Obama's Surge Problem

Gen. David Petraeus advised George W. Bush last week to stop withdrawing troops from Iraq because the situation is so fragile. There were suicide bombings in Baghdad and Iraq last week and there are ominous political signs on the horizon that indicate Iraq will eventually destruct. So, I don't think the surge was a success by any measure, except for the small part it played in temporarily bringing down violence. Before the election, we may very well see war with the insurgency or civil war breakout in Iraq. Then, the G.O.P. spin meisters will have another problem on their hands. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Obama says anything to get himself elected. The problem is most Americans don't see it and the media don't care about it.

O'Reilly complimented Obama on his position of not invading Iraq. A couple months ago, George Stephanopoulos asked McCain if knowing what we know about Iraq would he still have invaded Iraq. McCain said yes.

Why isn't McCain getting media coverage for saying he still thinks the invasion of Iraq was the correct thing to do? McCain started doing the rounds with the media and comedy shows the day after 9/11. McCain was also pushing war with Iran.

O'Reilly was a bully as usual, interrupting nonstop with his preconceived version of the truth. There are many articles proving the other actions helped make the surge successful. Obama has explained it many times, but the media does not listen

How can anyone believe Palin is being picked on by the media when they will not even do their job at researching all facts in regard to Obama.

The media would rather talk about flag pins and whether someone is arrogant.

NOT OBAMA's SURGE PROBLEM...latest news.

Bob Woodward's book cites inside sources as saying other factor contiriuted 85% or more to reduction of troop violence. McCain wants to keep a complex problem simple...and it is not. And it is not about the "SURGE".

Sorry for copying your post BG, but I read this too and I'm glad that someone is putting it out there. Not that republicans care to read anything that doesn't support their position, but maybe there are a few open minded independents left on these boards.

maggie

Actually Obama is saying precisely what General Petraeus is saying;

"You will not find any military leader who will say this ... all we can say is Al Qaeda is still dangerous...There are many missions that have not been achieved ... Any person who replaces me and who is honest with himself must admit these facts," Petraeus said.

"What works in Mosul today, may not work in Tikrit today. In fact, it may not work in Mosul tomorrow".

That is far from saying the surge is a success.

NOT OBAMA's SURGE PROBLEM...latest news.

Bob Woodward's book cites inside sources as saying other factor contiriuted 85% or more to reduction of troop violence. McCain wants to keep a complex problem simple...and it is not. And it is not about the "SURGE".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/warwithin.html?hpid=topnews

If it were the Iraqi troops surge and if this surge were paid for by the Iraqi government then it would be a strategic success. So Obama is RIGHT -- while violence against American troops is successfully curtailed by the American troops surge, the Iraqi government remains impotent. So the bottom line is, the Iraqi national security problem again remains costly unresolved. I say, the American administration should stop babysitting the Iraqi government.

That's nothing -- Obama is for it WHILE he is against it. LOL

How well did the media vet Barack H Obama? Did they do the spade work digging into every aspect of OHB's life from birth until today? Did they investigate the political views of his mother and father and his white grandparent's who raised him (says something about his own mother and father's parenting skills)? Did they vet his school days in Indonesia, Hawaii and his time at Columbia with teams of on the spot investigators? What was his GPA at Columbia? Did they investigate fully his confession of being a druggie and when he stopped using drugs? The sound of silence is deafening.
All the concern voiced about Governor Sarah Palin's lack of experience is surely intended to mask Senator Barak H. Obama's executive experience which is a blank page unless his time as Chairman of the Chicago based Annenberg Project run actually by former Weather Underground leader and unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is included. Together Obama/Ayers are reported to have invested $100,000,000 in the Annenberg Project. What did they accomplsh? To date this period of his work experience has been written in invisible ink. And the BHO campaign is going to extreme efforts to insure that the records of this phase of his executive experience are buried and remain invisible.
What else is buried about BHO's past, besides Ayers,Wright, Rezco? Could it be the identity of "Frank' his mentor for a period of time in Hawaii?

The secrecy surrounding BHO's past belies his attempt tp portray himself as a 'new' and 'different' politician. And his speech filled with a litany of 'to dos' is the same old same old liberal/socialist agenda tax, tax, spend, spend on more and more government programs so the American people become dependent on the government for everything, the new USSA , United Socialist States of America.

The better voters get to know Obama, his background and his political know how, the more we know he is not fit to be president. Voters would not want his definition of change unless they are looking for a socialist handout. It's was not the intent of the Constitution or Bill of Rights. He is more supportive of irresponsible than self reliant people. He does not tell the truth.
McCain/Palen in November.

Patrick49

McCain was for drilling for oil before he was against it and McCain was for immigration reform before he was against it.

Obama is correct in what he is saying about the surge, unless, of course General Petraeus is wrong and Sarah Palin is correct.

Please educate yourself about the
Obama--ACORN connection.

Something else the MSM ignores.

On July 28th of this year, General Petraeus said about the surge:

"What works in Mosul today, may not work in Tikrit today. In fact, it may not work in Mosul tomorrow".

That is far from saying the surge is a success.

Unless, of course, Sarah Palin knows more than Petraeus does, that is.

I just can't see Obama as president up against a powerful leader like Putin.

Obama looks weak, unsure, and easily led even against O'Reilly.

He stutters, stammers, changes the subject and eventually is talked into going against his original stance.

Even on the stump he acts immature, silly, not very presidential.

God help us all...

The democrats have a lock on the Olympic year flip-flop competition. Kerry was the 2004 flip-flop gold medal winner and Obama apparently has a lock on the 2008 competition with"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,..." followed by his squirrelly effort to make it appear that the President didn't have faith in the surge and that other factors were responsible for the surge's success illustrate his meager grasp of military matters and a complete lack of reasoned judgment. A dangerous combination in a Commander-in-Chief.

Strange thing about Biden.
1. He twice slips and says he is running for President of the US.
2. He says if he had more hair he wouldn't be screwing around with the VP slot.
3. He goes on and on praising McCain with personal memoirs.

Who is Biden for anyway?????

Obama really blew it with this pick.
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Yes, I noticed that too especially the one where he said he was running for president. Obama should have picked Hillary. It is very clear now. Biden conducted that interview as though Obama did not exist. Apparently Obama did not want to be out done by Hillary. The problem is with Obama's lack of experience anyone would be stronger as a VP than he would be as a president.

Obama never should have been the DNC nominee. I am a Hillary supporter who is voting for McCain.

The Iraq War is bull!! We should have never been there. Folks it is all about OIL. SURGE??? Did it work?? Why did it work?? That verdict is still out. Iraq has surplus in their pockets, but still taking money from America who has worst debt in entire US history. Republicans don't want you to talk about facts why America even went. Why America's debt is largest ever!!! Republicans won't tell you about all the US questionable and secretive oil contracts. Pull out of troops is now questionable as Iraq and US government are playing more games.

I am shocked.

Obama looked like a kid in the principle's office on O'Reilly. Even his uh, uh, ums were what one would expect of a kid caught off guard by an authority figure. He's toast, plain and simple. He suffers from great overexposure and now he is finally receiving some of the scrutiny that is long overdue and he doesn't look good under a microscope. Couple that with an abysmal choice for VP who no one is even paying attention to anymore. Poor Joe couldn't even get himself arrested these days. The McCain team has knocked Obama totally off his game if he even had one to begin with. Ever since the "celebrity" ads came out, he has been off kilter and Palin has now pushed him over the edge. The American public is seeing that not only does the would be emporer have no clothes, they are seeing that his dangerous Marxist ideology would destroy this country as we know it. Stick a fork in him, Uh-bama is done.

Strange thing about Biden.
1. He twice slips and says he is running for President of the US.
2. He says if he had more hair he wouldn't be screwing around with the VP slot.
3. He goes on and on praising McCain with personal memoirs.

Who is Biden for anyway?????

Obama really blew it with this pick.