Barack Obama to “Refine” His Iraq War Withdrawal Promise

 Oh the ever changing positions of Barack Obama, they will make your head spin. Barack Obama promised the far left that he would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq immediately upon his inauguration and that all troops would be home within 16 months after he became president.

 Now he is saying that he will “refine” his position and may not bring the troops home even as he still promises to bring them home. I know I am writing in knots (if that makes any sense either) but Barack Obama twists and turns in the wind so much that it is hard to keep track of any of his various stances on the issues.

I’ve always said that the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability,” he said. “That assessment has not changed. And when I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I’m sure I’ll have more information and will continue to refine my policies

 So now he will meet with the people who actually know what is going on and “refine” his position? Needless to say this flip-flop on ending the war regardless of what the people on the ground say has infuriated the far left. Obama’s base.

 He had to “clarify” his statement about refining his Iraq war position just a few hours later.

“We’re going to try this again,” Obama said. “Apparently, I wasn’t clear enough this morning on my position with respect to the war in Iraq.”

“Let me be as clear as I can be,” he said. “I intend to end this war. My first day in office, I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in, and I will give them a new mission, and that is to end this war – responsibly, deliberately, but decisively. And I have seen no information that contradicts the notion that we can bring our troops out safely at a pace of one to two brigades a month, and again, that pace translates into having our combat troops out in 16 months’ time.”

 He took both sides of the issue in a matter of hours to try to please everybody, hoping nobody would call him out. And they won’t, Barack Obama gets a free pass on all of his flip-flops by the mainstream media. This is no exception. Why else would he so blatantly tell two different groups two different things within hours of each other? The media is not doing their job. Obama skates on issue like this.

 People were foolish to believe that Barack Obama was just going to pull the troops out of Iraq as soon as he became president, but they did. So now Obama is trying to break the news to them that he will not be able to deliver on this promise, even as he is still promising to withdraw from Iraq.

 The man is shameless, the voters are blind, and the media is incompetent. It makes for a scary situation.

 The problem is that we are winning a war that Obama had hoped we would have lost by know and he is having trouble dealing with it. Just give us your position Barack, how can you be trusted to lead if you just try to capitulate to everybody? Sometimes leadership means making some people unhappy. Grow a set and stick to a position, and then live or die with that position.

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