Obama Still Opposes the Surge

...and gets an earful from the experts over at ThreatsWatch for his reasons. Here's a tidbit.

Presidential Candidate Obama’s statements in and about Iraq in the past 24 hours have been nothing less than shameless and disgraceful. While we strive to avoid political discussion at ThreatsWatch, criticism of his words transcends rank political partisanship if for no other reason than his claims are simply and flatly untrue, made in a war zone, during a time of war and while running to become the Commander in Chief of US Military Forces. This simply cannot stand unchallenged.

Not only does Senator Obama apparently think the Anbar Awakening and the Shi’a militia stand-downs that have occurred are somehow separate developments from the surge, which is a remarkable feat of logic in and of itself, but he is implying that they are part and parcel indigenous to what his ‘plan’ for ‘political progress’ would have afforded.

There's lots more at ThreatsWatch.

I watched the video of his interview with Katie Couric and was stunned. I think even die hard Obamazombie Katie was stunned. She kept asking him over and over to clarify his position and I think the best he came up with was, "I was NOT wrong, you dodo-head!"

My favorite part of this whole news cycle has been Obama's assertion that General Patreus is not thinking strategically the way he is. You know General Patreus. He's the new head of CENTCOM. Nope, nothing strategic there.

Unreal.

Update: The Puppy Blender points us to this little bit of good news from Basra (with lots more at the link):

There is an interesting piece of graffiti on a bridge near Basra. A fleeing militiaman has scrawled “We'll be back”; underneath an Iraqi soldier has scribbled in reply “And we'll be waiting for you”.

Update 2: The Washington Post is mystified by Obama's position.

Yet Mr. Obama's account of his strategic vision remains eccentric. He insists that Afghanistan is "the central front" for the United States, along with the border areas of Pakistan. But there are no known al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, and any additional U.S. forces sent there would not be able to operate in the Pakistani territories where Osama bin Laden is headquartered. While the United States has an interest in preventing the resurgence of the Afghan Taliban, the country's strategic importance pales beside that of Iraq, which lies at the geopolitical center of the Middle East and contains some of the world's largest oil reserves. If Mr. Obama's antiwar stance has blinded him to those realities, that could prove far more debilitating to him as president than any particular timetable.