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Obama vs. the Smart Guys (and Dumb Wars)
thenation.com — "I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars," Barack Obama explained in October 2002. He got it right. Now, perhaps, so can everyone else. Excellent column on how Iraq war hawks can still not admit they were wrong.
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- bbwolf7, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9And Obama is portrayed as weak on foreign policy? This passage is a key factor as to why he beat Hillary:
FTA: Recall the bracing good sense of Obama's October 2002 speech to a rally organized by Chicagoans Against War in Iraq: "I...know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military [has] a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda."- girwen, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6Did he write that last week with 20-20 hindsight? Or maybe he knew something almost nobody in congress or in the media knew six years ago?
- BarbArt, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Just courageous enough to speak his mind when everyone else was in the "post-9/11-we-can't-debate-the-administration-or-we-look-unpatriotic" mindset.
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