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Tuesday, July 15, 2008


More On Obama’s Iraq Surge Flip Flop

Rich Lowry:

At some point, Democrats decided that facts didn’t matter anymore in Iraq. And they nominated just the man to reflect the party’s new anti-factual consensus on the war, a Barack Obama who has fixedly ignored changing conditions on the ground. . . .

Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting) a civil war.”

Now that the civil war has all but ended, he wants to claim retroactive clairvoyance. In a New York Times op-ed laying out his position, Obama credits the heroism of our troops and new tactics with bringing down the violence.

Obama desperate wants to appear to know what he’s talking about on Iraq.  The problem is that he doesn’t, and all his past statements about the war that have turned out to be wrong (statements he and his campaign are now actively trying to sweep under the rug) prove it.

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Comments

The nice word is contemporary revisionism.  The honest word is lying.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on July 15, 2008 at 09:01 am

Obama has taken the title of Flip-Flop master away from Kerry. He is now the Crown Prince of Flip-Flops.

I hope someone is keeping track and on Labor day they will send out and keep sending out until election day the Obama Top 100 Flip-Flops!


In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Neiman on July 15, 2008 at 09:33 am

Rich Lowry is being unusually generous in his assessment of the Democrats… and unnecessarily penurious with his criticism.

The fact is, there is not a single issue addressed by Obama and the Democrats where their pronouncements can be demonstrated to have been factual, pertinent, and consistent.  Not a single one!

Dishonesty among those on the Left is both epidemic and congenital.


“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Bat One on July 15, 2008 at 10:24 am
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According to some sources, the success of the surge was not necessarially accredited to an increase in troops, but rather a change in military tactics.  For example, they took out soldiers from the forward operating bases (FOBs)around Baghdad and transformed them into community police officers who lived in the neighborhoods where they worked.  They are holding talks with the Iraqi (ex)insurgents and Iran.  Basically, there has been a shift away from the thinking that military might is the only solution to this problem, and towards the idea of winning the “hearts and minds”.  This change has been, in a large part, due to the good work of General Petraeus.  In addition, the Sunni tribes are switching sides and opposing terrorists.

It’s a surge against the old cowboy way of doing things.

chris on July 16, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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