Obama Said U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Were Just Air-Raiding Villages and Killing Children - Aug. 2007




In last Tuesday's Democratic Debate, Barack Obama admitted that he has not called a single meeting of a Senate Oversight subcommittee on Afghanistan that he chairs. He used the excuse that he has been "pretty busy running a campaign."

Now, his failure to be concerned enough about Afghanistan to call at least one meeting is going to really jump up and bite him. A quote published in the Washington Post of something Obama said last August (2007), denigrating the work of our brave U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, has surfaced:

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Even the Democrat-friendly Washington Post said in the article about this comment, that "remarks he made later could add fuel to the criticism against him." They knew then that this statement would come back to haunt him.

Now, if Obama has the gall to accuse our troops of "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians" in Afghanistan, don't you think he should have been concerned enough to at least call a meeting of his oversight subcommittee to look into it? The evidence is mounting that Obama is not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. I feel confident we have only seen the tip of the iceberg - the iceberg that just may sink the U.S.S. Obamamania.

Hat Tip: Redstate.com


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