EVEN A SUCCESSFUL WAR AGAINST IRAQ WILL REQUIRE A US OCCUPATION OF UNDETERMINED LENGTH……..

Hillary has scoffed at Obama’s grasp of foreign affairs but this was what Barack Obama said in October 2002.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

IN OCTOBER 2002 BARACK OBAMA SAID “NOW LET ME BE CLEAR”

Now let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars

GW BUSH, DICK CHENEY, HILLARY CLINTON, JOHN KERRY, JOHN EDWARDS, JOHN McCAIN, RUDOLF GIULLIANI AND OTHERS WERE CLEARLY WRONG.

Latest Iowa Poll Shows Obama Leading the Pack

Latest Iowa Poll Shows Obama Leading the Pack
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Nov. 19: Sen. Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
While the top three Democratic presidential candidates are locked in a fierce campaign battle for Iowa, one candidate is riding a new wave of support.

According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama has surged to a 4 point lead over Hillary Clinton, and an 8 point lead over John Edwards.

In a survey of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, Obama draws support from 30 percent, compared with 26 percent for Clinton and 22 percent for former senator John Edwards. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson received 11 percent, The Washington Post reports.

IN OCTOBER 2002 OBAMA UNDERSTOOD A LOT OF THINGS THAT MOST OTHERS DID NOT.

1. OBAMA UNDERSTOOD THAT INVADING IRAQ WOULD BE A MISTAKE.

2 Obama understood that Iraq did not attack the USA.

3. Obama understood that Iraq was no imminant danger to the USA.

4. Obama understood that invading and occupying Iraq would not be a cakewaLK

5. Obama understood that the Iraq invasion could be counterproductive in the war on terrorism.

ALL OF WHICH IS NOT BAD FOR A 45 YEAR OLD YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING IS NOT SEASONED ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT.

This is what he said in October 2002.

Now let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.

FOR A SEAMLESS EXPLAINATION OF HOW AND WHY BUSH/CHENEY LIED US INTO THE IRAQ FIASCO

GOOGLE THE FOLLOWING:

LAWRENCE WILKERSON, PNAC, RICHARD A. CLARK, PAUL O’NEILL, DOWNING STREET MEMO, STOP CATALYZING EVENT.

I would like to know what I could google to hear a rebuttle. Maybe I am missing something.

IF YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, GOOGLE THE FOLLOWING:

LAWRENCE WILKERSON, PNAC, RICHARD A. CLARK, PAUL O’NEILL, DOWNING STREET MEMO, BLACKWATER, STOP CATALYZING EVENT.

If you cannot handle the truth, just vote for the candidate that you would most like to have a beer with.

IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH , DON’T GOOGLE:

LAWRENCE WILKERSON, PNAC, RICHARD A. CLARK, PAUL O’NEILL, DOWNING STREET MEMO, BLACKWATER, STOP CATALYZING EVENT.

Just keep on drinking the kool-ade.

TWO “DEAR ABBIE’ LETTERS

Dear Abby:

My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning
and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What’s worse, everyone
knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating.
Also, since he lost his job six years ago, he hasn’t even looked for a new
one. All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise around and shoot the
breeze with his buddies while I have to work to pay the bills.

Since our daughter went away to college he doesn’t even pretend to like me
and hints that I may be a lesbian. What should I do?
Signed: Clueless

Dear Clueless:

Grow up and dump him. Good grief, woman, you don’t need him anymore!
You’re a United States Senator from New York running for President of the
United States. Act like one!

Dear Abby,

I was back from World War Two and was visiting my girlfriend at Smith College when I managed to get in her pants and lo and behold, she got pregnant and I did the right thing and married her. We went on to have three more boys: Marvin, Neil and Jeb . (Actually, there is some question about the milkman being Jeb’s biological father.) I was so busy in my business and political careers that I was’nt much of an involved father. Except for Jeb, none of the boys amounted to much. However the oldest had become very adept at screwing up things gracefully, always being forgiven and given another chance..

We sent him off to prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA,. We bought him books but all he ever did was to eat the covers off the books. Since my father and I had both gone to Yale and had made something of ourselves, he was admitted based on his legacy. As an intellectually lazy but sociable guy he managed to fit in with his more intellectually inclined classmates as the “go to guy” when they had driven their intellectual neurons to the point of collapse and they needed to give them a rest by hanging out with our oldest son.

After he graduated from Yale, he became your basic drifter with a drinking problem until he was 40. After one publicly intoxicated incident we got Billy Graham to take him under his wing and the kid found Jesus and stopped drinking. By dint of my connections and his uncanney talent for failing with aplomb, he went through an unbroken series of business failures starting with Arbusto (which drilled so many dry oil wells that it was dubbed “Are Busted” in the trade).

To make a long story short, the Neoconservatives, whose political philosophy included the view that the world would be better off under American leadership needed an innocent-looking standard bearer. In order to impose that hegemony on the world we needed a massive military build-up, and aggressive foreign policy . What was called for was someone who could get elected but would allow the Neocon agenda to unfold. My kid had managed my successful 1988 Presidential campaign. He actually had a very good grasp of elective politics. The Neoconservatives got him elected to the largely ceremonial post of Texas Governor and then President of the USA. The rest is history.

Since 2001, I have winced at each of his blundering strokes as I have watched him lie us into a total fiasco in Iraq, run up the national debt, in part, by giving tax breaks that favorized the rich, replacing professionals at FEMA with political hacks, replacing responsible regulators with former lobbyists from the industry they are supposed to oversee…

Most of the world now looks unfavorably upon the USA for its policies since 2001. The country is bitterly divided. The GOP is still under the influence of the Neocons and cannot or will not admit that they have been responsible for allowing the Neocons to dictate their agenda.

Where have I gone wrong?

(Signed)
Devastated

Dear Devastated,

In the first place, why did you not use a condom? Coitus interuptus and oral sex would have been other alternatives. Abortion was illegal in those days but certainly you had the financial resources to have it done safely and quietly.

Why did you not spend more time with your son. Why did you not impart to him those qualities that made you such a successful businessman and public servant .

The one thing to console you is that your legacy as President will be judged as successful and it will look even better if it is compared to that of your neer-do-well offspring.

You were a good president but a lousy father.

BUSH LITE ANYONE ?

THE IRAQ WAR WAS A GREAT IDEA? IT SHOULD JUST BE MANAGED A LITTLE BETTER? We don’t need the rest of the world to straighten out the mess that GW Bush created by invading Iraq ?

How about a tough guy like Rudy? How about a Republican who supports the PNAC agenda. How about Hillary or Edwards who voted for the Iraq war?

OR DO WE WANT AN AMERICAN WHO STILL HAS CREDIBILITY ON THE WORLD STAGE? APPARENTLY TOO FEW WANT TO HAVE A BEER WITH AL GORE. SO THAT LEAVES US WITH OBAMA WHO HAS THE INTELLIGENCE, VALUES, JUDGEMENT AND EXPERIENCE TO TURN AROUND THE USA AND GET OTHER COUNTRIES SINCERELY BACK ON OUR SIDE.

WHEN WILL MOST AMERICANS LEARN ABOUT NEOCONS ?

ARE THE DEMOCRATS SAVING IT FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION? One hears it mentioned only sporadically from time to time.

When will Neoconservative become a bad word to a significant number of Americans?

When will Americans realise that there is very little if anything conservative about Neonconservatism?

When will Americans learn about The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) ?

When will Liberals realize the they need real Conservatives to keep them honest? (AND VICE VERSA)

NEITHER LIBERALS NOR CONSERVATIVES HAVE A MONOPOLY OF THE TRUTH OR ALL THE RIGHT ANSWERS.

THE NEOCONSERVATIVES DO SEEM TO HAVE SOMETHING OF A MONOPOLY ON THE WRONG ANSWERS.