Stanley Burrell
08-01-2007, 03:46 PM
This is why I will be voting for this man:
WASHINGTON (CNN) –Sen. Barack Obama says he would shift the war on terror to Pakistan and Afghanistan in a speech he delivered Wednesday.
In his speech, Obama, D-Illinois, said things would look different in an Obama administration: “When I am President, we will wage the war that has to be won, with a comprehensive strategy with five elements: getting out of Iraq and on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan; developing the capabilities and partnerships we need to take out the terrorists and the world’s most deadly weapons; engaging the world to dry up support for terror and extremism; restoring our values; and securing a more resilient homeland.”
Obama says the war in Iraq has left Americans more in danger than before 9/11.
“The President would have us believe that every bomb in Baghdad is part of al Qaeda’s war against us, not an Iraqi civil war,” Obama will say. “He elevates al Qaeda in Iraq — which didn’t exist before our invasion — and overlooks the people who hit us on 9/11, who are training recruits in Pakistan.”
Despite the challenges, and potentially destabilizing effect U.S. military action inside Pakistan could create, Obama said it was important to remain enagaged there. “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again,” he will say. “It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
Obama also reiterated his disagreement with the Bush administration’s diplomatic posture. “It’s time to turn the page on the diplomacy of tough talk and no action,” he said. “It’s time to turn the page on Washington’s conventional wisdom that agreement must be reached before you meet, that talking to other countries is some kind of reward, and that Presidents can only meet with people who will tell them what they want to hear.”
Obama also said he would create an international intelligence and law enforcement infrastructure to address terrorist threats from Indonesia to Africa.
Obama delivered his remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
The one thing that I feel seperates Obama from any other candidates is how he hasn't sang the six year 9-11 opera about Iraq.
A lot of my staunch friends tell me that Pakistan is a sovereign nation. They (my conservative buddies) use this as an end all Armageddon/WWIII scenario as if mentioning Pakistan's sovereign nation status justifies any and all reasons to keep our largest troop upkeep in Iraq and not Afghanistan.
It is not my belief that a nation who is giving capacity, within its jurisdiction, to those who started Bush's ejaculatory Iraqi fit. It is also not my belief to have an all-too-quick troop withdrawal in Iraq. However, the war we are fighting is a war on terror. I don't call it two seperate wars. I still want our troops to get the bastards who actually created American casualties.
If and when 9-11 part 2 occurs, I don't want our troops dying in Venezuela (although I do believe with every bone in my body that only Dubya as an '00 candidate would have attacked Iraq.)
Right now as it stands, we have our soldiers dying; Americans, who have undoubtedly been the victim of moves made by Iran. Someone please argue against the idea of initial American casualties by the pre-emptive doctrine vs. -- The first, in a string of many, attacks by Iran that have killed our people:
And I hold this in direct contrast to the 0 casualties sustained at the hands of Saddam.
I want to see Osama's head impaled on Odin's Gungnir. I don't see the steps occurring that I believe would make this happen, in fact, I'd say that anti-American sentiment having grown the way it has because of this administration's weetawtedness has bolstered forces who are our true enemies in a post-9/11 Earth.
I don't want war. I'd rather have the U.S.A. secular and pacificistic, but since it seems that war has to be an option, as is applicable to presidential nominees who do have a chance of becoming Commander in Chief, I'd at least want our stupid revenge hard-ons aimed at the "right" target with the constant "strength in numbers" troop banter. I, having been a tad closer to Ground Zero than your pro-Bush country bumpkin living in Assfuck, TN, feel that the Obama platform is solid for such a cause... Even with my overall Anti-Politician sentiments.
WASHINGTON (CNN) –Sen. Barack Obama says he would shift the war on terror to Pakistan and Afghanistan in a speech he delivered Wednesday.
In his speech, Obama, D-Illinois, said things would look different in an Obama administration: “When I am President, we will wage the war that has to be won, with a comprehensive strategy with five elements: getting out of Iraq and on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan; developing the capabilities and partnerships we need to take out the terrorists and the world’s most deadly weapons; engaging the world to dry up support for terror and extremism; restoring our values; and securing a more resilient homeland.”
Obama says the war in Iraq has left Americans more in danger than before 9/11.
“The President would have us believe that every bomb in Baghdad is part of al Qaeda’s war against us, not an Iraqi civil war,” Obama will say. “He elevates al Qaeda in Iraq — which didn’t exist before our invasion — and overlooks the people who hit us on 9/11, who are training recruits in Pakistan.”
Despite the challenges, and potentially destabilizing effect U.S. military action inside Pakistan could create, Obama said it was important to remain enagaged there. “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again,” he will say. “It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
Obama also reiterated his disagreement with the Bush administration’s diplomatic posture. “It’s time to turn the page on the diplomacy of tough talk and no action,” he said. “It’s time to turn the page on Washington’s conventional wisdom that agreement must be reached before you meet, that talking to other countries is some kind of reward, and that Presidents can only meet with people who will tell them what they want to hear.”
Obama also said he would create an international intelligence and law enforcement infrastructure to address terrorist threats from Indonesia to Africa.
Obama delivered his remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
The one thing that I feel seperates Obama from any other candidates is how he hasn't sang the six year 9-11 opera about Iraq.
A lot of my staunch friends tell me that Pakistan is a sovereign nation. They (my conservative buddies) use this as an end all Armageddon/WWIII scenario as if mentioning Pakistan's sovereign nation status justifies any and all reasons to keep our largest troop upkeep in Iraq and not Afghanistan.
It is not my belief that a nation who is giving capacity, within its jurisdiction, to those who started Bush's ejaculatory Iraqi fit. It is also not my belief to have an all-too-quick troop withdrawal in Iraq. However, the war we are fighting is a war on terror. I don't call it two seperate wars. I still want our troops to get the bastards who actually created American casualties.
If and when 9-11 part 2 occurs, I don't want our troops dying in Venezuela (although I do believe with every bone in my body that only Dubya as an '00 candidate would have attacked Iraq.)
Right now as it stands, we have our soldiers dying; Americans, who have undoubtedly been the victim of moves made by Iran. Someone please argue against the idea of initial American casualties by the pre-emptive doctrine vs. -- The first, in a string of many, attacks by Iran that have killed our people:
And I hold this in direct contrast to the 0 casualties sustained at the hands of Saddam.
I want to see Osama's head impaled on Odin's Gungnir. I don't see the steps occurring that I believe would make this happen, in fact, I'd say that anti-American sentiment having grown the way it has because of this administration's weetawtedness has bolstered forces who are our true enemies in a post-9/11 Earth.
I don't want war. I'd rather have the U.S.A. secular and pacificistic, but since it seems that war has to be an option, as is applicable to presidential nominees who do have a chance of becoming Commander in Chief, I'd at least want our stupid revenge hard-ons aimed at the "right" target with the constant "strength in numbers" troop banter. I, having been a tad closer to Ground Zero than your pro-Bush country bumpkin living in Assfuck, TN, feel that the Obama platform is solid for such a cause... Even with my overall Anti-Politician sentiments.