Robert wrote: > I would consult with commanders on the ground > and the Iraqi government to ensure that our > troops were redeployed safely, and our interests > protected. > "After all, Mr. Obama was among those in January 2007 who stridently opposed the surge and confidently predicted its failure even going so far as to vote against funding our soldiers in the field unless the Bush administration abandoned this new approach. It is now clear that Mr. Obama's judgment on the surge was spectacularly wrong.
Yet rather than admit his mistake, Mr. Obama has instead tried to downplay or disparage the gains our troops have achieved in the past 12 months, clinging to a set of talking points that increasingly seem as divorced from reality as some in the Bush administration were at the darkest moments of the war." Read more: 'When Will Obama Go To Iraq?' Posted by John Hindraker: Powerline, June 5, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/4bz4dz
