HYPOCRISY: 2002 Obama Would Have Called Intervention In Syria "Dumb" and "Rash" (2002 Speech Included)

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"As I began to read through Senator Obama’s remarks on that October day in Chicago, I began to sneer at the irony. As I made my way further into the speech, the sneer became a laugh, and a laugh became an outburst of hilarity. Then I realized, nothing about this is funny. This hypocrite, this political opportunist, and this inexperienced, sorry excuse for a President has his finger on the trigger of the full force of the American military at a time when the majority of the world is telling us “No.”

Oh how things can change in just 11 years. How a trip from Capitol Hill to the White House gives one man the enlightenment to do a 180-degree turn on his stance on when exactly war is justified. How can a Senator go from calling a looming war in Iraq a “dumb” and “rash” war to unleashing the power of the presidential bully pulpit to magnify and enlarge a localized Syrian conflict? How can a Senator be so vociferously opposed to intervention backed by the UN and our allies, but so vehemently support intervention when our own allies are telling us they aren’t with us?"

Part of Obama's 2002 speech!! Look at how hypocritical this man is!!

“What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by…weekend warriors…to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt…to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That’s what I’m opposed to…A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear — I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States or to his neighbors…I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.”

Nice find OP