In the wake of Obama's vote against the capitulation resolution that would fund the war till September, the Republican Noise Machine is in full swing attack mode targeting presidential front runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Despite the claim that Obama's vote was to defund the war, Obama comes back swinging...
In a press release Obama responsonds to statements made by Senator John McCain and former Governor Mitt Romney on last night’s vote.
This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’s civil war. Governor Romney and Senator McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not.
In one sentence he denounces his vote as defending, and in another he points the blame on McCain and Romney for blindly supporting Bush's failed policy.
Continuing:
And if there ever was a reflection of that it's the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.
Then he uses the opportunity to bash McCain and his recent Iraq photo op. Clearly the war in Iraq is progressing when you need only 100 armored guards to walk in a market in Iraq.
Governor Romney and Senator McCain are still supporting a war that has cost us thousands of lives, made us less safe in the world, and resulted in a resurgence of al-Qaeda. It is time to end this war so that we can redeploy our forces to focus on the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and all those who plan to do us harm.
Then Obama drives the point home that Romney and McCain continue to support this failed policy; that a no vote is not a surrender to al Qaeda, that a yes vote would continue to makes us less safe from al Qaeda.
Update [2007-5-25 15:26:30 by enarjay]:
Update: McCain gives Obama Flak (thanks doberg )
"U.S. Senator John McCain has issued the following in response to a statement by Sen. Barack Obama:
"While Senator Obama's two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me to believe that we must give this new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be catastrophic to our nation's security.
"By the way, Senator Obama, it's a 'flak' jacket, not a 'flack' jacket."
golfclap
This new strategy is simply putting more bodies in Iraq to be slaughtered -- Month after month it gets worse. Nice try Johnny..
Update2:
I am also reminded that Flack and Flak are interchangeable.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/...
Update [2007-5-25 17:37:25 by enarjay]:
I'm also told that McCain voted to cut funds previously.
And by the way Senator McCain, you voted against funding our troops when [he] opposed the last war-funding bill that Democrats sent to the President.
Checkmate!
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/...