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Title: Obama "puzzled" by Iraq comment frenzy
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN03103120080705
Published: Jul 5, 2008
Author: John Whitesides
Post Date: 2008-07-05 18:19:03 by angle
Keywords: None
Views: 144
Comments: 5

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.

"For me to say that I'm going to refine my policies I don't think in any way is inconsistent with prior statements and doesn't change my strategic view that this war has to end and that I'm going to end it as president," Obama told reporters on his campaign plane.

Obama, who based his drive to capture the Democratic nomination on his early and ardent opposition to the war, said on Wednesday he might alter his plan to bring combat troops home within 16 months of taking office if conditions on the ground changed.

The comment drew heavy coverage and sharp criticism from some on the left and the right, with Republicans saying it showed he was vacillating on Iraq.

"I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set off with what I thought was a pretty innocuous statement," he said on a flight from Montana to St. Louis. "I am absolutely committed to ending the war. I will call my joint chiefs of staff in and give them a new assignment and that is to end the war."

Obama will face Republican John McCain, a staunch advocate of the war, in a November presidential race that is certain to focus heavily on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Obama said he did not make a mistake on Wednesday with his choice of words in describing his Iraq position -- even though he called a second news conference a few hours after his initial comments to clarify his stance.

He laid the blame with reporters.

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#1. To: angle (#0)

Dial 1 800 Tel Aviv for further information.

Lod  posted on  2008-07-05   18:24:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: angle, lodwick (#0)

Obama said he did not make a mistake on Wednesday with his choice of words in describing his Iraq position -- even though he called a second news conference a few hours after his initial comments to clarify his stance.

He laid the blame with reporters.

Yeah, rigggggght. It's the reporters not Obama.

See the counterpunch article I posted today on the same subject of Obama's shape shifting platform.

Let's all keep in mind how Obama performed in the Dem debates - he didn't - he said very little of substance (and therefore avoided making any gaffes) because he didn't know what to say.

Obama is lucky he had John Edwards doing all the heavy intellectual lifting re: challenging Queen Hillary every step of the way. Obama acted like he was a bystander watching the other 2 slug it out on the issues.

www.counterpunch.org/fantina07062008.html

"Obama, Iraq and Change: What Can We Believe In?"

"... But might we be seeing a pattern? Mr. Obama has switched gears at a rather frightening speed on such important issues as immunity for telecommunications companies that violated the law with illegal wiretapping. Incredibly, he somehow found something praiseworthy in the recent Supreme Court decision overruling the right of Washington, D.C., where crime is rampant, to ban handguns. And now he appears to be backing away from his pledge to bring U.S. troops in Iraq home sooner rather than later; sooner seems to be slowly morphing into later. What will be next? Will he begin to see the advantage of the Bush tax cuts that benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else?

... Perhaps the ‘change we can believe in’ was all an illusion, something sufficient to tip the scales from the first viable female candidate for president to the first viable African-American candidate for president. Now that his nomination is secured, Mr. Obama can focus his attention on saying and doing the good corporate thing, rather than the good moral thing; any intersecting of the two is purely coincidental.

The coming months will show which it is going to be: a contest between real change and the current, deadly stagnation, or another ‘Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee’ election..."

scrapper2  posted on  2008-07-05   18:44:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: scrapper2 (#2)

I'll still vote Ron Paul and feel good about it.

Lod  posted on  2008-07-05   19:13:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: angle (#0)

Obama, who based his drive to capture the Democratic nomination on his early and ardent opposition to the war

That was then.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-07-06   21:52:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: lodwick (#3)

I'll still vote Ron Paul and feel good about it.

That makes two votes. We have a long way to go.

Cynicom  posted on  2008-07-06   21:57:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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