Hillary and Barack back peddling on Iraq
By reformedhippie. Filed in 2008 Elections, Iraq, Military |Tags: barak obama, ending the war, hillary clinton, Iraq
Has anybody wondered why both Obama and Clinton have not put forth a plan to deal with the vacuum that will probably exist when they pull our troops out of Iraq by the end of 2009? The answer back then, as now, is obvious. They knew they could not do it. Even while blustering about pulling the troops out and arguing who was against the war first before they were for it amounted to nothing but spitting in the wind. They knew all along that it could not be done. Irreparable harm would come to the United States and Iraq if they did what they are saying.
So what do they do now? Start back peddling.. the N.Y. Times earlier this month had this to say:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a “remaining military as well as political mission” in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.
And now Obama is finding some rock to crawl under:
A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement,” Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government “the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000–80,000 forces) by the end of 2010 (although the specific timelines should be the byproduct of negotiations and conditions on the ground).”
Mr. Kahl is the day-to-day coordinator of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq. A shorter and less detailed version of this paper appeared on the center’s Web site as a policy brief.
Now what do their left wing liberal war-hating buddies think about that? Looks to me like they were deceived. And their buddies swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Political candidates that lie and deceive their way through the political process for expediency should run out of town on a rail.
Neither of these candidates have a clue what is going on in the real world. Their understanding of foreign policy is severely lacking. And they want to be your next President. What a joke!
They are acting just as recklessly trying to get out of the war as Bush was going into the war.
