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Obama's Paucity of Judgment in Iraq

McCain's camp takes the gloves off for a moment. This is a complete take-down of Obama's judgment.

"He refuses to credit Gen. Petraeus and Gen. Odierno for their leadership; he disparages their strategic judgment and trumpets his own," Scheunemann began.

"What is Sen. Obama's judgment based on? His tenure at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when he did not hold a single substantive hearing? His years in the Illinois state Senate or as a community organizer?

Or is it based on his international experience gleaned while he was in junior high school in Indonesia or on a college spring break trip in Pakistan? Or is it based on the memos and briefing papers from his 300 foreign policy advisers?"

"The reality," he continued, "is that Sen. Obama's judgment on the most important national security questions facing our country in 2007 was wrong, and it demonstrates both his inexperience and his ideological rigidity."

I'm genuinely curious what Obama would say his judgment is based on. Smarts? Plain logic? Certainly not expertise.

Also, he says he would still oppose the surge if he had to do it again.

Terrible policies thy name is Obama.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).