We've commented before on Barack Obama's evolving positions regarding the Iraq war. Initially a strong opponent of military action in Iraq, by July 2004 Obama was saying that at this stage there was not much difference between his position on the war and that of President Bush. Earlier that year, on April 5, 2004, Obama surprised an interviewer by denying that he had advocated a troop withdrawal. As can be seen below, he stated, "we’ve got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly and I don’t think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that."
What, then, prompted Obama's insistence that we resist "artificial" withdrawal dates and finish the job? Fernandez suggests that the explanation may reside in Obama's relationship with his friend and backer the crooked Tony Rezko, who in April 2004 was attempting to secure multi-million-dollar contracts to build and operate a power plant in Kurdish Iraq. |
Sorry. It's been a long day and I just couldn't resist that title.
RTWT. Wretchard rocks on this one.
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