Washington Post turns on Obama briefly

In yesterday’s editorial, the Washington Post editorial board harshly denounced Obama’s inability to change his 16-month time table withdrawal policy for Iraq;

 BARACK OBAMA yesterday accused President Bush and Sen. John McCain of rigidity on Iraq: “They said we couldn’t leave when violence was up, they say we can’t leave when violence is down.” Mr. Obama then confirmed his own foolish consistency.

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Mr. Obama’s charge against the Republicans was not entirely fair, since Mr. Bush has overseen the withdrawal of five American brigades from Iraq this year, and Mr. McCain has suggested that he would bring most of the rest of the troops home by early 2013. Mr. Obama’s timeline would end in the summer of 2010, a year or two before the earliest dates proposed recently by members of the Iraqi government.

The Post went on to criticize Obama’s position as the surge began;

At the time he first proposed his timetable, Mr. Obama argued — wrongly, as it turned out — that U.S. troops could not stop a sectarian civil war.

The Post is just getting all of this out of the way so they can call it “old news” in October and still maintain a semblance of even-handedness. But the fact remains that Barack Obama has been wrong on Iraq since the beginning. The Left criticizes President Bush for being strong-willed when they’ve thought he was wrong. How about Barack Obama who can’t see the truth in front of his stupid face?
All of his judgments through the entire war, from the beginning, if we can believe that he was against the war from the beginning, have been wrong. Even if he changes his position today, that doesn’t change the fact that he’s been wrong since the get-go.

That’s not good leadership, just making the popular decision – that’s Jimmy Carter /Bill Clinton political maneuvering. It’s the failed politics of the past.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics, Terror War