Obama-ites(?) love to point at McCain and accuse him of being too old or too ignorant to tell the difference between Sunni and Shi’a, between Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.

Barack Obama, though, is too ignorant (or too careless, or too convinced of your ignorance) to know (a) the Anbar Awakening started long before the 2006 elections, and — a point not mentioned yet here — (b) the Anbar Awakening was an initiative by Sunni tribes to kill or drive out from their land also Sunni al Qaeda.

In other words, every single thing Barack Obama said in the above statement was wrong.

Every one.

But who needs facts when you have a deep voice and read the TelePrompTer relatively well, right?

I continue to scratch my head when I read this quote.

“I did not anticipate, and I think that this is a fair characterization, the convergence of not only the surge but the Sunni awakening in which a whole host of Sunni tribal leaders decided that they had had enough with Al Qaeda, in the Shii’a community the militias standing down to some degrees. So what you had is a combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time as terrific work by our troops. Had those political factors not occurred, I think that my assessment would have been correct.”

How could he not anticipate the Sunni awakening if it had already begun when he opposed the surge? He basically said if the awakening had not occurred, he would have been correct in his opposition. But he said in the debate that the awakening had already occurred before he even opposed the surge. I’m so confused.

and their accomplishments regarding the success of the Surge. Accordingly, I am sure military absentee ballots will go for McCain 3:1 over Obama.

How do we make sure all millitary votes are processed and counted? We need one of our fine Conservative groups to send people over to each of our military bases overseas to process absentee ballots. If possible, the ballots should hand delivered to make sure they are properly processed and counted.

These people risk their lives every day…the least we can do is make sure their votes are counted!

Well, a few nights ago he told Terry Moran of ABC news that ethnic cleansing had something to do with it:

Moran asked what Iraq would look like now if Obama’s policy of withdrawing in the face of the violence had been implemented.

“That is a hard thing to speculate,” Obama said, “The Sunnis might have made the same decisions at that time. The Shii’as might have made some similar decisions based on political calculation. There was ethnic cleansing in Baghdad that actually took the violence level down. And so, as I said before. Nobody has a crystal ball. If we did you just hire the guy with the crystal ball.”(see it at Jake Tapper)

he should actually ask someone at the Pentagon what happened. There WERE two Marine Battalions which were added to Anbar.

And the “Surge” was more than just sending in troops to sit on a FOB. It was a CHANGE IN STRATEGY where we moved into Joint Security Stations. There were Anbaris who had stepped up against AQI before the surge, and oh yeah- they had their heads chopped off and their cars blown up.

Obama conveniently ignores the fact that the Surge worked in BAGHDAD which is the most populous province and the city has 7 million people- the Anbar Awakening had nothing to do with that. The situation in Basra, Maysan, Baqubah, Mosul and Mahmudiyah had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SAHWA OR THE AWAKENING as there were no Sunni Anbar tribes involved in those areas.

But why let facts stand in the way of taking credit away from our brave and heroic military?!!