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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Why can't Obama be honest?

Today, President Obama is in Iraq touting his new policy for US involvement in that country. After a campaign full of endless criticism of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, Obama has now made clear his plans for this middle eastern battlefield. What are these new plans? Why, they are the same plans as those he denounced, the same as those of the Bush administration.

Obama wants to remove troops as the situation in Iraq improves and Iraq can take care of itself. Bush used to describe this policy as "we will sit down as the iraqi troops stand up." Obama also has a withdrawal plan where he only withdraws about 2/3 of the US troops in Iraq. This is pretty much in line with the plans announced by Bush last summer, although Bush's plans had less certainty about the dates.

Does anyone remember the Democrat attack ads that ran when McCain said that his goal was not removing troops, but rather saving lives, so that it would be ok with him to have US troops in Iraq for 100 years if it meant that they were not being wounded or killed. Now Obama is leaving 1/3 of the troops there and we do not hear a peep out of the same Democrats.

Wouldn't it be nice if obama just once were to congratulate the troops for victory in Iraq. We hear about the dead and wounded, but never about what they accomplished. No one among the Democrats has the guts to admit that Bush and the surge brought us victory rather than the defeat that Reid announced and most of his Democratic colleagues rooted for.

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