Obama on the Iraq war

Watch this compilation of different positions on withdrawing from Iraq (50 sec), all from Senator Obama.

Mr. Obama bases his campaign on his superior judgment, and that in turn is based on his speech against the war in Iraq. Of course, he never made a vote against the war, as at the time he was in the Illinois legislature, not the U.S. Senate. He gave the speech at an anti-war rally in the liberal Hyde Park section in Chicago.

Since he's been in the Senate, he's been wrong on every issue related to Iraq. He claimed that the Anbar Awakening took place as a result of Democrats' congressional victories, but it began in September 2006, two months before the voting took place. He opposed not only the troop surge, but also the strategic changes that took place along with it, that did so much to enable the victory. He said the American military had nothing to do with the Anbar Awakening or with the retreat of the Sadr militia, something denied by the Iraqi military and by the Iraqi Sunnis themselves.

To bolster his foreign policy credentials, he picked Sen. Joe Biden as vice president. Sen. Biden voted for the war in Iraq, which vote Sen. Obama views as the symbol of bad judgment.  So even Sen. Obama admits Sen. Biden has bad judgment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1q9Q0OtJ4g  (3:47)

Sen. Biden also voted against the first Gulf War, even after Iraq had invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. He opposed the surge. He opposed Reagan's build-up to fight international communism. Experience clearly does not equate to good judgment.