Barak Hussein Obama
My feelings about Barack Hussein Obama is that he’s just your average leftist Democrat. I mean c’mon. The most recent hardball exchange with the Clinton camp is evidence that his new tone and civility is all talk and no walk.
Democrats seem intent on achieving full McGovernization. The anti-war anti-american party seem blind to the history and character of the American people.
Opposition to Vietnam War
Although he voted in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, McGovern later became a strong critic of defense spending, and was an early and vocal opponent of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, often criticizing the policies of fellow Democrat, President Lyndon Johnson. And he was just as vocal with the Senate’s “war hawks”, such as when he assailed his colleagues for not supporting an amendment offered by Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield for a complete troop withdrawal from Vietnam: “Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave . . .” he exhorted. “This chamber reeks of blood. . . . [I]t does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed”, and he blamed his colleagues for having contributed to “that human wreckage all across our land — young men without legs or arms or genitals or faces — or hopes.” And he dismissed a suggestion by powerful Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis, “I’m tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to fight. If he wants to use American ground troops in Cambodia, let him lead the charge himself.” ~wikipedia
Sounds familiar. Obama has been doing his best to out-slander the war and American Troops. “Obama regrets saying soldiers’ lives ‘wasted’”
“We are now in the midst of a war that never should have been authorized, never should have been waged,” Obama told a crowd of close to 3,000 packed into the gymnasium at the University of New Hampshire. “Unless we bring that war to a close, we cannot deal with those other problems I just mentioned,” such as education and healthcare, Obama added, his words nearly drowned out by the wild applause that followed his denouncement of the war.
Obama also cautioned against a US intervention in Iran, saying he was skeptical of reports by the Bush administration that Iran is helping to supply weapons to insurgents in Iraq.
“I don’t doubt that there are some weapons coming over from Iran into Iraq. I have no doubt Iran has a history of sponsoring terrorism and doing mischief,” Obama said. But “I am less persuaded by what we’re seeing over the last couple of weeks, and that is that the intervention of Iran into Iraq somehow justifies what seems to be a mounting case for intervention or even forays into Iran,” he said, drawing applause. ~boston.com
There’s probably not enough, “sacrifice,” to make this war valid or our troops lives worth something.
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