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Some Iraqi Officials Say Obama Doesn’t Care About Winning In Iraq
I’m glad to see that at least privately some Iraqi officials see Barry’s iron clad troop withdrawal pledge for what it is, surrender. His refusal to admit that he was dead wrong on the surge shows exactly what kind of President he would be.
According to the NY Post, Iraqis are beginning to see the reality of Barack Obama as opposed to the image of Obama the left-wing press pushes.
“He looked like a man in a hurry,” a source close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said last week. “He was not interested in what we had to say.”
Still, many Iraqis liked Obama’s claim that the improved situation in Iraq owed to Iraqi efforts rather than the Gen. David Petraeus-led surge. In public and private comments, Obama tried to give the impression that the Iraqis would’ve achieved the same results even without the greater resources America has poured into the country since 2007.
In private, though, Iraqi officials admit that Obama’s analysis is “way off the mark.” Without the surge, the Sunni tribes wouldn’t have switched sides to help flush out al Qaeda. And the strong US military presence enabled the new Iraqi army to defeat Iran-backed Shiite militias in Basra and Baghdad.
Probably the most troubling thing is that impression Obama left about what “success” in Iraq means to him.
Iraqis were most surprised by Obama’s apparent readiness to throw away all the gains made in Iraq simply to prove that he’d been right in opposing the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein. “He gave us the impression that the last thing he wanted was for Iraq to look anything like a success for the United States,” a senior Iraqi official told me. “As far as he is concerned, this is Bush’s war and must end in lack of success, if not actual defeat.”
Unfortunately, I think that’s pretty accurate. Obama’s opposition and that of his left-wing colleagues to the Iraq war is only partly about being appeasers, cowards, and pacifists. A major reason for the opposition is a purely political one. They hate George W. Bush with every fiber of their being and losing the war in Iraq is about causing damage to the President. Obama thinks that if he can cause us to lose in Iraq it will ultimately be blamed on Bush and will discourage future Presidents from engaging in preemptive wars.
It is that kind of delusional and dangerous mindset that we don’t need right now. What we need is a President who will steadfastly see our country through to victory.
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