RNC: The Iraq We'd Have If We'd Heeded Obama

WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an excerpt
from an Op-Ed by Bob Owens from The New York Post, and is being released today
by the Republican National Committee:

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Barack Obama is enjoying a popular jaunt through the Middle East, but if
America had heeded his judgment over the last five years, the fawning stories
that have followed him this trip might be quite different.

Imagine:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama overflew the Iraqi cities of
Baghdad and Najaf Monday, where the mass graves for an estimated 240,000
victims of sectarian violence killed since 2007 were visible even from an
altitude. ...

[M]iles away, Iranian and Saudi delegations were meeting in an emergency
summit in Kuwait City in an effort to keep the Iraqi civil war from boiling
over into open regional conflict. ...

Fortunately, of course, none of that happened. ...

If we'd listened to Obama in 2002, Saddam Hussein (or his murderous son Qusay)
would still be brutally repressing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites and
Kurds - and some of the world's most accomplished terrorists ... would still
call Iraq home. ...

If we'd listened to him in 2005-2006, when things were at their worst, then
the nightmare scenario might well be playing out: an open Iraqi civil war,
verging on a wider regional war, with Saudi Arabia and Iran backing different
sides in Iraq. I doubt Obama would be flying to Baghdad. ...

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