In Baghdad, More Good News for Obama

re: In Baghdad, More Good News for Obama

Sashland — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:37:47 GMT

newsweek manufacturing "news" and and claiming that the success and benefits of the surge are "Good News" for obama? Chin Up and Best Foot Forward, right? Fawning and unprofessional propaganda and more degrading of the newsweek brand..

The good news is that we did not betray and abandon the Iraqis, and that they now have a growing capacity to defend their freedom. The best news? Iraq, a predominately Muslim nation, has chosen to fight alongside the American "invaders" and have rejected Osama and Al Q. That is indeed the great news of the Battle of Iraq. Ironically, the surge that Obama OPPOSED is likely to get our troops home sooner than a half-brained retreat that would need to be followed by another invasion to clean up the bigger mess that Obama would have created. HE WAS WRONG!!!

The most important lessons that the Iraqis have learned are from the US Military. Despite all of the brutal and tragic, even criminal mistakes, the US Military has shown that a pluralistic society is worthwhile and plausible. Just as the US Military showed the way in the US in desegregation.

Now that the Iraqi's are beginning to have their own military to defend themselves, the temptation is to quit before the job is done. America should, and hopefully will, reject that still bad advice. Give them the time to get a functioning Air Force and deliver the military hardware they are buying from the US.

A free Iraq will change the middle east equation for hundreds of years. Liberating Iraq and removing an enemy of the US was a noble and correct action, despite the twisting facts coming from confused writers. Perfect? NO. Best Alternative give the FACTS? No Doubt!

Newsweek, please stop making up quotes through "mistranslations". If Iraq wanted your man's timetable it would be incorporated into the Status of Forces Agreement. They DON'T agree with Obama on the timetalle; they want the US to leave, but not too soon.

Lieberman got it right: If the US had followed Obama's advice then it wouldn't even have been safe enough for O to visit Baghdad. Read the recent editorials in Wash. Post and WSJ if you need a clue about Obama being stuck outside reality. Newsweek has fallen a long way over the years...

re: In Baghdad, More Good News for Obama

bayoustuff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:43:42 GMT

Sashland.... If the US followed Obama's advice, we would have never waged this war!! Do you remember the faulty premise that launched this war?? Does "weapons of mass destruction" ring a bell? There were no weapons found ... this was a ploy by the rogue Bush Administration. Senator Obama's presence globally will give the US a far better image than we have now!

re: In Baghdad, More Good News for Obama

Sashland — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:11:44 GMT

bayoustuff

Are you saying that the CIA lied to Bush in the NIE when it wrote Iraq had WNDs and was continuing efforts to build more? Have you read the NIE and the (agreed as a group) conclusions of the intelligence agencies? Yah, didn't think so...

Have you read the Deulfer Report? The CIA reported AFTER THE WAR, that Sadamm had bio and chem labs that were never discovered by the UN inspections, and that these labs had conducted "testing" on humans? Read the section about 'Pesticide factories' and considered dual use, as previously employed in the Iran/Iraq War? Yah, didn't think so...

What next, you're going to claim that sanctions would have worked if we had just waited, longer, again, and that the the Oil for Food corruption was a plot of the rogue Bush Administration to make Iraq look bad. That right, you probably didn't ever read about the $10 billion stolen from babies mouths under the guise of humanitarian aid, all the while blaming Bush for starving babies.

This is the stuff of dangerous delusions: like making up quotes about how Al Maliki agrees with the Obama timeline and then having it parroted by obamaniacs as the TRUTH. Maliki was being polite; what he probably wanted to tell him was "You dumb a**, what were you trying to do with that "withdraw by March 2008 BS, get all of us in the Iraq government killed?"

"faulty premise" my rear exit.

Where is the newsweek correction?

re: In Baghdad, More Good News for Obama

chuckhasker@yahoo.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:29:36 GMT

According to Andrew Romano and Stumper: The above article was posted on Stumper from; Here's a dispatch from Larry Kaplow and Lennox Samuels in Baghdad: "Sen. Barack Obama got a red-carpet greeting in the Green Zone" The article paints a perfect presidential photo of Obama and President Maliki discussing a troop withdrawl timetable from Iraq. However according to PFC Cory Kenfield, (who happens to be boots on the ground,) in an article on Newsweeks bloggers site Checkpoint Baghdad and Soldier's Home, for NEWSWEEK bloggers Larry Kaplow (our Baghdad bureau chief), PFC Cory said "He'll (Obama) probably go to the Green Zone and say he hung out with the troops. When really all he'd be doing is hanging out with mechanics and colonels," PFC Cory Kenfield said (this because) of the general absence of infantry troops in the Green Zone. It seems Obama is looking for Photo ops and deal making for his future position as president rather than actually discovering what is actually developing on the ground. Is Obama seeking the truth or making deals that will effect his future when it comes to Iraq? i Would like to remind Senator Obama that he is not the President of the United States as of this date. Chuck Hasker