Obama's current policy on Iraq (as of today, it changes around a lot) is to withdraw our forces to nearby bases outside of the country and run missions into Iraq to aid the Iraqi forces when violence escalates.
As much as the DNC and his campaign are touting McCain's campaign as running for "Bush's 3rd Term" what kind of change is Obama selling here?
As the NY Times even pointed out:
"A rapid transfer of responsibility to Iraqi forces and withdrawal to large bases was attempted in 2005 and 2006, with disastrous results when the Iraqi units proved incapable of halting major attacks, and sectarian violence worsened."
Obama's policy on Iraq is what even left leaning media sources consider one of the Bush Admin's most disastrous tactics.
Obama's Iraq policy doesn't just include one of the Bush Admin's tactical mistakes... Obama's plan makes those tactical mistakes the entire strategy!
McCain may share some of Bush's policies on Iraq, but he shares the ones that worked. Unlike Obama he isn't pushing the failed policies as a grand new strategy and calling that "change."
You add that to Obama's repeated assertions that we would need UN, and thus Chinese/Russion permission, to take action on humanitarian issues, genocide, and regional conflicts he'd give the green light to China to take Taiwan by force, for the genocide in Sudan to continue, for Iran to renew its nuclear weapons program, etc with absolutely no real pressure or worry about it leading to a possible intervention...
Obama is the "change" that tyrants, oppressors, and America's enemies can believe in!
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"McCain may share some of Bush's policies on Iraq, but he shares the ones that worked."
Please define "worked." Following that, can you provide specific examples of these supposedly successful policies?
Hopefully you are not choking on these questions, Glock21?
Oil Man... no choking... was finishing watching a movie though.
Politicalchemy... McCain was a major propronent and force behind the leadership and policy changes that led to the current, and as even the NY Times has been forced to admit, far more successful tactics and progress in Iraq.
Meanwhile Obama and Hillary are pushing for 'a rapid transfer of responsibility to Iraqi forces and withdrawal to large bases' just outside of Iraq where they can intervene when areas are inevitably taken back over by insurgent forces. I.E. taking Bush's strategic mistakes, applying it nation-wide there, and calling it "change." I call it reverting back to failed policy. But to each their own.
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Wow. I had no idea Bush had withdrawn all troops from Iraq and set up forces outside of the country. When did this happen, and why was it a failure?
I really need to read the international section more often.
Well, either way, it is good to see the US Troops fighting the Mahdi Army on behalf of al-Maliki again. No doubt this is all part of the progress we are seeing in Iraq: our soldiers fighting their war. Yay!