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[Media Matters for America] Media Matters - Wash. Times misrepresented Obama's position on ...: Summary: The Washington Times characterized President Obama's war funding request as "the same type of supplemental war spending [he] opposed" during the Bush administration, ignoring the fact that Obama said he opposed certain supplemental spending bills in 2007 because they did not contain a timeline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

[Spin Cycle] George W. Obama?: More funds for Iraq, Afghanistan (Spin Cycle ...: President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president....

[OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] OpEdNews » Obama's Trip to Iraq - Continuing War and Occupation: This can not be accepted and only mass mobilization in opposition to Obama's imperialist policies will actually create any real change in Iraq or the rest of the world. If we fail to generate this opposition, we can look forward to many more Obama speeches where we will be told how the Iraqi people are now responsible for their own country while seeing that the U.S. is still in actual control. 

[Countercurrents.org] Iraq in Fragments By Dahr Jamail: All of the recent talk of withdrawal from Iraq is empty rhetoric indeed to most Iraqis, who see the giant “enduring” U.S. military bases spread across their country, or the U.S. “embassy,” the size of the Vatican City, in Baghdad. The gulf between the rhetoric of withdrawal and the reality on the ground spans the distance between Iraq and the United States, while the reality is pressed in the face of the Iraqi people each day the occupation continues.

[Populist Party Blog] Barack Obama’s War ”” Populist Party Blog: With Al Qaeda dispersed and Bin Laden in hiding, it is difficult to see the American purpose in invading this land of poverty and banditry, a land that has not been subdued by previous superpowers. Does Obama believe that he cannot afford not to conquer Afghanistan, that the political fallout in America from a military withdrawal might endanger his presidency?

[Care2 News Network] No Coincidences in Iraq - Care2 News Network: While the US military maintains 138,000 soldiers in Iraq, and there are over 200,000 private contractors enabling the occupation, and the president intends on keeping at least 50,000 US troops in Iraq indefinitely, Obama managed to keep a straight face whilst pressuring the Iraqi government to “take responsibility for their country” and adding that the United States has “no claim on Iraqi territory and resources."

[Creative-i] Will Obama Vacate Iraq? By Nasir Khan | Creative-i: For us the ordinary human beings, such a degree of inhumanity shown by the rulers of the United States towards the people of a great country and callous imperviousness to the suffering of so many people is hard to understand. In addition, Iraq, the cradle of human civilisation eventually fell in the hands of the American occupiers and they vandalized the ancient treasures and artifacts, which were the common heritage of all humanity.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | No Coincidences in Iraq:     All of this nice talk from President Obama, which he articulated just hours after a spate of bombings across Baghdad killed 15 Iraqis and wounded 27, was complimented by his and Bush's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who claimed that al-Qaeda in Iraq appeared to be making a "last gasp" attempt to foment sectarian violence in Baghdad. Those who have been following the news about the US occupation of Iraq closely over the last six years know all too well how many "last gasps" and "turning the corners" there have been - of which there are too many to count.

[Sterling James Estates] Iraq, the good war (It’s bad if Bush does it but good if O does ...: The left discovers there’s not much of a difference between President Obama’s position and George Bush’s position at this stage.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Iraq Sues to Shut Newspaper, TV Station in Baghdad (Fox ...: Bush’s example of keeping war funding off the books, President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion in additional “emergency” funding for the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, if approved, would bring the 2009 funding to around $150 billion and the overall costs of the two wars to nearly $1 trillion. Comments are closed.

[The Numbers] Obama in Iraq - The Numbers: Obama has a true vision and no matter what people say he will follow through with his word...Let me be clear, this country will never move forward until we learn how to be peaceful in the USA first and for peace to exist abroad -- we must start at the home front. Obama clearly took the high road and has become a driven force and a peace maker around the World.

[Soren_Dayton's blog] Another Obama budget lie: Iraq and Afghanistan - Soren_Dayton’s ...: The baseline assumes the war will be funded at high levels for the next 10 years, even though Obama is planning to bring 100000 troops home in the next 19 months. I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open- ended, giving a blank check to George Bush.

[Don Surber] Don Surber » Blog Archive » The campaign against Bush didn’t work: 1 goal ”” defeat in Iraq and humiliation for Bush ”” failed miserably. It still eats at them.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Dont just discount the fact that we have an obligation to the Iraqi people as well as the world to show leadership in how to properly execute plans which will ultimately bring about a more positive and cooperation based approach to fighting terrorist organizations around the globe. We have to get this one right if we are going to see more support from other nations on dealing with this issue.

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