As has been pointed out, had it not been for the leadership of President Bush and his flexibility to change course and go for the surge, there wouldn’t BE a safer Iraq for B-Ho to visit.
In 2007 Obama introduced legislation calling for American troops to be pulled out of Iraq by March of this year. He opposed the surge. Called for us to cut and run.
Now, ironically, he calls for a surge in Afghanistan. He pretends we conduct war there in a vacuum without regard to NATO, and our other allies. And he pretends we are doing nothing there.
He calls for “getting” UBL, which we continue to attempt to do. He calls for getting tough with Pakistan when we are already working several fronts (diplomatic and otherwise) in that country. In other words, he’s spending all kinds of time saying “me too” in Iraq without the political downside suffered by those who early captured the vision, saw the need, and lead, fought, bled and died for security in Iraq.
It would have been better to have backed these moves, which are better for national and regional security, when they occurred. Obama’s “beliefs” are fungible.
Were it not for US and allied troops in Iraq who would possess that 537 metric tons of yellowcake right now? Or Saddam’s leftover bio and germ warfare agents? How about the nuke program he put on hold? Where did he take the WMD UN inspectors knew about in 1998 but were gone in 2003?
Now B-Ho takes a meeting with General Patraeus. He never said one peep about the move on dot commie ad about General Betray Us. He just took their money and ran to the left where he called for the US to retreat and surrender in Iraq.