Say Anything Blog

Speaking of Iraq and distractions, Obama’s been sending some inconvenient truth from his campaign website down the memory hole.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a “problem” that had barely reduced violence.

“The surge is not working,” Obama’s old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama’s campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an “improved security situation” paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007. It praises G.I.s’ “hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice.”

So the surge worked and Iraq, by Obama’s own admission, has an “improved security situation.” But do you think Obama will admit that he was wrong?

Don’t bet on it.  Obama will only admit to a limited amount of success in Iraq so that he doesn’t look like a completely disconnected from reality dunderhead, but ultimately what is actually going on in Iraq doesn’t matter at all to Obama.  He decided long ago that the war was a failure, and no amount of success and victory is going to change his mind.

Because at this point he can’t change his mind.  The far-left pushed him to the Democrat candidacy.  If he flip-flops completely on the war he’ll lose the far-left.

All he can do now is tacitly acknowledge the success in so, again, he doesn’t look like a complete fool and then hope that Americans don’t notice how wrong he’s been about Iraq since the first day of his campaign.