Over the past eight years, the Far Left has called President Bush—among other things—a war criminal, liar, idiot, moron, fascist, incompetent boob, and Hitler. They may also soon be calling him….right.
Barack Obama named two key appointments today: Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Robert Gates, to stay on as Secretary of Defense. Mrs. Clinton voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. She turned on the war when things were going south, as all opportunists did. But she never apologized for her war vote and defended it heartily. Mr. Gates was the President’s choice to replace Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and to oversee the surge of U.S. troops that has brought us to the brink of full-on victory in Iraq. Gates prosecuted the surge successfully and is now overseeing the gradual withdrawal of combat troops as necessity and the newly approved Status of Forces Agreement dictate. No rapid, precipitous withdrawal for the President, or for him.
Obama’s choices for the highest level foreign policy and national security jobs tell us one thing: Bush was right. Bush was right to go into Iraq and liberate that country from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny (ask Hillary). Bush was right to change course, surge the troop levels, and see it through to success (ask Gates). Bush was right not to bend to political pressure when things went bad (ask Hillary again). And Bush was right to persevere with a troop increase, even when most of the country turned its back on him (ask Gates again).
Obama won the Democratic nomination because of his early and staunch opposition to the Iraq war. Now that he’s about to assume Commander-in-Chief duties, however, he has chosen advisers who believed in Bush and his policies at critical points in the Iraq decisionmaking process.
Their appointments show that even the most passionately anti-war, anti-Bush candidate—Barack Obama—-has turned into a president-elect who now acknowledges that Bush was right.
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