Is It Time to Leave Iraq?
By Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Producer
Posted March 20, 2008 – The presidential candidates wanting to relieve President Bush as Commander and Chief all used the fifth anniversary marking the start of the war in Iraq to make their case for why they should become the next president.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaking to military families gathered in Fayetteville, North Carolina, not far from Fort Bragg military base, suggested to them that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) couldn’t be trusted to end the Iraq war because of her timing in voicing her opposition.
”Ask yourself,” Obama told the crowd, “Who do you trust to end a war: someone who opposed the war from the beginning, or someone who started opposing it when they started preparing a run for president?”
Obama reminded folks, he opposed the invasion as a state lawmaker, and his judgment was on point when he opposed the war while a Illinois state senator.
As small and relativity orderly war protesters marched outside to of the White House, President Bush spoke about the Iraq war to an audience of military and defense officials at the Pentagon.
His message remained the same and unwavering. The president maintained the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003 was the right move and has resulted in making the United States and the world safer.
“Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it,” he said. “The answers are clear to me. Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision, and this is a fight that America can and must win,” Bush insisted.”
Sen. John Mr. McCain (R-Ariz), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee agrees with Bush. McCain is visiting Iraq this week and released a statement supporting the same rationale, the United States and its allies in Iraq stand “on the precipice of winning a major victory against radical Islamic extremism.”
But at a press conference in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday, McCain said he was concerned about Iranians “taking al-Qa’eda into Iran, training them and sending them back”.
Reporters not clear on his statement challenged his answer and he responded: “Well, it’s common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qa’eda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran. That’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.”
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent, who is accompanying him on the trip, whispered in his ear, and McCain said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qa’eda.”
The foreign policy gaff brought reactions from his Democratic rival, Obama. “We heard Senator McCain confuse Sunni and Shi’ite, Iran and al-Qa’eda,” he noted. “Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America’s enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades.”
McCain is able to travel and hold policy pow-wow’s while the Dems battle it out for the nomination. This wasn’t his finest moment abroad, but the Dems won’t get a shot at any international travel as long as the nomination is still up for grabs.
Earlier this week Clinton delivered a speech on the war in Iraq. She renewed her pledge to begin bringing troops home within 60 days of becoming president.
This was Bush’s last anniversary speech on the war in Iraq, if things remain the same, the next anniversary speech will be delivered by Clinton, Obama or McCain.
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“”Obama reminded folks, he opposed the invasion as a state lawmaker, and his judgment was on point when he opposed the war while a Illinois state senator”…………………………………..
Since Obama was not in the Senate to officially vote for or against the Iraq war, then when and to who did he oppose the war? He tends to gather credit for opposing the war instead of voting. Anyone could have opposed it, so his statement that he ALWAYS opposed the war is somewhat bogus….HILLARY 08!
For sure its time to leave a war we should have never been involved in the first place.
We were lied to as the real reason we are over there. Bush is bedfellows to Ben and the truth will all come out after Bush is out of the white house.
We need to learn to read and resource some of the information that is available to us.
Please resource the web-site THE LIES AMERICAN HAS TOLD. It is much interesting
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WHAT WAR?…IT”S NOT A WAR….IT”S A ROBBERY!!! GEORGE SENIOR STILL WORKS FOR THE BENLADEN FAMILY..AND SO DOES JUNIOR!! THE STOCK HOLDERS OF HALBURTON WILL BE BILLIONARES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME BEHIND THEIR PROFITS FROM THIS SO-CALLED WAR…BUSH ALSO LIED ABOUT HIS TIME IN THE SERVICE. ANY VETERAN KNOWS THAT IF HE HAD REPORTED FOR DUTY…HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO TURN IN HIS PAY RECORD….SO WHERE IS IT? ANYTIME YOU REPORT TO A NEW BASE YOU HAND CARRY YOUR OWN PAY RECORDS WITH YOU AND TURN THEM IN WHEN YOU REPORT!!! BUSH AND HIS PARDNERS NEED TO BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES AT THE HAIGE!!!!
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Its long been time to leave Iraq and i look forward to the implementation of bringing our troops home by President Barack Obama. Barack Obama US President 2008.
Here is the latest from Cheney,last week he was asked about the war dead and he said “so”. Today the same line of question came up and his answer is “they volunteered” The man has no heart,not too mention spine because he got five draft deferments when he was supposed too go to Viet-nam.The bootom line is this: if you don’t accept the “rational”(five different reasons), oryou don’t own stock in Haliburton then you must be the enemy.
That gaff on the war by mccain shows he just another bush warmed over. He brings the same old chit as the current bum in the white house and is just as stupid. We need change and not the same do do for another four years. So hopefully either hillary, obama will be voted in the white house and those current bums be kicked to the street, period!
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