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TweetThe guy is a pathological liar…Can you trust someone who’s lied over and over and over again in plain public without reservation? I can’t…
Brian Williams specifically asks him about the surge and if it was a success. Obama snickers and says (at the 6:00 mark):
“What I said was even at the time of the debate of the surge, was if you put 30,000 troops in, of course it’s going to have an impact. There’s no doubt about that. The question is, does it solve our larger strategic questions and do the costs involved, uh, do they outweigh the benefits.”
But I guess he forgot about what he said last year when the surge was being discussed:
(32 seconds)
“I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there in fact I think it will do the reverse. I think it takes pressure off the Iraqis to arrive at the sort of political accommodation that every observer believes is the ultimate solution to the problems we face there. So I am going to actively oppose the president’s proposal… I think he is wrong.”
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