From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's Army Anecdote

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

At last night's debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told an anecdote about an Army captain that is causing a lot of chatter in the political world.

Obama was making a point about what he called "the single most important foreign policy decision of this generation, whether or not to go to war in Iraq." His point was that in opposing the war he "showed the judgment of a commander in chief. And I think that Senator Clinton was wrong in her judgments on that."

He argued the Iraq war "diverted attention from Afghanistan where Al Qaeda, that killed 3,000 Americans, are stronger now than at any time since 2001."

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(The Army Captain) He told me his story, which I found quite credible, though for obvious reasons he asked that I not mention his name or certain identifying information.

Short answer: He backs up Obama's story.



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/from-the-fact-3.html

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Apparently the wingnuts have their shorts in a twist and claiming the story is not true.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Obama would know better than to repeat a bogus story that was

that sensitive. What he is saying is a VERY big black eye to the government.

[jody]

2. I opposed the illegal invasion before it happened but I can find thousands of officers who will say

they support the invasion.

Bottom line is military officers do their job and correctly leave it to congress to decide how troops should be used.

[From The Left]

3. "I find that Obama's anecdote checks out."

The wingnuts and Hillary's supporters are two sides of the same coin.

[trthnd4jstc]

4. Please watch that, Hillary Supporters Are Not Wingnuts.

I do not believe that we should be calling Hillary's supporters as similar to wingnuts. We need to be loyal to one another. When we disagree with each other, our disagreements should not resort to Name Calling. Democratic Loyalty is important. We can have loyalty to the Democratic Platform, and still disagree about policy. Good Day to You.

[aquart]

5. That is not true.

If you can't take opposition now, stay out of the general election.

[Ghost Dog]

6. It is not true that "3,000 Americans" were killed on 9/11.

That's an oft-repeated error. Citizens and nationals of many other countries were killed - including about 10% Brits.

[gratuitous]

7. The story checks out, but it won't matter

This is the sort of thing that the wingnuts will worry absolutely to death. Remember the suspicious "proportional" font on the materials used by CBS to support their story about George W. Bush being a deserter in wartime? By all accounts, even backed up by IBM, such word processing/typing technology existed and was in use at the time. But the wingnutosphere made such a deal about it that eventually CBS itself was convinced it had been snookered, and Dan Rather's career was over.

Don't think for a second that despite the story's being 100% true and verifiable that this will satisfy the rabid right-wingers. Indeed, nothing ever does. The only open question is whether the popular media will believe their own facts and sources, or if they'll once again collapse before the united, concerted hysteria of the wingnut right defending one of their sacred myths.