On Sep 7, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:
On Sep 7, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
On Sep 7, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
On Sep 7, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/04/obama_appears_on_oreillys_show.html
"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody
anticipated," Obama told O'Reilly of President Bush's decision
last year to increase troop levels. "It's succeeded beyond our
wildest dreams."
He said he would "never take military action off the table" in the
case of Iran. "It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear
weapon; it would be a game changer," Obama said.
He can't publicly rule out any option, nor could Bush. Privately
there might be a different idea but it's kind of silly to expect
him to say anything else. It would be reckless to publicly say
"I'd never use military action."
--Larry
"It's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."
that's the quote which will be used by the opposition to show he
demonstrated poor judgement when he said the surge wasn't going to
work
what does he mean by "succeeded" ? and "beyond wildest dreams"
While he has explained the "success" of the surge in context ... I
think the above statement could come back to bite him.
It's an absolute brian fart. He might have well have said 'I'm a fool.
Vote for McCain'.
You point being? :-)
A Soldier/Physician friend of mine just got back from his third tour.
He summed it up this way. A KFC just opened in the middle of
downtown Fallujah.
They walk, not in patrol formation but just as pedestrians to and from
it to grab lunch and there are long lines of people
waiting to by their bucket of chicken.
A year or so ago you would have been crazy to do that.
Route Irish (the main road between the airport and the green zone )
is controlled by Iraqi forces now.
There were NO shootings while he was there.
Anbar province was just turned over to the Iraqi forces. Anbar!!
That absolutely would qualify as "beyond wildest dreams" and it
happened only because of the surge gave the locals confidence to have
their "awakening"
Obama may have been right about not going into Iraq but he got the
surge wrong.
=c=
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