"Obama says US must reassert world leadership; Discusses tour, good, bad news on war front" by Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | July 28, 2008
CHICAGO - Barack Obama, in his first American public appearance since returning from his weeklong tour of Iraq, Afghanistan, and western Europe, declared yesterday that America must reassert its world leadership.
By doing what, attacking Iran?
He suggested that the Pentagon should take advantage of the security gains the "surge" strategy achieved in Iraq to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Oh.
Why am I liking this guy less and less the more he sounds like George W. Bush?
"We're going to need more troops in Afghanistan. But we're also going to need more effective cooperation from the Pakistani government in rooting out these safe havens," Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, told a group of several hundred minority journalists attending the Unity convention in his hometown. "So there's some good news on the war front, but there's also some bad news."
I'm sick of the "war front," especially since it is based on DAMNABLE LIES!!!!
Obama sought to link domestic headaches with urgent world problems. While he praised Congress for passing a bill helping homeowners who are facing foreclosure on their homes, he noted, the war has drained money that could have gone to help deal with spiraling gas prices, a faltering US economy, and climate change.
"We can't keep spending $10 billion a month in Iraq at a time when we've got enormous pressing needs here in the United States of America - including, by the way, taking care of veterans who are coming home with post-traumatic stress disorder, disabilities, and they are still not getting a lot of the services that they need," Obama said.
And yet he wants to create MORE of them!!!!
O', 'bamer, we had such high hopes for ye!!!!
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