Sarah Palin Sees Iraq ‘Victory Within Sight’
Thank you Mrs. Palin, so do we!
Saturday, 06 September 2008
STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan (Agencies)
Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin said on Friday that a U.S. victory in Iraq is “within sight”, attributing the imminent success to the surge of troops sent to Iraq last year who have helped quell violence there.
Palin praised running mate John McCain’s strong support for the surge at a time when it was highly unpopular and threatened to derail his campaign for the Republican nomination.
“He refused to break faith with the troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight,” the Alaska governor told an enthusiastic crowd in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
“And as a mother of one of those troops that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief.”
Palin, whose son will deploy to Iraq next week, attacked rival Barack Obama’s opposition to the surge and warned that he would not protect the United States if he were to win the November 4 election.
“If the United States military had suffered defeat at the hands of Al-Qaeda in Iraq our nation would have been less safe today and millions of innocent would have been left to a violent fate,” Palin said.
“That tragedy would have happened if Barak Obama had gotten his way and Congress had cut off funding for the surge.
“It didn’t happen though because John McCain was right and he had the vision and the will to see the surge through to victory.”
Obama on Thursday said the surge had “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams” but argued he had shown better judgment than McCain because he opposed the war from its start.
He has committed to start troop withdrawals immediately if he is inaugurated president next January, and believes he can get most American soldiers out of Iraq within 16 months.
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OMG!
Look at that picture!
I can see that woman as CiC!! So much MORE so than Obama!
September 7th, 2008 at 7:47 amI was thinking the same thing. If Obama’s president there’s no way in hell I would want to be commissioned under him. But it probably won’t matter. 20 minuets after Obama’s Biden will be President.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:04 amWell Drill, she certainly has a lot more executive experience. Tact as well, oh and uh she doesn’t say “uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh” whenever the teleprompter is down.
Besides twenty years from now when Iraq is the Germany or Japan of the middle east (not sure if they’ll be making sports cars or trucks but we rebuilt those countries for decades after that war and today no one even knows the names of the people that opposed the Marshall Plan or Berlin Airlift) people will look back and realize that committing to the proper rebuilding of the country was the right thing to do. The 110th congress will be a very tiny footnote if it gets a mention at all in the next generations text books.
I’m just hoping we don’t get another Truman or peanut farmer between now and then.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:36 am