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Obama's Ratings on Iraq Up After Speech, but Most Believe War Will Go On
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's poll numbers for his handling of Iraq have gone up following his Oval Office speech declaring the U.S. combat mission at an end, but an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the war wasn't worth fighting and the conflict in that country is not over, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Sept. 1-2. (Story, poll). Fifty-seven percent said they approved of Obama's handling of Iraq while 41 percent disapproved compared to mid-July when the public was split at 49 percent each. Eighty percent believe the war is not over. The question is not clear as to whether ...
Biden Gives George W. Bush Some Credit for Iraq Surge Success
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPressed for an answer and choosing his words carefully, Vice President Joe Biden gave credit to former President George W. Bush for the success of the 2007 "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq, which Biden said arguably made possible a political transition and the recent withdrawal of American combat forces. At first, Biden allowed only that President Obama in his Iraq speech Tuesday night had "acknowledged President Bush's contribution," PBS said. But when "NewsHour's" Margaret Warner asked for something more specifi on the role of the previous occupant of the White House, Biden said: "If you ...
President Obama's New 'Thank You' Video to Troops Comes Under Fire
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Consider it a pre-emptive strike: Today, just four days before the official end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama released on YouTube a short video of himself thanking the troops. Many presidents past have taken it upon themselves to thank the soldiers for their service using soaring rhetoric and lofty praise, and so in that sense, Obama is no different. But there remains one big problem with his expression of gratitude, at least so far as some right-leaning pundits see it: Not only could it be confused with a hawkish endorsement of the war effort he ...
Last US Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- They're coming home -- early. On Wednesday evening in America, the Web lit up with the news that the final designated combat brigade, made up of some 4,000 U.S. soldiers, was leaving Iraq two weeks ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline set by President Obama. The historic moment, as MSNBC noted, effectively "... [Brings] to a close the active combat phase of a 7˝-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead." Of course, as the ...
Are US Officials Putting Orwellian Spin on Iraq Troop Withdrawal?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." That's George Orwell, who New York University history professor Hannah Gurman writes would be having "a field day" with the spin now coming from the U.S. Ministry of Information regarding troop pullouts from Iraq. "He could not have invented a more Orwellian tale than the actual story of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq," she writes in a provocative essay for ...
President Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Speech: 'Mission Accomplished 2'?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Talk about a tough crowd. Hours before President Barack Obama was set to give a speech proudly announcing the withdrawal of "all combat troops in Iraq" by the end of August, commentators around the Web had already thoroughly chastised him for his pre-released remarks. Though the text of the president's speech steered notably clear of the "mission accomplished" lingo of his predecessor -- emphasizing that the American "commitment in Iraq is changing," not ending, with some 50,000 troops expected to remain on the ground come September, down from a high of 177,000 in January, ...
Taliban Endorses Petraeus
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyIn the United States, many are confident that Gen. David Petraeus is the man to lead the effort in Afghanistan. After all, he was the architect of the "surge" in Iraq, which is widely considered to be successful despite continuing sectarian strife and doubts that the country could hold onto security gains without American troops. But Petraeus has another fan -- the Taliban. Petraeus "is not smarter than McChrystal," Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Ahmed Yusuf said Thursday. "Also, his losing consciousness last week in an investigative hearing before the members of the U.S. Congress brought ...
Obama Replaces McChrystal With Petraeus: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama announced today that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus. McChrystal's ouster was precipitated by a now-infamous Rolling Stone article published online Tuesday which depicted "The Runaway General" and his staff making critical comments of Obama administration officials. McChrystal had been in charge in Afghanistan for the past year, under which time the situation on the ground had continued to deteriorate into violence and civil instability, despite a ...
Sarah Palin Never Told Bristol About the 'Birds and the Bees'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAmong the more compelling bits of background information teen mom Bristol Palin reveals about her famous family in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar is the fact neither of her parents, Todd and Sarah Palin, ever gave her the "sex talk." "It's not like we all sat down and were like, 'Alright, here's the birds and the bees,'" Palin told the magazine. "Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn't doing anything. And it was a shock for us all." Bristol's pregnancy by then-boyfriend Levi Johnston caused a sensation on the presidential campaign trail back in 2008, especially since she was only ...
Opinion: Seven Years Later, Iraq War Bearing Fruit
By not in system - AOL News(March 19) -- Less than two weeks ago, 12 million Iraqis went to the polls to vote for a new parliament. The results are still trickling in, and the process of choosing a new president, prime minister and cabinet may well take months. In haste to report on a slowly developing story and befuddled by the chaos that is Iraqracy, some observers are rushing to declare the vote a potentially fatal blow to hopes for success in Iraq. There is no doubt that progress in Iraq remains, as Gen. David Petraeus constantly points out, fragile and reversible. Bad outcomes from this election that could ...
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