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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29408)	5/31/2008 9:19:33 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224750

Obama Gaffes on Iraq and Afghanistan May 13, 2008 8:27 PM ABC News' David Wright and Sunlen Miller Report: Sporting a shiny new American flag pin at an appearance in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Barack Obama came up with some novel reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war in Afghanistan. "We don't have enough capacity right now to deal with it -- and it's not just the troops," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Obama posited -- incorrectly -- that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic. "We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said. The vast majority of military translators in both war zones are drawn from the local population. Naturally they speak the local language. In Iraq, that's Arabic or Kurdish. In Afghanistan, it's any of a half dozen other languages -- including Pashtu, Dari, and Farsi. No sooner did Obama realize his mistake -- and correct himself -- but he immediately made another. "We need agricultural specialists in Afghanistan, people who can help them develop other crops than heroin poppies, because the drug trade in Afghanistan is what is driving and financing these terrorist networks. So we need agricultural specialists," he said. So far, so good. "But if we are sending them to Baghdad, they're not in Afghanistan," Obama said. Iraq has many problems, but encouraging farmers to grow food instead of opium poppies isn't one of them. In Iraq, oil fields not poppy fields are a major source of U.S. technical assistance.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29408)	5/31/2008 12:23:02 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

McCain places his hand over his heart or salutes the flag for the National Anthem. He sacrificed 5.5yrs of his life as a POW for his fellow Americans. He also hasn't placed his foot in mouth by saying: "57 states; "typical white person"; "bitter Americans clinging to their religion & guns"; "fallen soldiers standing in the audience"; "can no more denounce uncle Jeremiah"; "friendly with anarchist Bill Ayers"; etc etc