Obama Too Scared to Visit Troops in Baghdad
Posted on May 27, 2008
McCain challenged Obama to accompany him on a visit to Baghdad in a joint visit for true evaluation on the progress we are making there, but Obama is too scared he will see something outside the lines of his pre-conceived notions of failure. He obviously doesn’t want to find a reason not to surrender.
John McCain’s proposal is nothing more than a political stunt, and we don’t need any more ‘Mission Accomplished’ banners or walks through Baghdad markets to know that Iraq’s leaders have not made the political progress that was the stated purpose of the surge. The American people don’t want any more false promises of progress, they deserve a real debate about a war that has overstretched our military, and cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars without making us safer.
Curt at Flopping Aces calls Obama out on his B.S. rhetoric of uniting both parties when he can’t even arrange to meet the troops with his Republican contender. No doubt the Maverick painted Obama into a corner on this one, and Obama decided the least damage would be done by appeasing to his anti-war base and remaining in his ignorant bliss of surrender. The left are trying to spin it as some kind of genius move, but its a predictable, typically pathetic weasel move we have come to expect from the coward.
If they’re worried about the military giving them a dog-and-pony show, the answer isn’t to decline the trip but to counterpropose a more comprehensive trip than even McCain’s suggesting and turn it into a real fact-finding mission. Don’t spend two hours looking at charts with Petraeus. Take four or five days; go to Basra and Mosul. If they simply can’t suspend campaigning for that long, send a joint team of advisors from both sides. He won’t do it because he’s afraid of what he might hear, which goes back to a point I’ve been making ever since the Jamil Hussein saga: The left would have you believe Iraq hawks can’t admit that any aspect of the war might be going badly, but the opposite has always been more nearly true.
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I’m surprised McCain didn’t suggest that Obama accompany him to Vietnam, too. After all, McCain’s still trying to sell us that unjust war, even though the most notable thing did over there was get caught — hardly an act of heroism when compared to the really valid war-time heroics of Audie Murphy and Alvin York, neither of whom tried to make political hay from serving their country.
Sterling Greenwood
Aspen Free Press
Communist ideology called for the destruction of the US and our way of life. Keep in mind that the Democrats were the ones that committed combat troops to Viet Nam not the Republicans. It was a liberal idea at the time.
While I think it would be good for Obama to visit Iraq, I think a visit with McCain would be a travesty.
MCCain is just a baby-bush, and we remember how well the last awful political stunt Bush pulled went.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/
Maybe you are right Amber. Sadly, Obama is too scared to put together his own trip on his own terms.
Check again. Eisenhower, who campaigned on the promise to make peace in Korea (which he did) and whom I admired greatly, committed the first U.S. troops to Vietnam. If memory serves there were 5,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam when Kennedy took office. But Johnson, a liberal, escalated troop levels to nearly half a million; and his Texas friends which manufactured weapons, the Brown brothers ie Brown & Root, now Kellogg Brown & Root owned by Haliburton at the time of Shock and Awe, got rich. There’s no doubt Dems have taken us into a few wars. Wilson, WWI, Roosevelt WW2, Truman, Korea to name a few. Dems were linked with wars to the extent that Republicans campaigned against Kennedy in ‘60 saying his election would be tantamount to taking us into a war somewhere in hopes of stimulating the economy. Well, Johnson fulfilled that GOP prophecy.
Sterling Greenwood
Aspen Free Press
…committed the first U.S. troops to Vietnam. If memory serves there were 5,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam when Kennedy took office.
Are you sure that you aren’t conflating “U.S. troops” with ‘U.S. Military Advisors’?
Yes, they were called “military advisors,” early on. I had forgot that.
Thank you for the clarification.
Sterling Greenwood