7-23-08

Grim at BlackFive: “One could say that this was an act of principle on Sen. Obama’s part:  that he simply rejects the Iraq war, and has always wanted to get us out of it at any cost.  However, that’s just not true.  As Richard Fernandez points out, in 2005 Sen. Obama strongly rejected troop withdrawals –  at a period precisely coinciding with an Iraqi land deal in which Tony Rezko, a longtime donor currently in prison on Federal corruption charges, had an interest.”

Uncle Jimbo at BlackFive: Steve Schippert of ThreatsWatch is a pretty level-headed guy so when he drops the hammer about the Obama’s reckless claims about events in Iraq you know a line has been crossed. He points out the deceit, and perfidy in Barry O’s shameless posturing. Vote Maverick.

Joe Klein on McCain’s Meltdown: “The reality is that neither Barack Obama nor Nouri al-Maliki nor most anybody else believes that the Iraq war can be “lost” at this point. The reality is that no matter who is elected President, we are looking at a residual U.S. force of 30-50,000 by 2011 (a year ahead of the previous schedule).”

Ann Althouse on Klein’s Meltdown: The point is that Obama’s judgment would have led this country to jump headlong into defeat. We now must decide if we want this man making choices about things that will arise in the future. Why is it necessary to spell it out again and again that we need to use past judgments to predict future judgments about new matters? I feel like an annoying pedant saying this again. But the reason it’s necessary is that journalists like Klein are covering for Obama.

John McCormack: As Frederick Kagan wrote in September 2007: “Anbari tribal leaders did begin to turn against AQI in their areas last year before the surge began, but not before Colonel Sean MacFarland began to apply in Ramadi the tactics and techniques that are the basis of the current strategy in Baghdad.”

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