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Iraq war critic Obama flies in to meet up with forces



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Published Date: 21 July 2008
US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Iraq today to meet with commanders and troops in a war he has long opposed.
Mr Obama is expected to meet General David Petraeus as well as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki while in the country, although aides provided few details, citing security concerns.

Mr Obama is in the country as part of a congressional delegation that also includes Senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel. All three are long-time critics of the US involvement in the war in Iraq.

They have already made stops in Kuwait and Afghanistan.

Mr Obama is anxious to bolster his foreign policy credentials and counter accusations from Republican presidential rival John McCain that he has not seen conditions in Iraq for himself.

He has pledged to withdraw US combat troops from Iraq within 16 months if he wins office, but would leave a residual force in the country to provide security.





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  • Last Updated: 21 July 2008 10:23 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Jay Kay,

21/07/2008 13:21:36
But he wants to sent them into Afghanistan???
2

I love to eat Sellotape,

21/07/2008 16:10:58
"Barack" sounds a little like "Barracks".
3

Gere,

Scotland 21/07/2008 17:16:26
Israel is unlikely to permit any American President to grant Iraq independence, end the occupation or withdraw American troops completely.
4

mike - across the pond,

gere.... 21/07/2008 22:00:58
"Israel is unlikely to permit any American President to grant Iraq independence, end the occupation or withdraw American troops completely."

you base this on the fact that Iraq had independence for 50+ years on its own prior to 2003?

or speculation that israel cannot defend itself from a country without a military?

or is that just so much anti-semetic gibberish you are spewing???
5

Carolyn 1,

22/07/2008 00:46:53
The surge has worked wonders, thanks to the judgement of the US Commander in Chief, George W. Bush and to General Petraeus who thought up the surge strategy.

Despite all the negative attacks from the media, and the democrats, including Obama, the surge is a success.

Proof that the strategy is a success is that when Obama finally arrived, he didn't even need to wear body armour.

Who had the courage to risk his political reputation and support the surge? McCain.

6

Lynne,

Palm Beach Gardens 22/07/2008 05:09:02
#5 Carolyn

Listening to Obama on Nightline..He still cannot admit he was wrong. He credits a "convergence" of the surge, the militias backing down, and the Sunni awakening to the insurgents and turning on them.

He is not capable of being Commander in Chief..His judgement is lacking. Most of the polls show Americans do not feel he can be Commander in Chief.
7

Conan,

Moffat 22/07/2008 07:39:22
Lynne, all of what you say may be correct ... but had the Republicans not screwed-up so badly, so often, and so persistently none of this would even be up for debate as the Republicans were handed an opportunity to shut the Democrats out of the US Federal and most and State Governments for the rest of your natural live, and then some. But, stupidity, greed, corruption, senseless wasted energy (such as the Scivo debacle) have left the Democrats in a far better place than they either they could have hoped, or deserved. Putting McCain up as the Republican and Republic's Saviour was the ultimate compounding of their well-honed idiocy. Barak WILL BE the next US President if the Fates allow, and there WILL BE a Democrat super-majority in the House and Senate - who will promptly appoint the next three or four Supreme Court seats and re-stock the federal bench with a well-selected bunch of Communists and other America-haters. See what happens when you forget to play to win?
8

billengland,

22/07/2008 12:17:17
MacCain, Obama, does it really matter?

They are both marionettes with the hijackers of the USA pulling the strings, and the occupation will continue.

Mission accomplished, next phase coming soon.

9

Lynne,

Palm Beach Gardens 22/07/2008 22:31:49
Conan...OBAMA WILL NOT BE the next President. He lacks all the experience necessary to be President.
He has done nothing, no name to legislation, and most of what he says he has done before he became legislator was done by other people. They took up the mantle and finished whatever project he thinks he started. People in Chicago, who he worked with can attest to everything from the removal of asbestos from a housing project, which was started before he came there, and finished by others to other projects he claims to have started.
10

Harry "Dingy" Reid,

Las Vegas 23/07/2008 10:54:34
Just wait until October/November when the love sick media will be forced to talk about the gay choir director that Barack Obama was having an affair with that was killed under mysterious circumstances prior to Obama announcing he was running for President.
11

American,

23/07/2008 19:24:07
#10-harry-where did you get that news??
12

American,

23/07/2008 19:38:27
#7-conan-You are correct about the republicans screwing up. But in all fairness, they do not get the fair press treatment as pelosi, reid, obama, clinton, etc... They lack the b@lls to confront the media for their misreportings and the pc police have gotten to them. They surely werent thinking when they decided mccain is the man as the republican presidential candidate. AND, I sure do hope you are wrong about obama for president, although he's convinced he's going to be president for all 57 states for the next 10 years.
13

Gere,

Scotland 24/07/2008 15:35:37
Post#4 mike-across the pond

I was merely stating the obvious fact that the American President irrespective of which party he or she represents has to obey the will of the Israeli Prime Minister.

All aspirant Presidential candidates had to appear in front of AIPAC and swear allegiance to Israel before they were even elected to office when they would be obliged to take the oath to defend America.

America's Israeli masters have to be appeased first!

I believe thah the aspirant candidates for the American Presidency would not have been able to proceed with their campaign had they not firstly prostrated themselves before the representatives of America's real rulers, AIPAC. This organisation oversees the interests of America's Jewish masters.

For further information on this issue, please see the research of Professors Mearsheimer and Walt on AIPAC.

They are two American Academics!

 

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