De Ja Vu: Obama & Bush II

There is really no surprise about this essay's title, because in the battle for the most recent Democratic Party nomination for president, Barack Obama hedged about whether troops should be immediately pulled out of Iraq, and some could have took his slick answers and speeches about the war either way, but those who paid attention most astutely knew that he wasn't going to end the war as soon as he took office. He campaigned as Bush-lite on war, and the Democrats chose him over Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel and Bill Richardson, anyway, all of whom were more forthright than Obama in their positions on ending the war in Iraq. So those who thought they were voting for a peace candidate can see no real difference between Obama and Bush II on foreign policy other than Obama coming across better in speeches.

Why doesn't President Obama just pull the troops out of Iraq? That has also become a good question for the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater of war given Secretary Gates' and the U.S. generals' ineptitude and negligence in that region as the continuing civilian casualty toll in both of those countries doesn't let up. This is causing increasing dissension against our nation in the region, which makes the entire war effort for our troops more difficult. Obama is beginning to look more like LBJ and Bush, Jr., everyday. Time to pull out of Iraq, immediately, and to either catch OBL or begin pulling out of Afghanistan, too.

[First posted on our "Commoner" blog on 6/25/09; revised on 6/26/09.]

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