If you can stop laughing, review obama’s timeline with respect to the war while you listen to him crowing like a morning rooster in announcing the end to combat operations on the most receptive news organizations that any President had the pleasure of facing.
2004: obama surprisingly elected US Senator from Illinois.
A vocal critic of the Iraq war while safe at home in Illinois, once in Washington the “level of his criticism lowered.”
His first year in Senate he gives only 1 speech on the war in Iraq and calls for a phased withdrawal of US troops by the end of 2006 (his first line-in-the –sand target for troops returning from Iraq.).
November 2006: obama redraws his line-in-the-sand (his 2nd), calling for a drawdown of US troops from Iraq beginning in March/May 2007.
January 2007: obama feels Bush’s “surge” in troops to Iraq is not going to work.
He introduces legislation into the US Senate that would force a redeployment of troops in Iraq and cap the level of those troops in Iraq at the pre-surge levels.
His bill says that troops must be brought home by spring of 2008 (obama’s 3rd line- in- the- sand in the context of the Iraq war).
Legal scholars question the constitutionality of this bill since the president has control of military forces.
obama rejects that notion noting that he knows he’s right because he taught constitutional law for 10 years.
February 2007: Democrats were defeated in their attempt to pass a resolution sharply rebuking President Bush’s “Iraq Surge” plans.
obama and Ted “burp” Kennedy supported the resolution.
September 2007: President Bush announces almost 6,000 troops will return home by end of 2007.
Little Harry Reid attacks Bush’s announcement saying that this merely brings troop levels in Iraq down to pre-surge levels.
Something that Reid’s fellow Democrat obama tried to get passed in his January bill, only Bush was doing it sooner.
September 2008: Bush says 8,000 troops will return home from Iraq in February 2009. He said more forces would be brought home in the first half of 2009 if conditions improve in Iraq.
Similar words to obama’s “conditions on the ground.”
Bush’s plan follows recommendations from Robert Gates, Mike Mullen, and General Patraeus…all three now working for obama.
obama, at this time hot on the campaign trail, promises to withdraw combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, which would draw the next line- in- the- sand (his 4th target date) at January 2010, a line 2 years after the 2008 date he called for redeployment in his January 2007 legislation.
obama, while on the campaign trail in Ohio, also criticizes Bush’s troop redeployment numbers (8,000) as “coming up short.”.
Yet obama’s 2007 failed legislation would have retained similar pre-surge numbers in Iraq.
The situation on the ground in Iraq seemed to depend on whether one was campaigning for President.
December 2008: Bush and Iraqis agree on US-Iraqi security agreement.
This replaces a UN mandate for US occupation and calls for the removal of all troops in Iraq by the end of 2011 ( a little over a year from obama’s announcement today).
Bush’s agreement calls for American troops to leave Baghdad and other Iraqi cities by June 2009.
Other troops will remain and serve as “training and mentoring teams.”
Similar to what obama announces today.
February 2009: Hijacking the Bush-Iraqi agreement, obama publicly announces a draw down in troops in Iraq and that “tens of thousands of US personnel will remain” in Iraq until 2011.
August 2010: Hijacking the successful Bush administration plan to end the Iraq War, obama announces the end is near with todays’ press-receptive announcement.
I feel real secure with the level of steadfastness obama has shown over the situation in Iraq the last 6 years.
This is similar to the line-in-the-sand that he keeps drawing with respect to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and now we learn, thanks to the the WikiLeak documents, that Iran has been smuggling weapons into Afghanistan.
obama’s coddling of Pakistan hasn’t been any more reassuring.
Supposedly obama and his administration have known of Pakistan’s stabbing our troops in the back yet obama and Hillary keep announcing billions of dollars in aid going to Pakistan.
obama may have been great at registering dead people to vote, but at being a leader….even Ted Kennedy would want to drive over a bridge – oops, he already did that once.
Where I got this stuff:....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16896534/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-02-06-iraq-resoluti on_x.htm
Thursday, September 13, 2007 FOX NEWS
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/bush-set-to-bring-8000-american-tro ops-home-from/85389/
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0848420220080909
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26612311/
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/14/bush-iraq.html
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=134300
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/us/politics/12campaign.html?pa gewanted=print
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