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Obama Can't Be Trusted on National Defense

By Peter Ferrara on 9.17.08 @ 12:08AM

Should he withdraw now?

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br> Taheri has far more evidence than Sick ever had, obtaining his information from the Foreign Minister of Iraq and other top Iraqi officials Obama spoke to while in Iraq this past summer. If the media is to have any credibility at all, it should reassign a few of the dozens of reporters it now has in Alaska investigating the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter to investigate the explosive charges now raised by Taheri. They can start by interviewing Taheri, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, and other Iraqi officials.

I am calling on Obama now to answer these charges, or withdraw from the race, freeing the American people from the trouble of having to impeach him after the election, if he should defy the now lengthening odds and somehow win the race.

p> Mission Accomplished br> The desperation that may have led Obama to engage in this gross misconduct stems from his belated recognition of the new reality in Iraq: The war there is over. America has won. It is too late for Obama to surrender, on behalf of his uninformed, misguided, anti-American netroots. /p> p>Victory for America in Iraq has meant a disastrous rout for Al Qaeda's terrorists. As another New York Post columnist, Ralph Peters, wrote in July: br> /p>

A terrorist organization that less than a decade ago had global appeal and reach has been discredited in the eyes of most of the world's billion-plus Muslims. No one of consequence in the Arab world sees Al-Qaeda as a winner anymore. Even fundamentalist clerics denounce it. For all of our missteps, Iraq's been worth it.

br> Peters also reported: br>

Al Qaeda has been driven from the Arab world, with nowhere else to go....Unwelcome even in Sudan or Syria, the Islamist fanatics have retreated to remote mountain villages and compounds on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border.

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topics:
Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, European Union, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Energy, Alaska

About the Author

Peter Ferrara is Senior Fellow at the Carleson Center for Public Policy, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, and General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is the author of America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, now available from HarperCollins.