Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:15:13 PM
Link via Karl, who wonders what Obama could possibly mean here after his stirring testament at Saddleback to what a “real bad person” Saddam Hussein was.
The Illinois senator’s opposition to the Iraq war, which
his comment clearly referenced, is well known. But this was the first
time the Democratic presidential candidate has made a comparison
between the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Russia’s recent military activity
in Georgia.
“We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,”
Obama told a crowd of supporters in Virginia. “They can’t charge into
other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on
that point.”
Here’s a newsflash, champ: Russia’s foreign minister did indeed invoke a case of U.S. military action in his Journal op-ed
the other day, but it wasn’t Bush and the Middle East that he had in
mind. I don’t begrudge the guy his leftist cant, but at least put some
meat on the bone. How, precisely, would Russian actions have been different if we hadn’t invaded Iraq? Georgia and Ossetia have been fighting
since Obama was in his 20s. Are we playing another game of Time Machine
here, in which the war somehow becomes a justification even for
misfortunes that preceded it?