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 [Colorado Media Matters] Right-wing radio talkers promoted Schaffer's distortion of Udall ...: Mark Udall (D), introduced in advance of the Iraq War as one that Udall offered "to declare war on Iraq." Additionally, they did not challenge Schaffer's false claim -- made in comparing Udall's resolution to the one Congress adopted, .

 [TPM Election Central] McCain: "Today We Know Senator Obama Was Wrong": And I note that he is speaking today about his plans for Iraq and Afghanistan before he has even left, before he has talked to General Petraeus, before he has seen the progress in Iraq, and before he has set foot in Afghanistan for the first time. In my experience, fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around: first you assess the facts on the ground, then you present a new strategy.

 [Liberty Street] Obama’s Security Speech: If you read the two speeches together, it’s striking how much Obama focusses on understanding our foreign policy goals not just one by one, but in terms of their relation to one another, and to our broader interests: the costs of the war in Iraq to Afghanistan, to our military, and to our broader interests; the importance of having a good Pakistan policy to Afghanistan, terrorism, and nuclear nonproliferation;

[THE HOT JOINTS] Washington Post Calls Obama’s Iraq Speech “Irrational”: The real difference between John McCain and Barack Obama is that Obama views the Iraq war exclusively through a political lens. While McCain looks at it from a national security point of view without regard to politics.

[Stryker Brigade News] IA Soldiers Provide for the Future of Iraq: To help orphaned children in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, the 36th Brigade, 9th Iraqi army division combined efforts with 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” Multi-National Division - Baghdad and developed a program called Children of God (Anbag Alah).

[The Redhunter] Obama Wrong on Iraq - Again: After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces. That would not be a precipitous withdrawal.

[Pros and Cons] “Looks like the jig’s up for ”¦”: Since January, hundreds of thousands of us pushed Congress to stand up to President Bush’s proposed treaty with Iraq, which would have tied the next President’s hands and made it much harder to get out. This week, the Washington Post reported that that agreement has fallen through””Iraqi leaders are putting their feet down and demanding a much shorter agreement.2

 [Patrick mcilheran:<br> Right On] Obama has always favored war with Eastasia: He still cannot bring himself to say that the mission in Iraq is success, even when success is clearly within our grasp. For Obama the mission is, and since his presidential announcement in February 2007 has been, to end the war, even if it means an American loss of epic proportions.

 [Genocide Today] There are WMDs in Iraq. Ours.: "We saw all the colours of the rainbow coming out of the exploding American shells and missiles," Ali Sarhan, a 50-year-old teacher who lived through the two U.S. sieges of 2004 told IPS. "I saw bodies that turned into bones and coal right after they were exposed to bombs that we learned later to be phosphorus.

 [William's Weblog] Thoughts on the Iraq War.: Well i personally think we kinda screwed this one up.  Although we’re still in Germany aren’t we.  I think we went in for the right reasons but we had the wrong intelligence.  Now we’re stuck there and can’t just up and leave.  I do believe we’re doing the right thing there now by trying to help the country rebuild, we could have just left and then bombed the place back to the stone age whenever a bunch of terrorists took up residency there.  I’m glad we never took that route.  I won’t go into everything i think about this war because some won’t understand and i think it may be redundant on my part.  I want our soldiers to come home, but i want them to come home as winners.  I want our country safe, and i want us safe in the right way.

[2parse/blog] A Liberal Defends George W. Bush’s Legacy: Even assuming the best of intentions, the Iraq war has proved to be a strategic blunder that has empowered Iran, destabilized the region, inspired more extremism, degraded our military, and only achieved the removal of minor antagonist.

[blog.zakstrassberg.com] Political Nonsense!: Since January, hundreds of thousands of us pushed Congress to stand up to President Bush’s proposed treaty with Iraq, which would have tied the next President’s hands and made it much harder to get out. This week, the Washington Post reported that that agreement has fallen through””Iraqi leaders are putting their feet down and demanding a much shorter agreement.2

 [Tonywalther's Weblog] Bush as Hoover, our army, our beer”¦: As I was waiting in the doctor’s office today, I thumbed through the printed version of U.S. News and World Report and spotted an item that suggested that if elected Obama might consider a Supreme Court nomination (when the chance arose) for Hillary Clinton. I check the web every day and I hadn’t seen that one.

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