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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (21556)2/13/2007 6:01:57 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (3) of 35834
 
But, but I realy do support the troops!!!

Hey, don't worry Obama about negative reprucussions from saying what you really meant. The MSM will make sure to spin it quite favorably for you & quickly drop the issue.

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Barack Obama Says Lives of US Troops killed in Iraq were Wasted

By Kim Priestap on Barack Obama
Wizbang

As a family member of a fallen soldier in Iraq, I can't imagine a presidential candidate saying anything more callous, more offensive, or more ignorant of the ultimate sacrifice that our brave troops have made for us and our country.

Hat tip: Hot Air

Update: Obama clarified his statement after being hammered:

<<< He hastened to say yesterday that he did not mean to disparage the troops' sacrifice.

"It is not at all what I intended to say, and I would absolutely apologize if any [military families] felt that in some ways it had diminished the enormous courage and sacrifice that they'd shown," said Obama, who hit the stump in New Hampshire the day after Clinton finished a two-day swing in the early primary state.

"What I would say, and meant to say, is that their service hasn't been honored, because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed," Obama said after speaking to voters at the home of a state representative in Nashua. >>>

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