Read Obama's article a little more closely. He plans on leaving a security force on the ground and reserves the right to pursue Al Qaeda througout Mesopotamia. Is this another example of Obama advocating the violation of another nation's borders, as he has with Pakistan? If one looks up the traditional definition of Mesopotamia (on say, Wikipedia), it includes:
"an area geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq,[2] northeastern Syria,[2] southeastern Turkey,[2] and the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran"
So now we are going to send our troops into Iran, Syria, and Turkey if we think Al Qaeda is there? What happened to opposing unilateral actions and embracing summits? What does Obama think these countries will do when we invade them? Sit by, or perhaps lob missiles at Israel in hopes of igniting a wider Middle Eastern war? Obama's memory on Iraq is so short that he forgets Turkey wouldn't even let us use their nation as a staging ground for the original invasion in 2003. How does he think they will react when we use the Kurdish north to stage incursions into their nation?

Obama is such a lightweight on foreign policy it isn't even funny. He's a dangerous one trick pony whose trick got old the minute we committed ourselves to Iraq. Wheher he was right or not in 2003 when his opinion cost him nothing politically is beside the point - he is dead wrong now and the consequences will be dead Americans.

the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech

Let's stop the merry-go-round here .. and call this what it is.

Obama is a politician .. who lies when it suits him.

This is the true meaning of "The Politics of Change."

Obama changes his position however he needs to in order to keep from being labeled as the radical hard-leftist that he is.

So what are the chances that this story by Andy Martin, saying Obama's mom and dad never married, being true ?

Martin's commentary is brutal and uncalled for, but he gets the broad strokes correct.

Barack Obama, Sr. never divorced his first wife Kezia Obama, rendering all following marriages invalid because of bigamy, and all children... well, it doesn't need to be said, and certainly not as Martin says it.

Please keep in mind that none of us picks our parents, and that his mother apparently had no idea that Senior was already married.

Both were the victims of an amoral communist drunk.

And, let me point out, "legitimate" birth within the bonds of matrimony is not a requirement for POTUS as spelled out in the Constitution.

Personally, I think attempts to paint Obama as legally unqualified to be POTUS deserve the same amount of respect as attempts to paint McCain as legally unqualified (because of where he was born) do: none.

Besides, it distracts from attacking Obama for his radical leftist views, which is where I think we need to focus.

Did he go to Iraq already and speak with the military leaders? Because said he was going to revise his plans based on what they said, not pen an article before talking to them about what he has made up his mind he will do. Since the press won't ask him hard questions, and he continues to duck Fox, the question he needs to answer is what is he going to do with Pakistan? We chased Al Qaeda over the border in 2001, if we send more troops it will happen again - but that isn't victory. They just disappear, re-arm and re-plan. Will he attack Pakistan, because he said he would or has he flipped on that one as well?

And now for more 'truth' in photography, here's the AFP...again. Anyone else see what's wrong with this photo. US soldiers secure the area at a newly installed check-point at the Babadag training facility in Tulcea, Iraq. At least 28 people were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of recruits on an Iraqi army base in an area known to be a stronghold of Al-Qaeda fighters.
(AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)