OBAMA'S WAR DE-ESCALATION ACT
By Robert Klein Engler (02/02/07)
CHICAGO--(2 February '07) The junior Senator from Illinois is being forced out of the political closet. Barack Hussein Obama's campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate for President means he must come out and position himself somewhere on the issues. It seems, now, that his position will be a turn to the left of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is also running for President as a Democrat.
The Chicago Tribune reports (January 30, '07), Barack Hussein Obama "unveiled his bill, the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007. His legislation would cap the number of troops at the level that existed as of Jan. 10. Furthermore, it would require a redeployment of U. S. combat forces to start by May of this year and be completed by March 2008."
According to a Senator Barack Hussein Obama press release, "The American people have been asked to be patient too many times, too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent," Obama said. "It's time for a policy that can bring a responsible end to this war and bring our troops home," he added.
Although Senator Barack Hussein Obama's proposed legislation has little chance to pass, it tells us how the Senator views aspects of our foreign policy. We see by this proposal that he does not understand this war is not only in Iraq, but is also against militant Islam everywhere. Senator Barack Hussein Obama's proposal has turned around the formula for victory, too. Among nation states, military victory usually leads to political solutions, not the other way around.
Ask Senator Barack Hussein Obama why we can't win in Iraq, and he may tell you something vague. He may say we should have never gone there in the first place, that it is now a situation which has descended into a civil war, a catastrophe, or that Bush lied and troops died, etc. Beyond the political rhetoric, we have to imagine Senator Barack Hussein Obama's plan for Iraq, because so far he has not come forth with one except for withdrawal.
It seems the Democrats and Senator Barack Hussein Obama are saying that religious and cultural conditions in Iraq make a U. S. victory there impossible. We can't win in Iraq because the Iraqis themselves don't want what we want. The Iraqis don't want a constitutional democracy. Instead, they want to live under Sharia Law, want their dictators in power and want their women in burqas.
For the sake of the feminist agenda alone, you'd think liberals would want us to stay in Iraq. Certainly, if we withdraw our combat forces by May, a constitutional democracy will not prevail there. Senator Barack Hussein Obama's bill seems to imply that the Iraqi people are not worth our blood and treasure. We have run out of patients, he claims. Oddly, that has been what some hard-line conservatives have been arguing all along, as well.
This being the case in foreign policy, then maybe Democratic Party support for affirmative action, uncontrolled immigration from Mexico, and amnesty for illegal immigrants will not work as domestic policies. If Senator Barack Hussein Obama wants our government to withdraw from Iraq, because it overreached, then to be consistent, does he want to withdraw from the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, too?
In yet another twist, withdrawal from Iraq before victory also means withdrawal of support for Israel. As things stand now, a negotiated settlement or a withdrawal from Iraq will favor Iran at the expense of Israel. Barack Hussein Obama's bill may end up alienating the Jewish vote in the U.S., a voting block the Democrats have relied on for a long time.
Senator Barack Hussein Obama's proposed legislation to end the war in Iraq by a "De-Escalation Act" exposes contradictions at the heart of Democratic Party policies. What is even more contradictory, Senator Barack Hussein Obama's turn to the left ends as a turn to the right.
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