Obama: Shift Troops to Fight al-Qaida

OELWEIN, Iowa -- The U.S. should shift troops from Iraq to pursue al-Qaida along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday.

He said President Bush's war-fighting policies have left the United States at greater risk from terrorists. The first-term Illinois senator said decisions by the Republican president had allowed Osama bin Laden and his deputies to elude capture


"We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we're on the wrong battlefield," Obama said. "America must urgently begin deploying from Iraq and take the fight more effectively to the enemy's home by destroying al-Qaida's leadership along the Afghan-Pakistan border, eliminating their command and control networks and disrupting their funding."




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/14/AR2007071400624.html

We should have gone after the people who attacked us instead of fighting Bush's war.

where they reside. A simple,common sense decision. America needs this kind of thinking and leadership. Not the kind with agendas and strings attached.