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Obama’s Surge Delusion By Rizzuto 
Fri Jan 11, 2008 - How can a viable presidential candidate be so incredibly off base when it comes to foreign policy? As noted by Townhall columnist Lorie Byrd, Obama was recently quoted as saying:"Now, I had no doubt -- and I said at the time, when I opposed the surge, that given how wonderfully our troops perform, if we place 30,000 more troops in there, then we would see an improvement in the security situation and we would see a reduction in the violence…I welcome the genuine reductions of violence that have taken place, although I would point out that much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar province -- Sunni tribes -- who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what, the Americans may be leaving soon, and we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shi'as. We should start negotiating now. That's how you change behavior." Does he really expect us to believe that the Democratic takeover of congress was the catalyst for the drop in violence in Iraq and the turning of the tribes against Al Qaeda? Even more importantly, does he truly believe it?
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