{"id":2741,"date":"2010-09-01T03:43:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2010-09-01T03:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:43:46","slug":"obamas-iraq-speech-complete-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/obamas-iraq-speech-complete-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Iraq Speech – Complete Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t seen the speech, here it is in its entirety with my commentary following:<\/font><\/p>\n

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When Obama called it \u201ca war to disarm a state\u201d, I disagree.  It was an aggressive, illegal, Republican war for oil and conquest.  It had nothing to do with arms.  That was a lie.  He should have said so.<\/font><\/p>\n

I fully agree with his praise for out troops.  Their problems came from flawed Republican leadership.<\/font><\/p>\n

I disagree with him on Afghanistan.  I cannot overly fault him, because I voted for him knowing that he planned to expand that war.  I think he should be flexible, given that the corruption of Republican puppet Karzai, and recognize a lose-lose situation.  At least he confirmed his commitment to start the withdrawal next August.<\/font><\/p>\n

I agree that the focus needs to shift to the economy and restoring the middle class, but his call for unity is in vain.  If he thinks Republicans will cooperate, perhaps he might want to buy the infrastructure I\u2019m selling in Brooklyn.<\/font><\/p>\n

But at one thing, I felt outrage:<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Obama hailed his predecessor, George W. Bush, in his remarks on the end of combat operations in Iraq Tuesday night, stating that even though "he and I disagreed about the war from its outset," "no one could doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security."<\/p>\n

"As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it," he said\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bush and his Republican cronies tried to screw our troops at every opportunity and did more to jeopardize our nation\u2019s security than any of his predecessors.  He should have not have lied for Bush\u2019s benefit.<\/font><\/p>\n

In short, this was not the speech Obama should have given.  That said, I still prefer him over the Republicans<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t seen the speech, here it is in its entirety with my commentary following: When Obama called it \u201ca war to disarm a state\u201d, I disagree.  It was an aggressive, illegal, Republican war for oil and conquest.  It had nothing to do with arms.  That was a lie.  He should have said […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}