@revelette,
revelette, the quotes you provided from Obama himself support what I posted. Please note what parados posted accusing me of lying, as he accuses anyone that disagrees with him or discovers his lies with the same thing as he does, but his accusations are fraudulant. It should be obvious to everyone what Obama said about Iraq during his campaign, as it is part of the record. Thank you for providing just one quote of the many he made similarly about Iraq. By now, we know that parados is such an extreme partisan that he will defend anything that Obama does and says with lawyerly ease and lack of conscience. If you are interested in a logical debate, just ignore parados.
I have repeated your Obama quotes about Iraq during his campaign below, but to summarize quickly, he said he opposed the war from the start and that he believed the war would create sectarian violence like he thinks has happened, and that the war in Iraq was a distraction and is a distraction from the real war on terror. He then said he would conduct a phased withdrawal of troops and have all combat troops out by March 31st of 2009. That was almost a year and a half ago now, revellette.
Now, if he actually believed then what he said then, he would have had all of the combat troops out by now. One could possibly use the argument that all combat troops are out, but I know different because I have a close relative that was there long after March of 2009. He was in the infantry in fact, and his mission was combat if necessary, so he was a combat troop. The truth of this is that Obama apparently did not believe what he said during the campaign, or if he believed it, he has not kept his promises at all. That means he was apparently lying to us.
I say again, if Obama believed or believes what he said, the mission in Iraq is now much the same as then, and he would have and should have simply withdrawn all troops, combat and otherwise, out of Iraq immediately after taking office. He can still do it now if he actually believes any of the stuff that he said.
Here is a repeat of the quote you provided, revelette:
"A: Look, I opposed this war from the start. Because I anticipated that we would be creating the kind of sectarian violence that we’ve seen and that it would distract us from the war on terror. At this point, I think we can be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in. But we have to send a clear message to the Iraqi government as well as to the surrounding neighbors that there is no military solution to the problems that we face in Iraq. So we have to begin a phased withdrawal; have our combat troops out by March 31st of next year; and initiate the kind of diplomatic surge that is necessary in these surrounding regions to make sure that everybody is carrying their weight. And that is what I will do on day one, as president of the United States, if we have not done it in the intervening months."
The following is what Obama said concerning Iraq during his compaign. 