[Peace-discuss] Foreign press slightly more honest

[C. G. Estabrook]

Bullshit. He dined out as the "peace candidate," against that madman McCain, who 
would've expanded the war in the Middle East.  Obama's was a particularly 
devious and unprincipled bit of deception, as some pointed out at the time.


John Fettig wrote:
> Except there was no deception involved;  this is precisely what Obama 
> promised during his campaign.  See for 
> example http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/06/obama_mccain_split_over_afghan_strategy/
> 
>> If elected, Obama says, he would immediately withdraw thousands of 
>> ground troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan to help 
>> undermanned US forces defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
>>
>> "It's time to refocus our attention on the war we have to win in 
>> Afghanistan," Obama said in a speech last week. "It is time to go 
>> after the Al Qaeda leadership where it actually exists."
>>
>> The Illinois senator, whose opposition to the Iraq war is a campaign 
>> centerpiece, has concluded that the US presence there has fanned 
>> Islamic terrorism and diverted scarce military resources from taking 
>> on new terrorist camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Al Qaeda 
>> operatives trained for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
>>
>> Obama believes that the United States has relied too heavily on forces 
>> from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Europe-based military 
>> alliance which has little experience in guerrilla warfare.
>>
>> "Afghanistan should have been our fight," said retired Air Force 
>> General Merrill "Tony" McPeak, national cochairman of Obama's 
>> campaign. McPeak blamed the Iraq war, where the United States has 
>> about 140,000 troops, for diverting the Pentagon's focus on 
>> Afghanistan, where only 32,000 American troops are stationed.
>>
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> "Ah, ha!" he says. "Fooled you! I had my fingers crossed: I meant 
>> Iraq, not AfPak! Now I get to kill as many people as I want there!"
>>
>>
>> E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>> The NYT writers surely must have a bad taste in their mouths.
>>> *
>>> Was anyone supposed to believe this--?
>>> /"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out 
>>> by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will 
>>> get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take 
>>> that to the bank. " - Barack Obama Campaign Promise - October 27, 2007/
>>> ...
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