Obama's Flip Flop on Iraq

The Boston Globe calls it an "evolving view," but Obama's claims today that we should pull out of Iraq immediately are directly contrary to what he said in 2004.

In July of 2004, the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

"The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session. "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective."

Obama can hold any positions he wants, but to suggest that he has always been consistent is ridiculous. The American Thinker has the "evolution" of Obama's various positions since the war began.