Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama said the surge of American forces in Iraq has ``succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,'' though Iraqis still haven't done enough to take responsibility for their country.
``The surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,'' Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in a recorded interview broadcast tonight on Fox News's ``The O'Reilly Factor'' program.
Obama has come under repeated criticism from Republican rival John McCain for opposing President George W. Bush's decision last year to send 20,000 extra combat troops to Iraq. While Obama said before that the additional forces have damped insurgent violence, his comments on the program were some of the strongest he's made on the issue.
The Illinois senator, who has promised to pull most U.S. combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months if he's elected president, repeated today his call for Iraqis to take more control of their own nation.
``Understand this, the argument was and continues to be when are we going to turn over responsibility to the Iraqis for their own country,'' Obama said during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania...
[a tip o'teh tinfoil to Chris Floyd again]
In other words, we want those frellin' oil fields, and we want 'em nice an' quiet, or our guns will be there forever.
On second thought, we'll be there until the oil runs out, anyway.
1 comment:
Obama didn't have to be assimilated. He only said what he said to use us as a platform for his own political ambitions. Now that he is the Dem candidate, he has no need for us now. Do you not understand who Obama is?
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