January 17, 2007 Barack Obama said, "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there". He went on to say, "In fact, I think it will do the reverse."
It turned out that the surge worked and was an astounding success. Violent attacks against US troops and Iraqi citizens are down 80%. Over 90% of Iraqi territory is now quite safe.
Obama was asked, knowing what we know now, if he should have supported the surge. He said, "No", and went on to say this:
"Well, no, keep -- these kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. I think what I am absolutely convinced of is that at that time, we had to change the political debate, because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."
Huh? What in the world did that statement even mean? Sounds like just a bunch of political jibberish to me. The thing that gets me about Obama is not only the fact that he is the king of political jibberish, but he also can't admit when he is wrong. It takes a real man to admit he is wrong.
Do we really want someone who is an expert at putting on a facade and spouting off political jibberish to be our next president?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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