WaPo calls Obama’s Iraq plan outdated

The lead editorial in the Washington Post this morning characterizes Barack Obama’s position on the war in Iraq as “badly outdated”;

SEN. BARACK OBAMA told Iraq’s foreign minister this week that he plans to visit the country between now and the presidential election. We think that’s a good thing, not because Sen. John McCain has been prodding the candidate to do it but because it will give Mr. Obama an opportunity to refresh his badly outdated plan for Iraq. To do that, the Democrat needs to listen more to dedicated Iraqi leaders like Hoshyar Zebari, the foreign minister — who, it seems, didn’t hold back during their telephone conversation.

Mr. Obama laid out his current strategy for Iraq in November 2006, shortly before announcing his candidacy for president. At the time, Iraq appeared to be on the verge of a sectarian civilian war, and Mr. Obama was trying to distinguish himself in the Democratic primary race by offering a timetable for withdrawal. Nineteen months later, the situation in Iraq has changed dramatically, with violence down 75 percent from its peak and the Iraqi government and army in control of most of the country. But Mr. Obama has not altered his position:

Not only is it outdated, it’s been wrong since he formulated his intellectually shallow “plan”. If Obama had the opportunity to enact this “plan”, Iraqis would be suffering the consequences of that wrong-headed and ill-conceived shot at pandering to his anti-war base. Of course, we wouldn’t know about it, just like many Americans are surprised when they discover that Somalia and Haiti are still embroiled in violence a decade after they stopped being newsworthy here in the US.

Just as a few new commenters here haven’t updated their arguments on the legality of our involvement in Iraq, Obama’s current policy needs to be updated considering recent successes there. But I wouldn’t hold my breath awaiting any coherent thoughts coming from either our resident commenters or Obama and his acolytes. They seem to have super powers that make them impervious to facts.

Earlier this week, Obama said that he hasn’t “seen any evidence” that tax cuts help the economy, nor has hr seen any evidence that we’re safer because of Iraq just yesterday. As long as the left fails to “see any evidence” that’s contrary to the party line, they’ll find themselves at odds with the truth and the actual facts. And in the minority in Congress…and not in the White House.

They repeat the false McCain quote about staying in Iraq for a hundred years and the retarded mischaracterization of opposition to the Senator Webb version of the GI Bill because they won’t look at facts – and they don’t see any reason that Obama should look at the facts either. They’re comfortable finding easy and non-intellectual reasons for supporting Obama because it makes them feel good about themselves. To Hell with what damage they do to the country.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War