Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Directors_Forum_with_Senator_Barack_Obama

2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama calls for an increased military and diplomatic focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area he identifies as the most critical front in the global fight against terrorism.

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Barack Obama: "A New Strategy for a New World"

Senator Barack Obama gives a policy address on Iraq and National Security at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. This program was recorded on July 15, 2008.

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961), is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. He is a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination.

He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996. Four years later, he made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Obama won reelection to the state senate in 2002, running unopposed. As early as 2002, he was a critic of the proposed Iraq War, declaring in a television interview that he would have voted against the Iraq Resolution. In 2004, he ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Midway through the campaign, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and became a nationally known political figure. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote.

Obama formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007.

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[nowellian]

Obama campaigned on escalating the Afghan War.

Why are people surprised now that he is actually doing it.

[QuantumLeap365]

The war is a threat to our national security. We'll spend over one $100 billion next year to bomb a nation of poor people while we re-energize the Taliban, destabilize Pakistan, deplete our army and put more of our soldiers' lives on the line.

[greengringo2003]

Baraq Hussein Obama, the perfect anti-Midas! Everything he touches, turns to shit!

[QuantumLeap365]

@hhoomba Joining the military doesn't include an education in foreign policy or public relations. You are clearly a moron, kiss your own ass.

[hhoomba]

@QuantumLeap365 Enlist in the military, see what the soldier's are trying to do over there, become proud for actually making a difference in the world instead of just bitching about shit you don't understand on youtube like you used to, then kiss my ass civ.

[hookalakah]

"Our president likes to be on both sides at once.

...In Afghanistan, he wants to go but he wants to stay. He’s surging and withdrawing simultaneously. He’s leaving fewer troops than are needed for a counterinsurgency strategy and more troops than are needed for a counterterrorism strategy — and he seems to want both strategies at the same time. Our work is done but we have to still be there. Our work isn’t done but we can go." --Maureen Dowd, New York Times, June 26, 2011

[AlmostAlwaysFabulous]

@RightCoastJul

What do we say? Bin Laden is dead, and he did everything he said he would in this video. Did Bush win Afghanistan? No. Since then, 100,000 troops were withdrawn from Iraq, more for now sent to Afghanistan. If anything, this video proves that he wasn't turning on his campaign promise on this.

[RightCoastJul]

What do you say now liberals? Did he win Afghanistan?

[AlmostAlwaysFabulous]

The war he was talking about eventually ending was Iraq. People just hear what they want to hear. But damn if he wasn't right.

[kvarch91]

I don't freakin believe this, last time I saw Obama speaking was before the elections and he sure as hell didn't say any bullcrap like that about the war. They really are up to something...

[dantej32]

@emmettk you are on the money, 2 thumbs up