Obama's Prophetic Statement on Iraq

I ran across this quote from Barack Obama over at Faithful Progressive. It dates from 2002 and I think it bears hearing again.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.” -Barack Obama, October 2002

This exactly where we find ourselves, except no success is in sight. Largely because we've entered a war we should never have started and because when we entered it we had no plan, except to see how fast we could get to Baghdad! We got there quickly, but that was about the last good news we've heard.

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