Time to face facts. Obama is worse than Bush. Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune asked Obama if he still thinks of Iraq as a dumb war. Obama said, “I think history will judge the original decision to go into Iraq. But what's absolutely clear is, as a consequence of the enormous sacrifices that have been made by American troops and civilians, as well as the courage of the Iraqi people, that what we have now achieved is an Iraq that is self-governing, that is inclusive, and that has enormous potential.” One-and-a-half-million Americans served in Iraq. More than 30,000 were wounded. Nearly 4,500 Americans were killed. After having clearly picked the wrong side, the losing side, Obama said, in one of history's richest ironies, “The most important lesson that we can take from you is not about military strategy. It’s a lesson about our national character. For all of the challenges that our nation faces, you remind us that there’s nothing we Americans can’t do when we stick together.” Democrats saying Americans should 'stick together' during foreign wars and pigs are flying past the 50th floor windows of the Observer Journal offices. Sticking Together in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008? Sticking together to help the Iraqi democrats or Bush? Not so much? Could Obama be any more ironic? Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani was asked by the BBC [VIDEO below] was the Iraq war worth it and al-Shahristani answered, "When someone from the West asks, a normal Iraqi's first reaction is always, 'No, the cost has been very high'; but, when he calms down and remembers the days of Saddam; the average Iraqi will say any price that we had to pay to get rid of Saddam was worth it." Malik Abed, 44, a vendor at a Baghdad fish market said, "Thanks to the Americans. They took us away from Saddam Hussein, I have to say that." Nine years ago speaking to less than 700 people gathered in Chicago’s Federal Plaza at the intersection of Dearborn and Adams, Obama called the Iraqi democrat's struggle for freedom dumb. At Fort Bragg, N.C. Obama was cheered by soldiers and covered live by the news networks. Obama proclaimed “this moment of success” – the end of the Iraq war. What a fraud. When speaking to the far-Left Obama said over and over, “On the most important national security question since the Cold War. I am the only candidate who opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war.” What a bigot; basically, calling support for the Iraqi democrats and; therefore, all Iraqi democrats dumb. The Left abdicated their historic tendencies and responsibilities to promote democracy, failing to support the Iraqi democrats when the chips were down. American progressives still think the Iraqi democrats are inherently incapable and must be abandoned. Progressives bombing Libya destroyed the Left's argument that 'peaceful movements' play the central role in bringing about democratic change. Progressive bombs away over Libya, no problem. Iraq and Libya have proven Obama and all progressives fraudulent. American progressives still refuse to give any weight to the Iraqi democrat's central argument that one death, Saddam's death, made the Iraq war worth it. Drenched in hypocrisy, Obama welcomed home from Iraq the last American troops saying verbatim, “As your commander in chief, I can tell you that it will, indeed, be part of history. Those last American troops will move south on desert sands. And then they will cross the border out of Iraq with their heads held high. One of the most extraordinary chapters in the history of the American military will come to an end. Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. America’s war in Iraq will be over.” Translation from Liberal into English, Obama claimed victory. On the plus side, Obama avoided Bush's moronic “Mission Accomplished” banner.
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