Obama's Biggest Flip-Flop on Iraq

American Thinker ^ | September 16, 2014 | Allan J. Favish

[AJFavish]

In a speech on the floor of the United States Senate on June 21, 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama warned against a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq that would endanger Iraq and the United States. Here is the complete text of that speech. You can hear an audio excerpt here. The more important parts of the speech are highlighted with italics by the author.

[BenLurkin]

[Mr. K]

So this is actually a Flip-Flop-Flip

[TexasCajun]

But having visited Iraq, I am also acutely aware that a precipitous withdrawal of our troops, driven by congressional edict rather than the realities on the ground, will not undo the mistakes made by this administration. It could compound them.

It could compound them by plunging Iraq into an even deeper and, perhaps, irreparable crisis.

We must exit Iraq, but not in a way that leaves behind a security vacuum filled with terrorism, chaos, ethnic cleansing and genocide that could engulf large swaths of the Middle East and endanger America. We have both moral and national security reasons to manage our exit in a responsible way.

[missnry]

In a speech on the floor of the United States Senate on June 21, 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama

Dear Reader did not mean anything at the time. He was merely READING what a staffer gave him to read. He READS off teleprompters or papers. He reads! That is all he has ever done while the media spins him as a "great orator."

[TexasCajun]