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The cornerstone of Barack Obama's foreign policy commentary is that he opposed the liberation of Iraq. Yet nowhere has he offered a credible argument against the war in Iraq and no one has ever bothered to question him about it. For that matter no credible explanation against the war in Iraq has ever been given by anyone, and as is so common with the Mainstream Media no one is taken to task for opposing American victory.

When asked if he stood by his rash advocacy of invading Pakistan, a US ally, he replied in the affirmative, then when pressed that his views were in support of the Bush Doctrine, he tried to add a qualifier that he was going after "known" threats. Therein lies a part of Obama's problem. He doesn't know what the threats are. He opposed the Iraq war even though it was against the most well-known and strongest sanction state of Islamo-Arab terrorism and a state known to be developing N-B-C weaponry. The whole boilerplate that "no WMDs were found in Iraq" ignores what was found there - more than enough documentation and pieces to show Iraq was indeed building WMDs, and Obama's frequent claim that the Iraq war has been a good recruiting tool for terrorists is not backed by any realworld evidence; on the contrary the wholesale formation of area alliances against terrorists puts the lie to Obama's whole view of the world.

Obama has talked about using diplomacy and working with other nations; he talks about training Iraqis to take over defense of their country. Yet what does he think the US has been doing all this time? Moreover, can he name a single instance where an enemey bent on conquest as Islamo-Arab imperialism is was ever neutralized by diplomacy? The endless failure of the ongoing Middle Eastern "peace" process stems from the refusal to fully defeat the enemy.

Then Obama insanely tried to blame the murder of Benazir Bhutto on the Iraq war, never mind that it was perpetrated by the very Al Qaida force the US has been fighting since before the liberation of Iraq.

The utter shallowness of Barack Obama continues to leak out, and rational thinking can only wonder what people like Oprah Winfrey can possibly believe when they endorse a foolish rookie senator who speaks without substance.

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