Obama's War

An examination of both Obama's statements and his Senate votes demonstrates something very different from the consistency that he and his supporters have claimed for him. It demonstrates instead a record of problematically ad-hoc judgments at best, calculatingly cynical judgments at worst. Almost as soon as the war began Obama had second thoughts about his opposition to it. As he told the Chicago Tribune in July 2004, "There's not much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage." In September 2004 Obama said that even though Bush had "bungled his handling of the war," simply pulling out "would make things worse." In November he once again confirmed his intention to stay the course in Iraq in an interveiw with PBS's Charlie Rose. "Once we go in, then we're committed," he said adding: "We've got to do everything we can to stabilize the country, to make it successful, because we have too much at stake in the Middle East." But in October 2006 Obama said we had to initiate quickly a "phased withdraw." Within a mere matter of weeks Obama had moved to align himself with the most extreme critics of the war. This re-positioning coincided with the announcement of his presidential candidacy in February 2007.

The article continues, "In May 2007 Obama did something he had never done previously: he voted in the Senate against funding for combat operations. By September he was saying the moment had arrived to remove ALL combat troops "immediately." When there was a substantial drop in violence due to the surge Obama said it had nothing to do with the surge. Rather, he attributed it to the November 2006 Democratic election victories. He also refuses to entertain the possibility that diplomacy might fail or what steps would be necessary should that in fact happen. Nor has he deigned to credit or even notice the strenuous diplomatic efforts undertaken over the years by the allegedly trigger happy Bush administration to negotiate with Iran, North Korea and others. Nor, finally, has he absorbed any useful lesson from the disillusioning outcomes of these efforts - let alone other, even more emolliment efforts by our European allies and the UN. Such willful innocence, in a President, can be lethal." These are only a few of the inconsistencies and banalities in what serves as a "foreign policy" for Obama - who is a victim of his own hopeless lack of experience, preparation and knowledge of a world that goes far beyond the State Legislature of Illinois, the Rev. Wright, Rezko, and cronies who are alumni of the Weatherman terrorist school.

“... a one-term United States Senator who arrived in Washington in 2005 with no foreign-policy experience, after an uneventful eight-year stint in the Illinois state senate, possesses the wisdom, the clear-sightedness, and the judgment to assume the responsibilities of the nation’s commander in chief.”

We’re doomed if Obambi is elected.

I keep thinking of the people who jumped from the WTC to avoid incineration. Horrifying.

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