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To: Brumar89 who wrote (118721)	3/20/2008 9:01:31 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 173976

RNC: In Case You Missed It Fox News On Barack Obama's Inconsistencies On Iraq War WASHINGTON, March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Republican National Committee: Fox News' James Rosen: "To hear Senator Obama tell it in Fayetteville, the home of Fort Bragg, he has never wavered in his opposition to the Iraq war. It's true that Obama, speaking in Chicago on October 2002, opposed the invasion of Iraq. But in public statements thereafter, the Illinois senator has occasionally cast himself as a supporter of President Bush's conduct of the war and has also been at times, far off the mark in his forecasts of how specific adjustments in tactics would affect the military situation on the ground. Early on in the war, when American troops racked up a series of major victories, Obama, as he later admitted, started to harbor doubts about his initial posture against the war. When the invasion was finally launched and U.S. forces marched unimpeded through Baghdad, Obama wrote in his memoir, the 'Audacity of Hope,' 'When I saw Saddam's statue topple and watched the president stand atop the USS Abraham Lincoln, a banner behind him proclaiming 'Mission Accomplished,' I began to suspect that I might have been wrong.' During the 2004 Democratic Convention, Obama declined to criticize John Kerry for voting for the war saying, 'What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point, the case was not made.' The next day, Obama told 'The Chicago Tribune,' 'There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage,' and that fall, Obama echoed the president, telling Charlie Rose, 'Once we go in, then we're committed,' and adding, 'We've got to do everything we can to stabilize the country to make it successful because we'll have too much at stake in the Middle East.' With the bombing of the golden dome mosque in Samarra, sectarian tensions in Iraq boiled over, leading to intense and bloody fighting between Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias. American troops were often caught in the crosshairs, and violence in Iraq spiraled seemingly out of control. Thus, President Bush ordered the build-up or surge in U.S. troops which, when fully implemented by last June, helped reduce casualties among U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians by some 60 percent. But Obama predicted a completely opposite result telling Tim Russert on 'Meet The Press' 80 days earlier, 'We cannot through putting in more troops or maintaining the presence that we have, expect that the situation is going to improve.' Senator Obama's whole point in saying he has opposed the Iraq war from the start is to cast himself as a more astute analyst of national security than Senator Hillary Clinton, his rival, who voted for the war. Yet a comparison of all 85 votes on Iraq since Obama began serving in the Senate three years ago shows he and Mrs. Clinton differed only once, on the nomination of General George Casey, the top commander in Iraq for nearly three years to become army chief of staff, a nomination which Obama, unlike Senator Clinton, supported..." (Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume," 3/19/08) Paid for by the Republican National Committee. gop.com Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (118721)	3/20/2008 11:57:45 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

LIAR. The Hannitized fascist rightwing cannot stop trying to smear Obama with Muslim black radicalism, as if Obama has anything to do with any of that. This is just as dishonest a smear campaign as the smearvets caling war hero Kerry a coward and traitor. It won't work and it won't matter come fall. This year the American people are really duffering and they want solutions and answers. The economy, stupid, is the key issue, and our endless waste of money in Iraq is connected to that. I am calling out Sean Hannity, Fox News and A-holes like you for lying to smear Obama by ignoring all the important issues we face, including a very trouble gaffe by McCain and big fat lies about Iraq from Bush-Cheney, all to smear Obama for something he had no part of. That is not only grossly unfair, it's another cynical lie from the rightwing which can only win by dividing us, making us hate each other, then cheating to steal close elections.