When I first saw the 30 second clip of Obama saying "the surge would increase the violence in Iraq" I said that does not sound right. I dont remember Obama ever saying that. I wondered why the clip abruptly stopped after that statement. So I immediately searched youtube to view the entire clip and low and behold Obama did not say what he is being accused of saying.
His entire quote is as follows, "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there, in fact I think it will do the reverse I think it takes pressure off the Iraqi's to arrive at the sort of political accommodation that every observer believes is the ultimate solution to the problems we face there."
When you watch the entire quote you can see that he was not saying that 20,000 troops would increase the violence, he was saying 20,000 troops would have the opposite effect because it would reduce the pressure on the Iraqis to come to a political agreement between themselves
Here is the entire youtube clip......the complete statement occurs within the first minute of the clip.
The problem I have is why the Obama campaign did not point this out themselves?.....anybody know? The edited clip was played for Obama on "Meet The Press" and he did not dispute it, that EDITED clip was put out by Republicans.
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