Did Barack Obama forget his own comments on the surge in Iraq or did he forget that he could get a reminder of them on Youtube.com?  Appearently, he relies on his friends in the MSM to forget and to give him a free pass as they do so pretty reliably!

Thanks to Gateway Pundit & Powerline for finding these videos!

Below is a quote from a recent interview on the success of the surge in Iraq that you will see at the 6 minute section of this Youtube video:

"(snicker) What I said was even at the time of the debate of the surge, was if you put 30,000 troops in, of course it’s going to have an impact. There’s no doubt about that. The question is, does it solve our larger strategic questions and do the costs involved, uh, do they outweigh the benefits."

Below is a quote and the video from an interview Barack Obama did on the surge in Iraq when it was proposed by President Bush:

"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there in fact I think it will do the reverse. I think it takes pressuire off the Iraqis to arrive at the sort of political accommodation that every observer believes is the ultimate solution to the problems we face there. So I am going to actively oppose the president’s proposal… I think he is wrong."

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, in a post over at the Stepping Right Up blog they found a picture that the Obama campaign released, below you will notice that Obama is shown with military personnel in Afghanistan, what few would show up anyways, you will notice that the line is barely 3 deep, but the more telling tale in the photo is how far Obama is standing from the military! Simply amazing! Enough said!

The Washington Post reports that a former CIA agent who was involved in interrogations of captured al-Qaeda terrorists claims that waterboarding works!

A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.

Zayn Abidin Muhammed Hussein abu Zubaida, the first high-ranking al-Qaeda member captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, broke in less than a minute after he was subjected to the technique and began providing interrogators with information that led to the disruption of several planned attacks, said John Kiriakou, who served as a CIA interrogator in Pakistan.

I do not subscribe to the notion that waterboarding is torture but one of the big arguments from the left is that "studies show that it does not work, they will just tell you what you want to hear" well I always found that claim hard to swallow, they would be better off denying knowing anything than sending their torturers on wild goose chases that will inevitably bring them more wrath.

I find it amazing that this guy broke in less than a minute and gave info that disrupted several planned attacks and inevitably saved lives, so here is a technique that is not painful, at least not painful enough to deter a reporter from paying someone to perform the technique on him for a special report that he was doing, I do not know about you, but I am not going to pay someone to brake my bones so I can see what it is like to be tortured for a story!

The questioned that liberals need to ask here is, if this attack were to have been targeted at their families, and knowing that would they appose the use of that technique?  I find it hard to imagine that they would!

View the video of the reporter getting his torture below:

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In this amazing Youtube video you will witness Democrats going full circle in their criticisms of the 1st President Bush (attacking him for not doing enough against Saddam) & their criticisms of the 2nd President Bush (attacking him for doing too much against Saddam.

It is truly amazing to see Gore criticizing the 1st President Bush for being too friendly with Saddam and ignoring his ties to Terrorism and his efforts to develop WMDs and obtain Nuclear technology and then to fast forward to the present and listen to Democrats attack the current President Bush for lying about Saddam’s ties to Terrorism and lying about Saddam having WMDs.

In this video you will hear Gore make the following points and more:

• Points out Iraq’s ties to Terrorism and criticizes President Bush for hiding these ties from the American people.
• Criticizes President Bush for refusing to take tough actions against Saddam.
• Criticizes President Bush for ignoring CIA reports, State Dept. reports & other reports that Saddam was seeking to develop WMDs and Nuclear weapons.
• Criticizes President Bush for thinking that Saddam’s behavior would improve out of fear of economic and political sanctions.

 The Prowler reports that Rep. Henry Waxman is instructing his investigative staff to monitor popular conservative talk radio programs such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity & Mark Levin to attempt to do damage to their shows and will also put pressure on Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to support the anti-Free Speech doctrine known as the "Fairness Doctrine"

Others on the Democrat side are pushing ahead with other plans. Rep. Henry Waxman has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows, and to call in Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to discuss the so-called "Fairness Doctrine."

"Limbaugh isn’t the only one who needs to be made uncomfortable about what he says on the radio," says a House leadership source. "We don’t have as big a megaphone as these guys, but this all political, and we’ll do what we can to gain the advantage. If we can take them off their game for a while, it will help our folks out there on the campaign trail."

Read more on this subject at the following sites:

• Hot Air
• Wizbang

This was a great idea, Rush is going to auction off the original smear letter that Harry Reid and 41 US Senators sent to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications.  The entire proceeds of this auction.. the entire high bid… will be donated to The Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation.

Here’s the beginning text from the auction description:

When "Dingy Harry" Reid and the U.S. Senate turned away from the business of the nation to instead smear a private citizen, forty-one of them sent a letter demanding the "repudiation" of their inaccurate interpretation of Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Jesse Al-Zaid (a.k.a. Jesse MacBeth) and other "phony soldiers" who falsify their service. This letter was delivered to Mark Mays of Clear Channel Communications, Rush Limbaugh’s syndication partner, and widely quoted in the Drive-By Media.

View the aution page here!