John wrote: > Eight long painful years of the Clinton nightmare > of relative peace and record prosperity are totally > unacceptable: > "On the most important issue he has confronted as a legislator, the surge of forces in Iraq, Senator Obama was a harsh critic.
His opposition to President Bush's new strategy was wrong. Much worse is the fact that Obama continued to oppose the surge at every stage, even after it was obviously succeeding. To this day, even as he finally concedes the surge has "succeeded beyond our wildest imagination," Obama insists his opposition to the surge was correct. Senator Obama's view is that a defeat in Iraq would somehow help our efforts in Afghanistan. Indeed, if Obama had had his way, all American combat troops would have been withdrawn from Iraq by March 2008, which would have led to civil war and genocide; an unprecedented victory for al-Qaeda and Islamic jihadists; and a boon to Iran. This fact is, by itself, a shattering indictment to Obama's judgement, and in the area that is the most important responsibility of a president: his duties as commander-in-chief." Read more: 'Viewpoint: The case against Obama' by Peter Wehner BBC News, October 31, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7700913.stm
