Obama on July 4th

Jeff Zeleny, NY Times:

As he finished a weeklong tour of states that have voted Republican in recent presidential races, Senator Barack Obama said on Friday that the nation had “hit a crossroads and we’ve got to make a fast turn,” urging voters at an Independence Day celebration to support his candidacy if they wanted to end the war in Iraq.

One day after Mr. Obama said he would consider refining his plan to remove troops from Iraq within 16 months, he offered no timetable for withdrawal as he criticized the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, which he said “has not made us more safe and has fanned anti-American sentiment all around the world.”

“It’s a war we need to bring to an end,” he added, speaking over applause from a crowd of about 1,000 at a picnic outside the World Museum of Mining.

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My friends, as McCain likes to say, the turn that Obama wants to make at this cross roads is a hard left one in the face of on coming traffic. He continues to make the false assertion that he can win the war with a retreat. There is not record in history of retreating to victory. We are fighting a nihilistic enemy who will not stop fighting us just because we retreat from one theater where we have been winning. It is just not an intelligent response to the situation in Iraq and the war in general.

He also repeats the false assertion that the war has not made us safer and that it has made us unpopular. You don't go to war to be popular, but the war in Iraq has been a strategic defeat for our enemies because it has made them less popular than at anytime in history. It has weakened our enemies in al Qaeda and Iran. What Obama proposes is a gift to both that they have not earned.

BTW, check out the wary look of the soldier Obama is shaking hands with in this photo. He has reason to be wary of Obama's military policies and strategy.

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