Obama Response to McCain Understanding of "Pre-Surge"
By Sam Graham-Felsen - May 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm EDT
The McCain campaign released the following
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Presurge.html">statement in defense of Senator McCain’s comments that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ke9Q-qXg4">“we have drawn down to pre-surge levels” in Iraq:
Clearly John Kerry and Barack Obama have very little understanding of troop levels, but considering Barack Obama hasn’t been to Iraq in 873 days and has never had a one on one meeting with General Petraeus, it isn’t a surprise to anyone that he demonstrates weak leadership. What informed people understand, John McCain included, is that American troops are not even close to Surge levels. Three of the five Army ‘Surge’ brigades have been withdrawn and additional Marines that were initially deployed for the ‘Surge’ have come home as well – the remaining two brigades will be home in July. Talk about a political stunt, it’s sending out campaign surrogates to parse words about a topic Barack Obama has no experience with, and has shown zero interest in learning about.
In response Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan released the following statement...
The McCain campaign still can’t explain why John McCain could be so clearly and factually wrong in stating that our troops are at ‘pre-surge’ levels. They are not, and anyone who wants to be Commander-in-Chief should know better before launching divisive political attacks. Once again, Senator McCain has shown that he is far more interested in stubbornly making the case for continuing a failed policy in Iraq than in getting the facts right.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/">Click here or more on Barack Obama's plan to turn the page on the Bush-McCain Iraq policy.
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