Obama Believes A Military Is Not Necessary For Security In Iraq
When Obama says “There is no military solution in Iraq”, what else can he mean? Given that there can be no political solution without a military component to provide the requisite security, why does he think that removing the only viable military force in the country will lead to a political solution? He doesn’t believe it, he just hopes you won’t notice the absurdity of his position so he can continue to pander to his anti-victory base. We in the pro-victory movement have never said there is an exclusively military solution, but instead that there is no solution without a viable military component to enforce and protect it. Only an idiot could disagree. And since he’s not an idiot, he’s clearly a liar when he pretends that the Right is considering an exclusively military solution to Iraq’s problems.
Associated Press:
Obama: No Military Solution in Iraq
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday the recent increase in American troops in Iraq may well have helped tamp down violence, but he insisted there is no military solution to the country’s problems and U.S. forces should be redeployed soon.
Obama spoke a day after his main Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, made similar comments. She said the tactics of the short-term troop increase were working but political progress did not seem to be in sight and the U.S. should begin bringing some troops home.
Obama said in a telephone briefing, “If we put 30,000 additional troops into Baghdad, it will quell some of the violence short term. I don’t think there is any doubt about that.”
But that won’t solve Iraq’s critical political problems, he said in the call and again later in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
“All of our top military commanders recognize that there is no military solution in Iraq,” Obama said at the VFW convention in Kansas City. “No military surge can succeed without political reconciliation and a surge of diplomacy in Iraq and the region. Iraq’s leaders are not reconciling. They are not achieving political benchmarks. The only thing they seem to have agreed on is to take a vacation.”
He concluded, “That is why I have pushed for a careful and responsible redeployment of troops engaged in combat operations out of Iraq, joined with direct and sustained diplomacy in the region.”
A day earlier, Clinton, too, told the vets that new tactics have brought some success against insurgents, particularly in Iraq’s Anbar province.
“It’s working. We’re just years too late in changing our tactics,” she said. “We can’t ever let that happen again.”
Also on the bill at the VFW event on Tuesday, undeclared Republican candidate Fred Thompson said the U.S. must rebuild its military to fight global terrorism because leaders “took a holiday” in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War.
“Some people in this country think if we can pull out of Iraq, our problems will be over,” Thompson said. “You and I know better than that.”
“Now we’re stretched too thin, and our equipment is wearing out,” said Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who is expected to announce a decision soon on whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination.
Like Sen. John McCain, who is seeking the GOP nomination and spoke to the vets on Monday, Thompson said the United States should not pull out of Iraq.
President Bush addresses the group on Wednesday and plans to argue that the troop buildup is bringing former Sunni insurgents into the fight against al-Qaida and clearing terrorists out of heavily populated areas.
VFW members at the convention applauded most vigorously when the candidates talked about improving government programs for veterans. Poor treatment of wounded troops and veterans has gotten substantial attention in recent months.
Democratic rivals took issue with Clinton’s comments from a day earlier.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said in a statement distributed by his campaign: “The fact is the surge is not working. I do not give President Bush the same credit on Iraq that Hillary does. … The improvement is only in comparison to the previous two months which were horrible.”
And former Michigan Rep. David Bonior, John Edwards’ campaign manager, said, “Senator Hillary Clinton’s view that the president’s Iraq policy is ‘working’ is another instance of a Washington politician trying to have it both ways. You cannot be for the president’s strategy in Iraq but against the war.”
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Obama yo mamma…yo mamma was just good enough fer me…..
Reminds me of a song…hey I can’t help it…this guy makes Tommy Tentpeg look like a fucking genious.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pmIt’s really pathetic, when I have to concede (grudgingly) that Hildawg might be the best dem candidate with national security issues (by means of detriment to the military). Obama, Edwards, Kucinich etc. haven’t a clue.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pmAS WISE ____WTF does that mean?
The Clintons loathe the military and if that loony bit** attains the Presidency we are far f**ked!
August 21st, 2007 at 6:35 pmBut Hilldawg is only flip-flopping now… We don’t need someone who changes their minds based on popular opinion… That’s why respect must be paid to our man Bush…
August 21st, 2007 at 6:42 pmI was going to go on a rant ’bout bareback, but he just is so f’ing stupid I do not know where to start or when to end.
So I’ll just say that bareback hussein obama is a shitstain.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:46 pmI say screw all the democratic candidates..but Klinton is definitely the worst of them all, she definitely has no respect for the military..see this is the difference between the two..
August 21st, 2007 at 6:56 pmHillary- see no need for the military and would refuse to use it because she would rather talk and give in to our enemies
Obama- wouldnt know what to do with our military if given the power..My honest opinion is that i dont think guy could find his own ass with both hands
Cut the ‘Bama some slack, hey…he may be the only thing standing between us and Hillary. Can you imagine? Can you fucking imagine Hillary-fucking-Rodham-Clinton as our Commander-in-Chief? Jesus save us…
August 21st, 2007 at 7:01 pmFor Chistsake Clyde, I’m sure-as-hell not complimenting the Clintons by any means, merely stating that they have used military force in the past; for political reasons. The message that seems to be permeating throughout the left kook base of the democrats right now appears to be that America is never allowed to project military power, only to relegate it to “humanitarian roles”. Fyi A. S. Wise is my first two initials, and my last name, hence deriving “A. S. Wise”.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:18 pmNone of the nut jobs will get in.
Anyone with a shred of intelligence would not vote for them.
Obama is just basking in the limelight of the lib press and what he thinks he can turn around. He blew it long ago. So did Hillary pandering Clinton.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:33 pmPersonally, I can’t wait until Hildawg gets the democratic nomination (and she will)….as it will all but ensure a victory for the right.
August 21st, 2007 at 9:04 pmObama is so retarded.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 amBut, of course, akbar, I mean barak.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 am