Iraqis Differ on Obama's Plans

Washington Post ^ | July 19, 2008 | Sudarsan Raghavan

[FocusNexus]

As Sen. Barack Obama prepares for his second visit to Iraq, Iraqis are divided over his plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops in 16 months should he be elected president.

"Iraq will be in hell, and we will find ourselves at the gates of civil war," said Maied Rashed al-Nuaemi, a provincial council member in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq where Iraqi forces are battling the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. "The American presence in Iraq is the safety valve to keep this country quiet. If they withdraw, that will lead to calamity."

Mohammed Sulaiman, 56, a retired government employee in Baghdad, said: "The proposal of Obama to pull out the troops by summer 2010 is foolish. If the United States withdraws from Iraq, I think its credibility among the international countries would collapse."

Supporters of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said it will not matter who is elected president. "U.S. foreign policy would not be changed by changing the president," said Nassar al-Rubaie, the head of Sadr's political bloc in parliament. Whether the next president is "Republican or Democrat, we completely reject the occupation under any circumstances."

[FocusNexus]

Maybe Obama will meet with al Sadr...

America's enemies want Obama to be president.

[xkaydet65]

Speaking of the haloed one, which of the three anchors will be the first to slip up an talk about what President Obama said today during the haloed one’s Iraqi Adventure? I’m betting on Brian Williams.

[FocusNexus]

Cross referencing an article I found subsequently, which I think gives a more realistic view about what the Iraqis really think:

Iraqis unmoved by Obama’s anti-war rhetoric

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047863/posts

[PaleoBob]

“...Iraqis are divided over his plan...”

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This is the kind of worthless garbage that passes for “news” or “analysis” these days. It’s as meaningful as reporting that some fans are rooting for the AL but others are rooting for the NL. The Post should stick to forecasting a 50 percent chance of rain tomorrow. Or, um, a 50 percent chance it won’t.

[karnage]

Iraqis are divided over Obama’s plan: some hate it, some fear it, some hate and fear it.

[Impy]

I those idiots would get their act together, eventually as a society they must stand up to islamomarxism.

[PaleoBob]

The world is divided into two kinds of people—those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.

[JasonC]

The left never asks those it pretends to speak for what they actually want themselves. Ever.