Born to Betray

Barack Hussein Obama made emphatic promises during his campaign for the Presidency to his most fervent base, the anti-war activists, that if he won the office US troops would soon be withdrawn from Iraq. Over a year into his administration, American forces are still there to the dismay of the peacenik left. And the prospect exists, in fact is very real, that they will not leave Iraq in the foreseeable future. The commander of American forces there, General Ray Odierno, has just disclosed that he has developed a contingency plan for our military presence to remain in place if violence escalates in Iraq as it virtually must as we start to wind down our involvement there. So not only are the arch-leftist consistently let down by Obama's failures on the domestic front, Obama has escalated one foreign war in Afghanistan while our armed forces still languish in Iraq in an incursion that candidate Obama had pledged to end. Those ardent believers must be deeply chagrined that their champion used them for their campaign contributions and votes.