As for Barack Obama, he made an interesting statement that answered directly critics who believe that he and other anti-war Democrats want the US to fail in Iraq. “We all have the greatest interest in seeing a successful resolution to Iraq,” he forcefully stated. “All of us do.”
I think this statement was later clarified when Obama suggested that lowering the bar in defining what a successful resolution to Iraq should be .. maintaining the current status quo. It was quite amusing to watch Obama attempt to get Petraeus and Crocker to agree with him that leaving Iraq as “messy” could be defined as a successful resolution.
I just wish they would have had the camera on Boxer when Obama said that if Iraq was talking to Iran, then we should be talking to them too, especially since he used her triad about A-jad being welcomed with a kiss on the cheek by Maliki.
But Obama seemed skeptical about the involvement of Iran in forming its own “Special Groups” and militias.
That was only because if he accepts the facts put in front of him as to Iran’s involvement in killing Americans in Iraq, he can’t rightly justify sitting down and having a chat with them as the POTUS, so he has to deny the evidence because it conflicts with one of his campaign platform issues.
