This Just In: Obama Says The War In Iraq Is Just A Distraction From Real The Real Issues

Sound familiar? Everything that is not convenient to Obama’s campaign is a “distraction.”
One gets the idea, though, that if the war in Iraq weren’t going so well it wouldn’t be a “distraction” any more. It’d be a serious campaign issue that Obama would talk about all the time. As it is, one gets the idea that Obama would just as soon not talk about Iraq.
Obama is also saying that Iraq is a distraction from the other threats facing America. Which is more than a bit disingenuous. Right now the biggest threat facing the world is the radicalism and terrorism springing from the middle east. The only way to combat that radicalism and terrorism is to have boots on the ground there to drive back the oppression so that the people of the region can leave in peace and prosperity. We’re doing that in Iraq. We’re doing that in Afghanistan. Those two operations have, and will continue to, make a world of difference in terms of the threat the middle east poses.
No amount of schmoozing with the President of Iran is going to change that.