Meanwhile, Obama doesn't want to fix what we broke
Barack Obama says that preventing genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to stay there.
"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now - where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife - which we haven't done," Obama said. "We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done. Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea," he said.
Except that we're already deployed- and having taken out Saddam, we're responsible for cleaning up our own mess. As both Colin Powell and Nancy Pelosi have famously remarked, "If you break it, you own it."
It's called "responsibility," Sen. Obama.
"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now - where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife - which we haven't done," Obama said. "We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done. Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea," he said.
Except that we're already deployed- and having taken out Saddam, we're responsible for cleaning up our own mess. As both Colin Powell and Nancy Pelosi have famously remarked, "If you break it, you own it."
It's called "responsibility," Sen. Obama.
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