Posted by
Defend America on Friday, May 30, 2008 9:28:32 AM
It is unbelievable that a presidential candidate who has spoken about pulling out all the troops out of Iraq, has not been there since the successful surge has been put in place. You know who I'm talking about. Mr. Obama's last trip to Iraq was in 2006 when things were not going so well. Now, many people in Iraq say things are vastly improving. Just last week Ambassador Ryan Crocker said that Al Qaeda is on the run. The Iraqi government has made vast improvements politically. When David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker came last time to testify in April they said that the Iraqi government has reached 13 benchmarks when previously reported in September the government only had achieved 5.
Barack Obama should take up John McCain's offer to visit Iraq with him because otherwise it shows him as weak and afraid. Mr. Obama has every reason to be afraid because if he realizes that the issue that he has been staunchly against (keeping troops in Iraq) is really a more positive situation than he speaks about in his speeches, his could lose all credibility. His campaign could be over. Because many people are voting for Barack Obama because of his judgment, well what would it say of a presidential candidate saying things are going bad just for political expediency when in reality things are getting much better in Iraq. Barack Obama needs to stay away from Iraq for his own political objectives. In the end, it will hurt him either if he goes or does not go.