ABC cropped Obama, falsely suggesting he "admitted that he was wrong to oppose the surge"

[Joanne98]

Summary: After airing a video clip of Sen. Barack Obama saying of the "the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq," "I've already said, it's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," ABC's David Wright stated, "The McCain campaign has been pushing Obama for weeks to admit that he was wrong to oppose the surge, a policy McCain championed early on," falsely suggesting that Obama said during his interview that he was wrong to oppose the surge.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809060004

[iamjoy]

1. He Needs to Point to Afghanistan

violence is up there because we took troops out of there to go to Iraq.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Who cares about the friggin surge... when the war is a disaster

The surge seems to be the ultimate straw man diversion.. it means nothing.

[2Design]

5. exactly - it isn't about the surge or winning - the fact is it was wrong to start with n/t

[wtmusic]

3. The surge has "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams" is inaccurate.

It has been effective at reducing violence - for now. Why is Obama prematurely proclaiming it a success?

[DemoRabbit]

6. He's NOT

they edited out what he said afterwards...

Here's the full transcript of the Iraq discussion:


OBAMA: Hold on a second, Bill. If you look at the debate that was taking place, we had gone through five years of mismanagement of this war that I thought was disastrous. And the president wanted to double down and continue on an open-ended policy that did not create the kinds of pressure on the Iraqis to take responsibility and reconcile.

O'REILLY: But it worked. It worked. Come on.

OBAMA: Bill, what I said is -- I've already said it succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

O'REILLY: Right. So why can't you say, "I was right in the beginning, and I was wrong about the surge"?

OBAMA: Because there's an underlying problem with what we've done. We have reduced the violence --

O'REILLY: Yeah.

OBAMA: -- but the Iraqis still haven't taken responsibility, and we still don't have the kind of political reconciliation. We are still spending, Bill, $10 to $12 billion a month.

from: http://mediamatters.org/items/200809060004?f=h_latest

[crimsonblue]

4. Yeah, so John got the surge right

too bad he was gung ho since 9/12 to invade Iraq. Too bad it was an illegal, unnecessary, badly planned, and bankrupting war. Too bad over 4000 American troops have died in vain, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have been slaughtered. Too bad we created a power vacuum in Iraq that allowed Al Qaeda to congregate and grow. Too bad we bombed a country back to the third world. Too bad we sold our soul as a country to Halliburton, Blackwater, and black gold. Too bad this war allowed our President to destroy our Constitution. Too bad our country may be irreversably damaged.

But other than that, the surge has solved all our problems.

[malaise]

7. Palin lied about this as well yesterday n/t