Handy Guide to Obama being consistently against the Iraq War invasion

There are attempts to marginalize Barack Obama's consistent position against the Iraq War invasion that keep popping up as talking points. Essentially, those points are flawed and lack an honest injection of using the full quotes that Obama made. Cherry-picking quotes can make what someone said completely be something else. This article will present what some say Obama said with the counterpoint showing what Obama actually said. When someone says his consistent position is a "fairy tale", ask yourself why that person has a history of being a liar and truth contortionist.

In 2002, Barack Obama gave his famous speech regarding how he did not support the Iraq War invasion. Here is a segment of that speech that shows his leadership to see what has exactly happened:



In July of 2004, Obama stated his position on the Iraq War in the New York Times:



Oddly, the Clintons and others have painted Obama as not being sure how he would have voted by slicing integral parts of his statement by using the ruse:

"What would I have done? I don't know."

I'm sure they think they are clever with editing out key parts of Obama's statement, but it is clearly dishonest and manipulative.

In July of 2004, Obama stated his consistent position on the Iraq War in the Chicago Tribune:



Again, the Clintons and others on a mission to distort Obama's position on the Iraq War simply shave off the critical points he made by saying:
"There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage."

Media Matters, which goes into how Tim Russert and the Clintons have misrepresented Obama's position by slicing off critical points in his statements on the Iraq War, points out how Obama told Wolf Blitzer his consistent position against the Iraq War:



When it comes to funding for the troops who now are in harm's way in Iraq due to those who voted for the Iraq War Resolution, which Senator Byrd called a "free pass" for Bush to invade Iraq, Obama has made statements which back up his consistent claim:



More information on Barack Obama's stance and positions on the Iraq War can be viewed here:
http://action.barackobama.com/page/content/iraq/

If you want to see Obama's position on the Iraq War in 2002, there are a couple video links.

Interview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzmXy226po

Segment of 2002 speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUV69LZbCNQ

For the full speech in 2002 in text version:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Barack_Obama's_Iraq_Speech

But he fits right in with Chicago Barry's paradigm!

You are out of ammo.

take a hike!

That shows just how good I am. You need the native Flash file? The ProTools files?

Is this over your little head?

same ole, same ole... from zooch!

Thinking that I took credit for a video that I did and somehow thinking that I couldn't be capable of producing such a video is actually a complement coming from you.

Tell me what you liked about it. Ask me anything. Oh heck. Here's how it was done.

I started off with the text for the music soundtrack. Then I recorded the tracks in ProTools (I have a ProTools studio). I found the Presidential "Hail To The Chief" theme as well as "Taps" and integrated those tracks with some effects and added some synthesizer tracks (I have 5 keyboards and other instruments) and then my voice, which I applied some filters to.

Then the soundtrack was brought into Flash, where I painstakingly synced the text to the soundtrack "points" after add ing Reagan quote (The bombing in 5 minutes) at the beginning. Once that was done and tweaked, I made it a Flash file and have that online (www.awolcowboy.com/reagan) with an MP3 audio of the song.

Then I exported the Flash file as an MP4 file to upload to YouTube. I have several other animations online as well using the similar production sequence.

Out of ammo again, I see...

:rofl:

Have a good weekend.

You pretty much owned tellurian there. Well done sir. :)

I don't know who Ignored is in this sub-thread, but s/he sounds like a dick.

that his links are wrong and don't support Baracks statements, I'm perfectly willing to look at them. Hillary has been sound biting what Barack and Edwards both say by the way. The whole Reagan thing is sound bited. How nice and fair is that?!

Enjoy the beverages down the hall. Flak jackets are in the armor room.

In 2004, Sen. Obama said he didn’t know how he would have voted on the Iraq War resolution.
‘When asked about Senators Kerry and Edwards' votes on the Iraq war, Obama said, "I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports,’ Mr. Obama said. ‘What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.’
In 2004, Sen. Obama also said there was little difference between his position and George Bush’s position on Iraq -

In a meeting with Chicago Tribune reporters at the Democratic National Convention, Obama said, "On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago. <...> There's not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage." (Chicago Tribune, 07/27/04)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/11/22132/7237/851/435436

We know that Hillary and Edwards votes for Bush to go to war are unimportant now that Obama has said he wanted to be a Reagan while he was growing up.

Get your priorities straight!
:sarcasm:

Has he voted for or against the add-ons to the original $87 billion?

"It's all Bush's and Chuck Hagel's fault".

Fair enough.

are not nearly as important as the interpretations posted here by many. Isn't it funny? So much for a 'reality based community'.
thanks for all the links. I'm sure they will come in handy.

I was just reading an ad by Ron Paul in our local community rag that claims Hillary and Obama voted to go to war and that Obama coauthored the Patriot Act.

I know our boy is gifted and has skills but, damn, he wasn't even in the Senate when that sh*t went down.

The truth is out there if people are inclined to consider it. Thanks for making that endeavor a little easier. Others are welcome to believe the fairy tale de jour propagated by detractors.

To the Greatest Page. ;)

The truth is like a hammer. I think I have a few in my basement as backup.

To his credit, he didn't vote Present, even though he skipped out on many votes.

OK. So people are saying he "voted exactly the same" as Hillary Clinton, yet you are alluding to the "fact" that he never voted?

Put down the pipe.

He's continually voted to continue funding the Iraq war.

It's not just once, it's three times, in this exchange. He doesn't clarify or challenge Russert on the quotes, he tries to excuse them as political-based maneuvering.

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MR. RUSSERT: You were not in the Senate in October of 2002. You did give a speech opposing the war. But Senator Clinton’s campaign will say since you’ve been a senator there’s been no difference in your record. And other critics will say that you’ve not been a leader against the war, and they point to this: In July of ‘04, Barack Obama, “I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don’t know,” in terms of how you would have voted on the war. And then this: “There’s not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.” That was July of ‘04. And this: “I think” there’s “some room for disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war.” It doesn’t seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have voted for it.

SEN. OBAMA: Now, Tim, that first quote was made with an interview with a guy named Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS during the convention when we had a nominee for the presidency and a vice president, both of whom had voted for the war. And so it, it probably was the wrong time for me to be making a strong case against our party’s nominees’ decisions when it came to Iraq.

The issue is precisely what Russert and others have done to cherry-pick the quotes to distort his record.

Perhaps Obama could have answered the question by throwing Russert's tricks back at him.

was against the misbegotten War ON Iraq from the beginning ..that's why I like him. And why I don't like hillary.

That was the beginning of why I don't like hillary but the way she and her ass of a spouse have degraded themselves further than I thought possible, in retrospect..and her surrogates on DU have consistently undermined her campaign with feeble attacks and blatant lies..I know those thoughts I had about hilary in 2002 were dead on.