Comments on: Obama: Iraq Distracts From Other Threats

Says Overall U.S. Interests Have Been Hurt By Troop Increase

[credibility2]

Well, duh! Another brilliant rhetorical utterance out of the mouth of the great contrived presidential hopeful.

[tcart2]

Here he goes agin, FLIP FLOP - FLIP FLOP!!!!

[megamanx1-2009]

Bush is like obsessed with Iraq. He''s like "Afghani-where???" "That''s a country??"

[realpatriot1]

Ariel133,

We should win one war at a time starting with the one involving those who actually attacked us.

Whether or not you think the Iraqi surge is working depends upon your prespective of the war we''re actually in.

i''m under the illusion that the war on terror is being conducted against us by the forces who attacked us on September 11 and they are cooling their heels in Pakastan while their minions retake the territory our soldiers previously liberated in Afghanistan.

I''m sick of hearing about the horror that will take place if we leave Iraq from people who have no concern about the horror that will take place in Afghanistan if the Taliban retakes the country.

We have a choice in Afghanistan regarding the message we want to send to those who would attack the U.S. again.

Either we can send the message that you can evade paying for attacking us if you find a safe haven in a soverign nation with a friendly government, or we can send the message that if you attack America we will go wherever we have to in order to extract justice.

Our goal should not be to occupy the middle east or protect oil, or make the middle east safe for democracy.

It should be to directly confront those who continue to plan attacks against us and to remove their ability to do so as much as we can.

In doing so, we don''t have to explain ourselves to Musharif or the U.N. or anyone else. Afghanistan relates directly to our natonal security. Iraq never has.

[gospadina]

So, Obama isn''t really against war, he just likes it to be the war of his own choosing. Sounds like another "decider". How can he continue to make the claim that he is for change when he sounds so much like more of the same.

[ariel133]

Obama campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

"The surge is not working," Obama''s old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama''s campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an "improved security situation" paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

It praises G.I.s'' "hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice."

[ariel133]

Win one war at a time- Ignoring the fact our presence in Iraq isn''t entirely the major hurdle is disasterous, middle east countries havew terrorists and in one form or another- relate to each other- and though Obama seems to mean well, he is basing his strategy on things he knows little about or has even seen up close- Signs of inexperiance. He will project a major flip flop when he returns and reinforce his lack of experiance. Time will show this. Wait and see.