Posted by
Armanius on Friday, July 25, 2008 1:51:09 AM
I just don't get why the McCain campaign isn't exploiting this Texas sized hole in the reasoning of Obama's self proclaimed "right judgment" regarding troop withdrawal in Iraq. The Obama campaign and his surrogates are touting over and over again how Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and the Iraqi government want a timetable for American troop withdrawal, and how Maliki agrees with Obama's timetable. Hence, according to Obama's campaign, he has been right all along and "now" is the time to pull our troops out.
I am a fair guy, and I will say that if the Maliki-lead government of Iraq wants us to leave, we should leave. But does anyone in his or her right mind believe that Maliki would be saying this except for the fact that he believes that Iraq is stable enough for Iraqi troops to completely take over the security of Iraq? And what has brought about stability in Iraq? Some liberal extremists and Obama himself continue to deny that the surge was the key factor that lead to stability in Iraq. Fine, let them dispute the success of the surge. However, reasonable minds cannot dispute that had we followed Obama's Iraq policy of immediate withdrawal of American troops last year, the stability in Iraq today would not exist! Maliki certainly would not be talking in July 2008 about American troop withdrawal. So why is Obama being allowed to revel on having the "right judgment" to say that American troops can be withdrawn from Iraq in 16 months? The McCain campaign and his surrogates need to be out there pointing out the idiocy of Obama's patting himself on the back for having the "right judgment" about troop withdrawal timeline.
The McCain campaign also needs to be doing a whole lot better exposing what Obama said in 2004 about being against troop withdraw and "artificial" deadline:
The McCain campaign did put a great montage together regarding all the contradictions made by Obama regarding Iraq (which does include parts of Obama's 2004 interview noted above), but the message is just not getting out to the people:
So if you were John McCain, what would you do to help Americans see past the Obama PR machine?