Barack Obama Was Right: American Soldiers Lives Being Wasted In Iraq
Robert Paul Reyes
February 16, 2007
“We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we have now spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama uttered this controversial statement at a campaign stop at the Iowa State University campus.
Bloggers, pundits and assorted Republican spin doctors immediately jumped all over Obama for suggesting that American soldiers were dying in vain.
A couple of days later Obama offered this explanation to the New York Times: “What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored, because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.”
Obama is perhaps the most articulate candidate running for office, and when he spoke before the Iowa State University audience, he was reading from a scripted speech. He meant to say that American soldiers lives were being wasted, and there was no need for him to attempt to dull the impact of his words.
American soldiers are dying in vain — Period. American soldiers lives are being wasted — Period. Obama spoke the truth, and it’s sad that he backtracked from his courageous words because of political expediency.
Iraqis have nothing but disgust and disdain for democracy, they prefer being under bondage to their Islamic leaders. Democracy will never take hold in that infernal and infertile soil; the blood of our soldiers is indeed being shed in vain.
American soldiers are unable to quash the insurgency, police the civil war, or even put an end to the general lawlessness.
Our soldiers are courageous, dedicated and the best in the world, but it would take an overwhelming force, of hundreds of thousands, to stem the tide of violence in Iraq. And even then, as soon as we left, the country would once again revert to chaos and bloodletting.
Three thousand American lives have been wasted in Iraq. For the love of God, isn’t that enough?
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama uttered this controversial statement at a campaign stop at the Iowa State University campus.
Bloggers, pundits and assorted Republican spin doctors immediately jumped all over Obama for suggesting that American soldiers were dying in vain.
A couple of days later Obama offered this explanation to the New York Times: “What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored, because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.”
Obama is perhaps the most articulate candidate running for office, and when he spoke before the Iowa State University audience, he was reading from a scripted speech. He meant to say that American soldiers lives were being wasted, and there was no need for him to attempt to dull the impact of his words.
American soldiers are dying in vain — Period. American soldiers lives are being wasted — Period. Obama spoke the truth, and it’s sad that he backtracked from his courageous words because of political expediency.
Iraqis have nothing but disgust and disdain for democracy, they prefer being under bondage to their Islamic leaders. Democracy will never take hold in that infernal and infertile soil; the blood of our soldiers is indeed being shed in vain.
American soldiers are unable to quash the insurgency, police the civil war, or even put an end to the general lawlessness.
Our soldiers are courageous, dedicated and the best in the world, but it would take an overwhelming force, of hundreds of thousands, to stem the tide of violence in Iraq. And even then, as soon as we left, the country would once again revert to chaos and bloodletting.
Three thousand American lives have been wasted in Iraq. For the love of God, isn’t that enough?
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