{"id":472,"date":"2008-07-23T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=472"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:36:07","slug":"2020-foresight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"20\/20 Foresight"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that a vote for<\/em> the surge in Iraq and its strategy changes would dramatically reduce the amount of violence and deaths, giving the Iraqi government breathing room to get 15 of 18 benchmarks completed, would you vote for it?  If it was a certainty?<\/p>\n

Obama wouldn’t have<\/em>.  The man of Hope and Change(tm) would have kept the status quo.<\/p>\n

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That, ladies and gentlemen, is playing politics with the war and the lives of our soldiers.  Bailing out at all costs — big costs, to Iraq if not to us — is irresponsibility at its highest.  That’s not the kind of man I want as President.<\/p>\n

[tags]Barack Obama,Iraq surge[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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