Following a “day spent witnessing the reduction in violence in Iraq,” when asked in Baghdad yesterday by ABC News’ Terry Moran, “what Iraq would look like now if Obama’s policy of withdrawing in the face of the violence had been implemented,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) responded
That is a hard thing to speculate,… The Sunnis might have made the same decisions at that time. The Shii’as might have made some similar decisions based on political calculation. There was ethnic cleansing in Baghdad that actually took the violence level down. And so, as I said before. Nobody has a crystal ball. If we did you just hire the guy with the crystal ball.
h/t FF
Update: Is Obama endorsing ethnic cleansing? Let’s see… we have Serbia, Darfur, Bosnia, Chile, Japan, China, and oh so many more…
Obama endorses ethnic cleansing? coming to a city near you….. in 2009.
It’s so nice to know that Barack Obama thinks ethnic
cleansing is a good thing. I wonder if he is consulting
with Odinga?
If he keeps saying things like that, we won’t get to find out how much dirt the opposition has on him–they won’t need it. Oh, the loss to the blog world!
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What in Obama’s response leads any of you to think that he SUPPORTS ethnic cleansing?! Ethnic cleansing HAPPENED in the region. That is a fact. He was stating that fact, and making the connection that it caused a reduction in violence. Obama would never ADVOCATE ethnic cleansing. Are you people serious? Just because someone acknowledges that the Holocaust happened would NEVER lead me to believe that they endorsed it!!!