the evidence is obviously strong that it lacks the wisdom or will to do so.

In fact, I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy. Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal dates, without adequate stability, is an invitation to failure. The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election.

I have called for the administration to transfer sovereignty, and they must transfer it to the Iraqi people as quickly as circumstances permit. But it would be a disaster and a disgraceful betrayal of principle to speed up the process simply to lay the groundwork for a politically expedient withdrawal of American troops. That could risk the hijacking of Iraq by terrorist groups and former Ba'athists. Security and political stability cannot be divorced. Security must come first, and that is why it is so imperative to succeed in building a genuine coalition on the ground in Iraq."

...more

http://www.cfr.org/publication/6576/making_america_secure_again.html

3 posted on 07/03/2008 7:17:48 PM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: Quaker

Obama still thinks he is in Rev Wright’s church, doing community organizing, where jive talking was the way to get your street cred and show you be down for the struggle.

Not going to work very well in the real world. People are going to get real tired of a liar real quick.

I still think ‘Jive Talking’ by the BeeGees would be the perfect campaign song for Obama.


4 posted on 07/03/2008 7:28:14 PM PDT by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: ETL

If the safety of our troops remains his priority why is he not still for total immediate withdrawal? This guy is intellectually bankrupt. Another case for you parents of college applicants to stay far away from the Ivy League.


5 posted on 07/03/2008 7:28:45 PM PDT by madameguinot (Liberal Ideology: Peace and Torture. Hooray President Uribe!)
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To: Quaker
“I am going to do a thorough assessment when I’m there,”

Just what the heck will be his reference point? Reid, Pelosi, Murtha? Gee, thanks for your assessment Senator Hussein.

6 posted on 07/03/2008 7:33:35 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Quaker
Just saw an ad for bHussein Obama (May peace be upon him)

He claims to have moved people off welfare, and cut taxes for working people.

The Marxist is trying to sound like Reagan.

7 posted on 07/03/2008 7:33:42 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: madameguinot
John Kerry's "priority", like back in Vietnam, is for us to LOSE the war. He's been with the commie left for decades.

June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline


http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline

8 posted on 07/03/2008 7:37:39 PM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: madameguinot

His supporter’s ain’t gonna like this.He is getting ready for his move to the middle:)


9 posted on 07/03/2008 7:41:18 PM PDT by fatima
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To: Tarpon
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“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.


10 posted on 07/03/2008 7:45:21 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Quaker
IN A TIME OF WAR JOHN MCCAIN SERVED AND SUFFERED FOR HIS COUNTRY.



WHILE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SERVED HIMSELF...AND STILL DOES.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


NOBAMA '08 SIGHTED IN EMMETT, ID, JULY 2ND, 2008

11 posted on 07/03/2008 7:50:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Quaker
Hardware-topped thongs

12 posted on 07/03/2008 7:51:38 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Quaker

Exactly what commanders have been advising the Obama campaign?


13 posted on 07/03/2008 7:58:09 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Tarpon

I think this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k would be the perfect Obama theme.


14 posted on 07/03/2008 8:25:59 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: Dick Bachert

Killers of the Constitution...then and now.

How many terms will Barack have?

That can’t be Eleanor that FDR has his arm around...You should add a picture of that beast.


15 posted on 07/03/2008 9:18:24 PM PDT by Grandsons of Liberty (Revolutionaries for the 21st Century)
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To: Quaker
The Democrats are going to abandon their opposition to the War the closer we get to November. They're happy to hand Bush a defeat but they're not going to do that a fellow Democrat. And they have all sorts of reason to want to help make his presidency a success. Never mind the barking moonbats. If the American people wanted the country out, it would already have happened.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

16 posted on 07/03/2008 9:27:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: RipSawyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8XVJx5bjrI


17 posted on 07/04/2008 8:30:01 AM PDT by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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