May 11 2007
A woman at a New Hampshire town hall meeting momentarily caught presidential candidate Barack Obama off guard last month. While telling the senator that her nephew was heading to Iraq to serve, Jean Serino became distraught. “I can’t breathe,” the Associated Press’s Philip Elliott reported (April 21) Serino sobbing, “I want to know, when am I going to be able to breathe? Are you going to get us the hell out of there? Promise us you will get us out of there.”
Our junior Senator, turned presidential contender, confidently responded: “… I make a solemn pledge to you, as president, we will be out of Iraq.”
But, Obama, like his colleagues, votes (again, and again, and yet again) for the supplemental spending requested by President Bush for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Much of this money is used to procure weapons systems which won’t be delivered until 2009-2010, assuring that far from being out of Iraq during the next presidency, we’ll be more firmly entrenched. We can’t breathe! When are we going to be able to breathe?
