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Palin zinger and Obama's comeback

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 2:57 pm by Absentee Bob (not verified)

One of Palin's stinging lines against Obama during her Wednesday speech went something like this: "He never once uses the word 'victory' when discussing Iraq except as it relates to his own campaign." Nice one, right?

I happened to listen to a Fresh Air interview with Steve Coll, author of a New Yorker piece this week on the endgame in Iraq, in which he said (before the Palin speech) that David Petraeus NEVER uses the word 'victory' to describe the situation in Iraq because 1) it is too hard to define in the Iraq context and 2) the surge's gains are so fragile, and easily reversible. 

Since Bush and McCain often invoke Petraeus to bolster their own positions, I say that Obama might use Petraeus's non use of the word 'victory' to caution us against the delusions of John McCain who once cheered on the Mission Accomplished mantra of GWB in 2003 and now wants us to believe again that victory is at hand.

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