Senator Barack Obama is not stuck on stupid; he knows the tide of battle in Iraq has turned decisively in America’s and Iraq’s favor. Yet he always bets on red — the bloody trail of America’s defeat — as the road to his personal victory in November.
In a New York Post editorial this morning:
Both The New York Times and the Washington Post this week had front-page stories about successful operations by Iraqi forces to root out Shiite militias in Baghdad’s Sadr City — a significant turning point in the war and a huge accomplishment for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
But there Obama was Tuesday evening patting himself on the back for his Oregon primary victory while once again repeating the same old tired formulation about the “failed” Bush policy in Iraq, “that asks everything of our troops and nothing of Iraqi politicians.”
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[Barack Obama] certainly hasn’t let the facts change his opinion about what is going on in Iraq or what the United States should do in response. Like a broken record, he just keeps repeating the same old tune.If he really were a new kind of politician, he’d cheer what’s happening in Iraq, compliment Prime Minister Maliki for his strides and rethink his promise to undercut the progress by a precipitous withdrawal of all American troops.
In his stubborn refusal to admit things have changed in Iraq, Obama is looking more and more like a throwback to the Vietnam protesters who actively promoted America’s defeat in order to prove they were right in their opposition to the Vietnam War. He may not be old enough to remember firsthand the shouts of “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,” or the Viet Cong flags hoisted at anti-war rallies of that era.
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