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Video Script:
Obama: My assessment is that the surge has not worked.
Obama: I would end this war, and I would have our troops out within 16 months.
Obama: I will immediately begin to remove our troops.
Murtha: I think the surge is working.
Lieberman: The surge is working.
Clinton: We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar Province, it's working.
Gibbs: The security situation has improved, much as everybody admitted it would if we put more troops on the ground.
Axelrod: I mean, he never disputed the fact that if you throw a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can make a difference.
Obama: I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is gonna solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.
Reporter: You did not refer to the 16 month timetable. Does that mean you can tell us today that you will not change the 16 month timetable?
Obama: (smiles and breathes) Uh... I... (scratches head)

Hat's off to CBS News and Katie Couric for their segment on the Iraq surge on CBS Evening News. Katie interviewed both Barack Obama and John McCain on the Successful surge in Iraq.
You be the judge...

Barack Obama is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. The Democrats are so committed to a defeat in Iraq that when we start winning they have no idea what to do. They contemplate; should we support the war now, or should we still advocate pulling out and disgracing our country, our brave troops, and the credibility of this great country. They have put themselves in a difficult position.

Barack Obama is trying to walk right down the middle of the road. And we all know what happens when you walk down the middle of the road, you get hit from both sides. Maybe Obama should throw himself under the bus, you never know, it might work, for after all, he is the Great Obama.

Here's the genius Obama at work on the Senate floor on 1/30/07; "That is why today I am introducing the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation; more importantly, it would begin a phased redeployment of United States forces with the goal of removing all United States combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008, consistent with the expectations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that the President has so assiduously ignored".

So if the Great Obama would have had his way, we would have already suffered a humiliating defeat in Iraq, Al-Qaeda would have terrorist training camps there, where they would still be celebrating to this day.




McCain Camp Mocks Obama for 'Refining' Iraq Position on Web Site
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

John McCain's campaign criticized Barack Obama Tuesday for "refining" his Iraq position on his campaign Web site, as McCain said his general election rival is "directly contradicting" himself on the war.

The New York Daily News first reported that the Obama campaign stripped a line on his site that said the troop surge "is not working."

The Web page now describes an "improved security situation" in Iraq, and no longer lists the subhead, "The Surge," as part of a section titled, "The Problem."

That subhead has been renamed, "Inadequate Security and Political Progress in Iraq."

Like the old entry, the site still states that hundreds of Americans have died since the implementation of the surge and that the Iraqi government has made negligible political progress.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told FOX News it was a standard update to reflect new circumstances in Iraq, in advance of the major policy speech the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee gave in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

He said McCain's campaign has also changed its Web entry on economic matters like the Alternative Minimum Tax, and that it would be foolish for the Obama campaign not to update its own site. He said the update does not diminish Obama's belief that the surge is a tactical maneuver within the context of a massive strategic blunder.

Obama made that point in his speech Tuesday, saying that while the troop surge led to reduced violence, it has cost billions and allowed Al Qaeda to fester in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

But McCain said at a town hall meeting that Obama is reversing to tout the merits of the surge he once opposed.

"Flip-floppers all over the world are enraged," McCain said, without mentioning his own Web site alterations, or Obama's. "It is pretty clear that Senator Obama is ... directly contradicting the statements that he made concerning the surge and the war in Iraq for a long period of time. And today we know Senator Obama was wrong. The surge has succeeded."

McCain's campaign also accused Obama of "refining" his withdrawal position by taking out a line on his Web site that said Obama "will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq."

The Web site now says, "Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his secretary of defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government."

The site still says that he wants to remove all brigades by the summer of 2010 — a plan he restated during his address Tuesday.

"Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months," his Web site says.