Posted on 12/18/2007 11:50:53 AM PST by mdittmar
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Tuesday blasted President Bush’s foreign policy record, saying that “his judgments will be subject to the harsh light of history, and the verdict will not be kind.”
But Obama also criticized his main opponents for the Democratic nomination for helping start the Iraq war.
“It’s easy for us to lay all of the problems of the world at George Bush’s doorstep,” Obama said in Des Moines, Iowa.
“George Bush did not take us to war alone,” the Illinois senator stated, noting that Congress authorized the use of force.
Obama indicated that his opposition to the war gives him an edge in a general election matchup.
“My opponent won’t be able to say that I ever supported the war in Iraq, or that I don’t support a clear timetable to bring our troops home,” Obama said, taking a swipe at Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). “He won’t be able to say that I voted to use our troops in Iraq to counter Iran, or that I support the Bush-Cheney diplomacy of not talking to leaders we don’t like.”
Obama reiterated his pledge to personally talk to Iran about its choices.
“We need a president who is willing to talk to all nations — friend and foe,” Obama said. “Not talking doesn’t make us look tough, it makes us look arrogant.”
The Illinois senator pledged to listen to all of his advisers and said that there would not be an “ideological or loyalty test” in his administration.
Hussein SPEAKS!
Obama won’t even be a blip in history.
Ah. Well, now that makes sense.
Seems this would backfire. After 9-11 Bush had an astronomical approval rating. Heck, left-wing nuts got so bitter about his popularity they coined the term "neo-con" to describe those who became conservative overnight. And today, they have evolved this bitterness into a delusional array of "it was all an inside job" conspiracy theories.
No, when America gets hammered they wake up and want a conservative in office.
One Hussein deserves another eh, Barry Obama?
Edwards...
I’d like to know what countries W hasn’t talked to ? (not that I think we need to talk to every country)
Sheesh, we’ve even talked to Iran, the last country I’d honor with a visit from ANY American official.
Our President, GW Bush, is one of the greatest American presidents in history. I rank them like this: Lincoln, Washington, Reagan, GW Bush.
He has conquered 2 Islamic nations and led the foundation for democracy and peace in the Mid-East. No Democrat president, has ever met the greatness of GW Bush’s accomplishments.
I grew up there. I can remember him being called a Saber-rattler and boy was his visit to the graveyard near Bittburg a big deal to them (Some former SS soldiers were buried there as well). Of course he was labeled as a stupid “cowboy” and “actor.” Ronald Reagan represented everything they as a society can’t come to grips with: globalization and free trade, freedom isn’t free and needs defended, the right to bear arms, Americas leadership role in the West, the concept of free-men and personal culpability, and that a moral compass in leadership is necessary. From nukes in Germany to the bombing of Libya, Iran, and Stingers to Afghanistan; allowing a free floating exchange rate between the DM and dollar to deregulation of airlines; from the right to bear arms to the death penalty; for the German even if Ronald Reagan is personally more to credit for their own freedom and unification than any other individual German or American, they simply can’t fathom why. It is beside them why someone would vote for him, why anyone would like him, even today. In fact, collectively the Germans don’t give him credit for much and he’s more or less faded from their collective consciousness. His thinking is so far beside their paradigm they simply can’t accept him. To the socialist, those advocating pacifist/appeasement in face of an adversary may that be the Communists or today radical Islam, to those secular minded people who substitute God with government cheese programs, those who are willing to limit freedom for the “collective good,” and seeking a solution to every problem with another subsidy or government program, it is impossible to give credit to a Reagan which is essentially their antithesis.
There is a reason why in Poland and Hungary busts and statues of Reagan are erected in parks and public squares:
http://www.budapestweek.com/index2.html
http://gophub.com/story.php?title=Poland_Honors_Reagans_Defeat_of_Communism
There is a reason why in Germany you won’t hear anything about him anymore.
If I could meet president Bush in person, I would have 4 words for him, “Thank you Mr. President”.
If I could meet Dumbo ears in person, I would have 2 words for him, “—— —”.
But Obama also criticized his main opponents for the Democratic nomination for helping start the Iraq war.
Obama evidently thinks the war started in 2003. It didn't, it started in 1990 when his namesake invaded Kuwait. Nothing that happened since happened in a vacuum, which is where his brain has evidently been residing all that time.
Bush isn't worried about history's verdict. History didn't elect him.
And FR will be here to remind everyone what the democrat traitors tried to do to our Troops.
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