Hussein Suddenly Removes All Criticism Of The Surge From His Website
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama’s aides have removed criticism of President Bush’s increase of troops to Iraq from the campaign Web site, part of an effort to update the Democrat’s written war plan to reflect changing conditions.
Debate over the impact of President Bush’s troop “surge” has been at the center of exchanges this week between Obama and Republican presidential rival John McCain. Obama opposed the war and the surge from the start, while McCain supported both the invasion and the troop increase.
A year and a half after Bush announced he was sending reinforcements to Iraq, it is widely credited with reducing violence there. With most Americans ready to end the war, McCain is using the surge debate to argue he has better judgment and the troops should stay to win the fight. Obama argues the troop increase has not achieved its other goal of fostering a political reconciliation among Iraqi factions.
After Bush delivered a nationally televised address on Jan. 10, 2007, announcing his plan, Obama argued it could make the situation worse by taking pressure off Iraqis to find a political solution to the fighting.
“I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,” the Illinois senator said that night, a month before announcing his presidential bid. “In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
Obama continued to argue throughout 2007 that the troop increase was a mistake. By the early part of this year, he was acknowledging that it had improved security and reduced violence, but he has stuck by his opposition to the move.
In a speech Tuesday, he argued that since the surge began, the strain on the military has increased, the United States has spent another $200 billion in Iraq, Afghanistan has deteriorated, the Taliban and al-Qaida have rebuilt and Iraqis have not made political progress. “That’s why I strongly stand by my plan to end this war,” Obama said.
McCain said Obama is failing to acknowledge success. “Today, we know Sen. Obama was wrong” to oppose the surge, McCain said.
As first reported Tuesday by the New York Daily News, Obama’s campaign removed a reference to the surge as part of “The Problem” section on the part of his Web site devoted to laying out his plan for Iraq.
The change was part of many broader changes that Obama spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said were made to reflect current conditions. She provided the full text of the old site and the updated version, which includes a new section on the recent resurgence of al-Qaida in Afghanistan and another on this year’s negotiations over a Status of Forces Agreement that would detail the legal basis for the ongoing presence of U.S. military forces operating in Iraq.
The changes stress that Obama’s plan to end the war is responsible and designed to improve national security. They include:
—An updated Obama quote at the top of the page. The previous quote stressed how Obama had the judgment to oppose the “rash war” from the start. This was a popular message among Democratic voters and was meant to draw distinctions with primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, who initially supported the war. The new quote focuses on how ending the war will make Americans safer—a message aimed at general election voters who are more likely to trust McCain on issues of national security, according to polling.
—A description of Obama’s plan as “a responsible, phased withdrawal” that will be directed by military commanders and done in consultation with the Iraqis. Previously, the site had a sentence that has since been removed that flatly said, “Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq.” Morigi said that his plan hasn’t changed, but they wanted to expand the description. “There’s not an intent to shift language,” she said.
—A new sentence that says Obama “would reserve the right to intervene militarily, with our international partners, to suppress potential genocidal violence within Iraq.”
Only one of his plan’s subheads remains unchanged, the first one—”Judgment You Can Trust.” That’s a message the campaign wants Americans to embrace.
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[[“I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,” the Illinois senator said that night, a month before announcing his presidential bid. “In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”]]
In other words, “As you can see, In totally unfit to be CinC during war time”.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI guess now that his website doesn’t reference any of his BS about the surge, it no longer exists. Therefore he is free to go in whatever direction the polls point him to.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:50 pmRight…. if you’re having trouble getting acceptance for your revision of history, delete it.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pmSam Felsen, that Communist running his wesite would make Stalin proud.
The surge worked. There is no more violence in Iraq. No more suicide bombings targeting polic/nat’l guard. Everything is just fucking peachy!
July 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pmThis is more than censoring his own material and that of his devoted followers, expect the fairness doctrine to be reinstated if ever elected and an army of media protectors to defend his name around the clock (already happening).
The narcissistic fool will be building statues to himself in the first term, heck he loves himself so much it wouldn’t surprise me if he takes Abe’s seat at the Lincoln memorial.
This is what megalomaniac leaders do, they cover up the old and existing and replace the social and cultural landscape with their new manifesto.
They’ll be renaming cities, parks, libraries, hospitals, schools, airports, natural wonders, public holidays, national anthems, on an on, he is so arrogant that he probably has plans to replace Washington on the dollar bill. He’s already displayed a wily arrogance for the Presidential seal.
Sounds absurd I know, but then what isn’t nonsensical about Barrack Barry Hussein Obama’s methods? Don’t be surprised by men of Obama’s brazen nature and meteoric rise. Erasing contradictory material from the charlatan’s own website is just the beginning.. voters beware.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pmAlready Oblabla has revised his official history more than Big Brother in 1984. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for NewSpeak, in which word morph their meanings to suit the official line of the moment — with full expectation that the faithful will forget they ever meant anything else!
July 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pmWill the real Obama, please stand up? His idea of “change” just keeps on changing. He cannot be trusted, the American public has no idea which Obama would run the country … the pretender that panders to the center or the Marxist that agrees with all the other leftist, communists and Marxists.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pmObambis a fucking national disgrace
July 15th, 2008 at 7:03 pmIn a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, “one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.”
- Mark Twain.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:35 pmThe Soviet communists erased photos of non-persons. The Iranian monkey piglets photo shop missle launches. What is real?
http://tmq2.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/b-hussein-the-movie/
July 15th, 2008 at 7:52 pmOMFG he pisses me off!!!!!
He should just admit he’s running for Bush’s third term already. Like it’s such a bad thing anyway, to continue the successes of this Administration.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:38 amwhat are you talking about? I heard that BHO supported the surge from the start. And Al Gore invented the internet! And Free Willy really did make it out of his seaside prison only to be beached and poked by little children with sticks. Leprechauns do in-fact exist and pigs fukn fly because hell froze over
July 16th, 2008 at 4:34 am