Obama plans Iraq trip

"Barack Obama’s fundamental misunderstanding of the success in Iraq is not what America needs in a Commander in Chief.”

Guess what? McSame's fundamental misunderstanding of Middle East history of the area we now call Iraq is one of the reasons his judgement was totally wrong in voting to let Curious George go to Iraq. If McSame and the other idiots who originally supported the Iraq War had followed Barak Obama's advice, every single American son and daughter who've lost their lives in that godforsaken "country" that Winston Chuchill created on a whim in the 1920's would still be alive today.

And on the subject of the so-called "surge," the dictionary defines a surge as "a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep." In other words, while it starts quickly, it also ends quickly. Call it what it REALLY is, an ESCALATION. The "surge" was supposed to be over by the end of 2006. A year and a half later troop numbers in Iraq are still ten thousand above pre-"surge" levels.

Not to mention Obama was wrong to oppose the war in the first place. We needed this war badly and it has furthered American interests in every conceivable way. Think how much worse off we would be if everyone had voted with Obama back then! We'd have have a half -triliion bucks we'd have to spend, and over four thousand living American soldiers burdening our military.

Why would he go? He has promised to completely abandon Iraq as soon as he
is elected, so what's the point of going?

In the meantime our current President is now able to bring home 30,000 troops next month because of the progress being made there that the press is even, finally, having to report. Our soldiers are winning this war in spite of the opposition from the Democrats, the press, and the enemy.

I can't imagine that Americans would elect such a lazy self-promoter like Obambi.

He has been in Congress for four years and he has been too lazy to hold one sub-committee hearing about Europe and our NATO allies carrying their weight in Afghanistan. Instead he wants to pull our troops from a winning situation in Iraq to now carry the load for the Europeans in Afghanistan.

The Canadian Prime Minister told Europe if they did not commit troops Canada would pull its troops from Afghan. Obambi instead says, don't worry Europe our GIs will take care of the problem for you. And this guy cares about our kids?

THen on Iraq, Obambi is so lazy and so much more interested in theadulation of his fans to take the time since 2006 to visit Iraq or Afghanistan or even give them the courtesy of meeting with them.

What a loser. But just as Obambi was wildly wrong on Iraq, he is also wrong on the economy.

This situation is going to put Obama in a heck of a fix. If he goes, he'll see, and have to admit, that the situation has improved greatly, and that a rapid pullout would be a mistake. He'll see that his current position is untenable. This will tick off the Obamaniacs, like those here, greatly.

But if he doesn't go soon, he'll look like the ill-informed leader he's always accusing Bush et al of being. He'll also be suggesting to a lot of voters that he's not ready to be commander in chief.

We understand the situation perfectly:

The primary effect of the surge has been to reinforce the partition of Iraq-Kurds to the north, Sunnis to the west, Shia to the east. The next President will have a tiger by the ears thanks to the failures of the Bush-Cheney regime.

The only aspect of the situation that McCain understands is the need to keep our troops in harm's way for another hundred years if he wishes to maintain the status quo. Time to leave these unfortunate people to take advantage of the democratic utopia created by 7 years of blunders.

Gary is right. Is there any chance that after Obama visited Iraq that he would change his position? He's running on withdrawal from Iraq and if he retracts from that position, his supporters would be irate. He might as well withdraw from the presidential race!

The truth is: Obama is going to Iraq to take some photos. Then he can run some ads to "look presidential." He's got a good marketing team.