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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Obama's Foreign Policy "Facts" Awry

Obama sometimes likes to make up facts to get his point across. Yesterday was a brilliant one:

Obama posited -- incorrectly -- that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic.

"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said.

Obviously, Arabic is not spoken in Afghanistan. I wonder if the MSM would ignore his gaffes if his last name were Bush.