Is Obama about the future or the past in Iraq?

AP:

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain mocked Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday for saying he would take action as president "if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq."

"When you examine that statement, it's pretty remarkable," McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas.

"I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called `al-Qaida in Iraq,'" McCain said, drawing laughter at Obama's expense.

Obama quickly answered back, telling a rally at Ohio State University in Columbus, "I do know that al-Qaida is in Iraq."

"So I have some news for John McCain," he added, saying there was no al-Qaida presence in Iraq until President Bush invaded the country.

Noting that McCain likes to tell audiences that he'd follow Osama bin Laden to the "gates of hell" to catch him, Obama taunted: "All he (McCain) has done is to follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq."

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Notice the snarky non responsiveness of the Obama response. First he continues his willful ignorance of whether al Qaeda in Iraq is really in Iraq, then slides over into if they are there it is because we went to war there. Which is it? And if the campaign is to be about the future what are you going to do about the fact that they are there? Is he really naive enough to believe that they will leave if the US leaves? Obviously al Qaeda decided to fish in the troubled waters of Iraq after Saddam was deposed. Does that mean we should ignore them?

Everytime Obama talks about Iraq he makes clear how little he understands about the situation in Iraq. McCain should keep up the conversation.

Comments

  1. As someone said on another blog, it doesn't matter if they were there or not, they are there now, and they are being beaten there now, so it's the best place to fight them. And they *want* to fight us there.

    Not hard to understand at all.

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