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Obama Responds

This video in response to Hillary's ad from earlier today:

It's true that judgment matters...but when has Obama ever had to make, or take, a tough call? Never. The man has never had to make a decision with life or death consequences. And he led the effort to secure loose nukes? What, was nobody doing that before Obama showed up in Congress all of three years ago? They make it sounds like he popped a terrorist in the face and stripped him of his briefcase bomb. In fact, the expansion of Nunn-Lugar that Obama singed on to has nothing to do with nuclear weapons:

"Lugar-Obama" expands the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles and anti-personnel mines.

And what does it say about his judgment that his strategy toward Iraq seems to boil down to this: retreat and then reinvade. I can't believe that the bulk of Amercians find that to be a judicious approach. Rather than push through to success and then draw down in Iraq, when the Iraqis are strong enough to take over more responsibility for security, he'd rather pull out quick, and then, if (and when) al Qaeda reconstitutes, send our forces back in? Is that a less costly strategy? Is that even a serious strategy?

HT: Hot Air

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