Obama’s Iraq Problem

Tuesday, July 1. 2008

The New Yorker's George Packer:

... as exhausted as the public is with the war, a candidate who seems heedless of progress in Iraq will be vulnerable to the charge of defeatism, which John McCain’s campaign will connect to its broader theme of Obama’s inexperience in and weakness on national security. The relative success of the surge is one of the few issues going McCain’s way; we’ll be hearing about it more and more between now and November, and it might sway some centrist voters who have doubts about Obama.

Posted by Tom Elia in War in Iraq at 00:03 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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The surge is only a "success" if you think that slaughtering more Iraqis is a "success." I'm so sick of how the corporate media keep spinning the insane slaughter in Iraq.

#1 libhomo (Homepage) on 2008-07-03 21:46 (Reply)

But deaths are down across the board -- and are certainly less than they were under Hussein -- isn't that a good thing?

Or is the real problem that it destroy the narrative that people like you depend on for political success in the US?

#1.1 Tom Elia on 2008-07-03 22:01 (Reply)

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