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Power Line reports on the following comment by an Obama spokesman:

This morning on MSNBC, Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was asked about the success of the surge. He said: “We added 30,000 brave American troops, and violence is down, as everyone suspected it would be.”

Such a statement could only be made by someone who is either A) completely oblivious to reality or B) a liar.

Democrats, of course, suspected no such thing. Or if they did, they chose to blatantly lie about it and claim the surge would fail in order to continue their fervent war against Bush. Traveling back in time we have the following article to remind us where the Democrats actually stood:

In a strongly worded letter to President Bush, the Democratic leaders of Congress said Friday that they oppose any escalation, or “surge,” of U.S. troop strength in Iraq, as Bush is expected to propose next week.

Sending more American soldiers to Iraq will only endanger them, won’t bring stability and will only delay the day that Iraqis take responsibility for their own country, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

…But the Democratic leaders rejected the idea of a surge under any circumstances: “Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq,” Reid and Pelosi wrote.

Gibbs’ idea of “everyone” does not even include his boss, Barack Obama, who features the following Senate floor speech regarding the surge on his website:

The President’s decision to move forward with this escalation anyway, despite all evidence and military advice to the contrary, is the terrible consequence of the decision to give him the broad, open-ended authority to wage this war back in 2002. Over 4 years later, we can’t revisit that decision or reverse some of the tragic outcomes, but what we can do is make sure we provide the kind of oversight and constraints on the President this time that we failed to do the last time.

I cannot in good conscience support this escalation. It is a policy which has already been tried and a policy which has failed. Just this morning, I had veterans of the Iraq war visit my office to explain to me that this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have repeatedly tried, but with 20,000 troops, we will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress.

But I guess these are “just words.”

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