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| O's Tour De Farce |
| 2008-08-03 |
| By Amir Taheri TERMED a "learning" trip, Sen. Barack Obama's eight-day tour of eight nations in the Middle East and Europe turned out to be little more than a series of photo ops to enhance his international credentials. "He looked like a man in a hurry," a source close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said last week. "He was not interested in what we had to say." |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 "He gave us the impression that the last thing he wanted was for Iraq to look anything like a success for the United States," a senior Iraqi official told me. "As far as he is concerned, this is Bush's war and must end in lack of success, if not actual defeat." I hope this very astute assessment reaches the USCIT Iraqi voting community here in the United States. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-08-03 21:07 |
| #1 "He gave us the impression that the last thing he wanted was for Iraq to look anything like a success for the United States," a senior Iraqi official told me. I am shocked, shocked, to hear this. So he can't do what his antiwar base wants - declare an end to the War on Terror and the start of a period of love and peace in which "citizens of the world" build bridges between civilizations. There's a truck in the parking lot of my apartment complex with a bumper sticker reading, "World Peace by 2012: Obama for President." Saw one in the Safeway parking lot that said 2021, rather than 2012. Now that's more reasonable. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-08-03 20:37 |