Obama: "We don't engage in war because it's a sport."

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Obama calls for "diplomatic surge" in Iraq

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) invoked the names of civil rights leaders and criticized the war in Iraq at a political rally Saturday in Atlanta.

"When ordinary people have stood up, extraordinary things have happened." the Democratic presidential candidate declared before an audience of more than 10,000 assembled on the Georgia Tech campus.

The Illinois senator told the audience that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had described the Vietnam War as "morally untenable" in comments he made not far from the site of this rally. And Obama said that while parallels between Vietnam and Iraq were not precise, he added, "We don't engage in war because it's a sport."

He received some of his loudest applause discussing the war, saying "It's time for us to start bringing our combat troops home. We don't want to see Iraq completely collapse into bloodshed."

He added, "We've got national security concerns that we've got to tend to, but we are not going to solve the problem by sending another hundred billion dollars every year, and sending thousands of more troops to come back injured. There's no military solution to the problems that we have in Iraq at this point... we need a diplomatic surge."...

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/04/obama-calls-for-diplomatic-surge-in.html

[Solly Mack]

1. No, we engage in war for lies ....

and not just the combat troops home....support troops got no business being there either.

[Dhalgren]

4. You're right! End our military involvement in total! We can support

the Iraqis in many other ways - and we should - but not militarily. Enough! De-fund the occupation, now!

[Capn Sunshine]

5. No we engage in Wars for PROFIT

If there was no $ in this war, or profits were limited like they were in other wars, you'd see support for this war wither and blow away.

[Straight Shooter]

2. Fox News headline (here it comes, folks): OBAMA CALLS WAR "SPORT"

Wait for that quote to be misconstrued.

[msongs]

3. Dear Barack - it is NOT a war anymore. It is an OCCUPATION of Iraq. nt

[loyalsister]

6. I think he is a responsible thinker on this

I don't think it is reasonable to expect that we can leave civil war for them to clean up on their own and maintain a sense of national conscience.
We trashed their country. We owe them some support as they try to figure out what to do now. We have to begin to show more respect for Iraqi culture, however.
He recognizes the need for real diplomacy. Involving neighboring countries.
If there is anyone who knows, this is the guy who knows that from an international perspective, it is a waste of time to go around pretending that we do everything right.
He learned it on the playground.

[bamacrat]

7. Obama just got my vote.

[flpoljunkie]

8. Obama's right. We need to stand up and support Feingold's bill to redeploy troops from Iraq.

To urge your Senator to support Feingold's bill: http://ga1.org/campaign/iraq0407