"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." -- Confucius

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Well, not 'now now'.

Obama-Biden Reservations Confirmed

The Obama campaign spent more than five hours on Monday attempting to figure out the best refutation of the explosive New York Post report that quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that Barack Obama during his July visit to Baghdad demanded that Iraq not negotiate with the Bush Administration on the withdrawal of American troops. Instead, he asked that they delay such negotiations until after the presidential handover at the end of January.


On one hand, I'm throughly outraged by this. On the other hand, not only am I not surprised by it, I find it pretty damned funny. Not because these two hacks are playing politics with the war, but because the suckers who bought into the "elect us and we'll get out of Iraq" bravo-sierra in 2006 are eagerly swallowing the same line in 2008. Newsflash: these are the same people who voted for going into Iraq when it was politically advantageous, then did everything they could to undermine the war effort when it was politically advantageous and now that the war is almost over, succeeding in spite of their machinations, they want to take credit for the troops coming home with honor but delaying it because it's politically advantageous to not have them home before they can position themselves to milk it for all it's worth.

Scumbags.