[lbo-talk] "The US did not choose to fight a war in Afghanistan"!

[Sheldon]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> A flat-out lie this morning from Obama as he announced the expansion of the
> war
> that he was elected to end.  He seems to think he can get away with saying
> anything.
>

Just so the record is straight.  Obama's initial popularity was his
tepid anti-war stance regarding Iraq.  If there was a war he was
elected to end, it was Iraq.  As far as I recall, he has continually
promised an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.