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To: Sully- who wrote (77479)	2/12/2010 1:34:29 AM
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Rasmussen: 54% say Congress shouldn't attempt health care reform until after November By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 02/11/10 12:18 PM EST Some of the more notable results from the latest Rasmussen poll: <<< A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds just 28% who think it is better to build on the health care plan that has been working its way through the House and Senate. Support for and opposition to the existing plan remain at the same levels they’ve been at since just after Thanksgiving. Only 35% of voters believe Congress should pass health care reform before the upcoming midterm elections anyway. Fifty-four percent (54%) say Congress should wait until voters select new congressional representatives in November. >>> That's a pretty clear rejection of the way Democrats have gone about health care reform. Also notable -- 61 percent of Americans say Congress should "start all over again on health care." Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (77479)	2/12/2010 3:19:28 AM
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Republicans Object to Biden Taking Credit for Success in Iraq Republicans say Vice President Biden can't claim success for Iraq after opposing the troop surge. By Mike Emanuel FOXNews.com As senators, Barack Obama and Joe Biden both opposed the troop surge in Iraq -- and Biden even wanted to divide the country into three sections. But as vice president, Biden is taking credit for success in Iraq. "I am very optimistic about Iraq," he said. "I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration." But Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said you cannot oppose the surge and then claim it for your legacy. "When Joe Biden was in the Senate and Obama was in the Senate, they authored and were the chief architect of the resolution opposing the surge," he said. The vice president also took credit for the troop drawdown. "You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer," he said. "You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government." But the drawdown was negotiated in the Status of Forces Agreement before the Obama administration took office. "The reduction in U.S. forces that is under way right now is in fact important and it's largely the continuation of the policy that President Bush had set in place when he negotiated the drawdown schedule with Prime Minister Maliki at the end of 2008," Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution told Fox News. In fact, the agreement called for having U.S. troops out of Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. combat troops out by the end of 2011. "The timetable for withdrawing those troops had been worked on for a long time, way preceding this administration coming into power, and that timetable really centered on success in Iraq," said Col. Bill Cowan, a Fox News contributor. "That success starting really after the surge that was implemented by the previous administration." At the White House, the day after the vice president's remarks, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked how the administration could take credit for Iraq. "Well, putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year," he said, adding that Obama helped provide critical "political pressure" on Iraq policy before taking office. Experts, noting a peaceful transfer of power is a key step for a young democracy, suggest another major test for Iraq is coming up March 7, when provincial elections are scheduled to be held. foxnews.com

To: Sully- who wrote (77479)	2/12/2010 12:54:13 PM
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EVERYTHING they're taking credit for in Iraq was Bush'd doing. OVER Obama's opposition. He proposed letting it turn into a genocidal bloodbath.

To: Sully- who wrote (77479)	2/15/2010 7:44:26 AM
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Gibbs doubles down on Biden claim that Iraq is great Obama administration achievement By: John McCormack Weekly Standard 02/12/10 3:19 PM EST Via Andrew Malcom, this is just embarrassing: Q Robert, the Vice President last night said that Iraq could end up being one of the President's great achievements. Given that the Vice President was in favor of a partial partition of the country and the President opposed the surge that helped stabilize it, how is that one of the President's great achievements? MR. GIBBS: Well, putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year. Q But the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the President took office. MR. GIBBS: Something that -- something that I think the political pressure that the President, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about. Look, I think that we will long debate Iraq. We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball. I think historians will debate that long after we're gone. I think they will come likely to the conclusion that no single event took our eye off of what needed to be done in order to -- in order to occupy a country that, until we got there, didn’t have a single member of al Qaeda. So, look, obviously -- look, the Vice President has been deeply involved in fixing the political process there so that elections can be held and so that our troops can come home as scheduled this summer. >>> Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com