War product of 'obstinancy' (Obama)

nwherald.com ^ | 04/15/07 | Jay Newton-Small - Bloomberg News

[Ellesu]

ATLANTA – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said the war in Iraq is a product of President Bush’s “stubbornness and obstinacy.”

“The war is about an administration that is trying to preserve its own political viability,” Obama told a crowd in Atlanta. “We have to keep up ratcheting up the pressure every way and every week to tell the president it’s time to change course, to tell the president it’s time to bring the troops home.”

The Republican Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are at a standoff over $100 billion in emergency funding to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate and the House of Representatives have passed similar supplemental funding measures for the war that set limits for the U.S. presence there.

Both bills must be reconciled before the legislation is sent to the White House. Bush has said he will veto any war- funding measure that contains a timetable for troop withdrawal.

More than 20,000 people attended Obama’s rally at the Georgia Institute of Technology, according to Michael Hodgson, the school’s fire marshal. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won the state of Georgia since 1992.

Obama, an Illinois senator, eclipsed Democratic rival New York Sen. Hillary Clinton during the first quarter in raising money for the primary campaign with $23.5 million.

Bush, in today’s weekly radio address, said the inability to resolve differences on war funding is putting an unnecessary strain on the military.

Troops Waiting

“Our troops are waiting for the funds,” Bush said. “The longer Congress delays, the worse the impact on the men and women of the armed forces will be.”

Obama, as he often does on the campaign trail, highlighted his early opposition to the war in Iraq as an Illinois state senator in 2003. He said Bush was creating a culture of fear in America.

“When it doesn’t work, when suddenly Iraq happens or Katrina happens and people see that you can’t spin people standing on roof tops without food and water, you can’t spin bombing and killings in Iraq,” Bush administration officials “blame it on gay people or Democrats,” Obama said.

The audience was a mix of college students, working parents, blacks and whites, Democrats and Republicans. Obama thanked his crowd, noting its diversity.

“This scene is a testimony to the progress that we’ve made as a nation,” Obama said. It was the second largest crowd Obama has drawn in the two months since he declared his candidacy. The largest was 21,500 people in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 22.

Southern Swing

Obama is swinging through the South. He visited North and South Carolina yesterday and is scheduled to campaign in Florida tomorrow before heading to Milwaukee. An announcer at today’s rally asked the crowd to help Obama win the primary in South Carolina, which has the fourth contest in the nation.

Volunteers collected names and contact information of all those at the Obama rally. While the rally was free, attendees had to obtain tickets online by clicking through a section asking them for donations as well as to register to vote.

Lavonda Crutcher, 43, said she drove 45 minutes from Kennesaw, Georgia, with her husband and three young children to attend the Obama rally, her first political event ever. Crutcher, a customer service specialist with the Red Cross, said she “just wanted to give him a shot.”

“He’s one of color, so I just wanted to see if we could get one into office,” said Crutcher, who said she’s also still considering Clinton.

Kizzy Jones, 24, drove four hours from her college in Winston Salem, North Carolina, to hear Obama speak. While she’s also considering Clinton and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, she was “really, really excited” to see Obama speak today.

“He seems so fresh, so different,” Jones said. “He’s outside of the others in Washington. He brings a new perspective.”

[Ellesu]

“He’s one of color, so I just wanted to see if we could get one into office,” said Crutcher, who said she’s also still considering Clinton.

[mainepatsfan]

“The war is about an administration that is trying to preserve its own political viability,”

Yeah Bush is just doing this to get himself reelected. /s

[Coldwater Creek]

What a fool! (Obama)

[Ellesu]

“When it doesn’t work, when suddenly Iraq happens or Katrina happens and people see that you can’t spin people standing on roof tops without food and water, you can’t spin bombing and killings in Iraq,” Bush administration officials “blame it on gay people or Democrats,” Obama said.

“gay people”?

[mainepatsfan]

Interesting choice of words.

[Diogenesis]

The war in Iraq is a product of the Congress' ineptitude
to terrorist attack after terrorist attack against America.

================= EXHIBIT 1 ================

AMERICANS MURDERED ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 2 ================

TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS.

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 3 ================

VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

Islamic Terrorists (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) attack America
murdering 3000 Americans per hour [pictures censored by the MSM]

The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001

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================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.

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================= EXHIBIT 5================

=========== Islamic terrorists promising to conquer America prior to murdering all Christians and Jews therein.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

[Gay State Conservative]

War product of obstinacy...

For once Osama,you have it exactly right.It's the obstinace of the "holy" book that you studied as child that's the problem.

'Kill all the Jews',it says.Conquer all infidels and either force them to kneel before the Prophet Child Molester or behead them.

Yes,Mr Osama,the world has,through time (as well as recently) seen the obstinace.

I must congratulate you,a guy who's so clean (and articulate) for your effective advocacy for the members of the 9th Century death cult among whom you lived...and "worshiped"...as a child.

[Diogenesis]

[Taichi]

“A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won the state of Georgia since 1992.”

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And trust me a Democrat won’t win this time either.

[Gay State Conservative]

What a fool!

More like a collaborator.I Slam taught him well as a child.

[Gay State Conservative]

Is this a thread about NAMBLA or about the Religion of Pieces"

[Gay State Conservative]

And trust me a Democrat won’t win this time either.

If you're talking nationally,don't be so sure.Hillary! would have a pretty good chance of winning and Edwards would have an excellent chance (he'd carry all of John F'ing Kerry's states and VA as well).

[Coldwater Creek]

Frankly, I think that Obama is just ignorant, and is repeating what he has heard other Dem “Statesmen” in their ignorance say.

We are a military family, and I am greatly offended.

[Taichi]

Actually I was referring to GA. We have as a state become even more conservative, a loon assemblage at GA Tech not withstanding.

Atlanta is a blue dot in a sea of red but does not have the power to influence the state vote as a whole.

Personally I don’t see Edwards lasting until the end. I think he’s going to run out of steam pretty quickly.

Hillary I keep putting in the unknown block, it’s pretty hard to say where the wind is going to blow her, because it looks like she has gotten a bit rudderless as of late.

[peeps36]

Obama is only being propped up by the left because of the color of his skin. He doesn’t even come close to being qualified to lead this country at such an important time. A candidate can’t win an election with the votes of the far left and the African American vote. I predict he loses in a landslide if he can get past the queen of liberal stupidity.

[Clock King]

“He’s one of color, so I just wanted to see if we could get one into office,” said Crutcher, who said she’s also still considering Clinton.

Unfortunately, I've heard other black women say the same thing. Usually working-class high-school-only educated ones. This is what frustrates me about "democracy". Citizens like this give 0 thought to what the candidate stands for or means. The latch on to race or gender or attractiveness. Such people, IMHO, should not be afforded the franchise of voting. They would put a monster in charge who would enslave them. Not that I believe Obama is a monster.