In the first interview granted to Fox News by Barack Obama, the first part of the interview has been shown and Barack Obama conceded that the troop surge in Iraq has succeeded beyond "wildest dreams.'
Obama concedes that the troop surge in Iraq has succeeded beyond "wildest dreams", but still contends the country has not had enough “political reconciliation” and Iraqis still have not taken responsibility for Iraq. O'Reilly asked Obama if he was willing to admit he was wrong about the troop surge and Obama's response was, "I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
The interview took place in York, Pennsylvania, where Bill O'Reilly asked Barack Obama whether he believed America was involved in a war on terror and he said, "absolutely," and when asked to name the enemies, he stated "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam.”
He called the Islamic republic of Iran a major threat, said it was "unacceptable" for a rogue nation to obtain a nuclear weapon, and continued on to say, "It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon, it would be a game changer,” Obama said. “It’s sufficient to say I would not take military action off the table and that I will never hesitate to use our military force in order to protect the homeland and the United States’ interests.”
The interview will air in three more parts next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the report of part one of the segment aired on Thursday, September 4, 2008 can be found at Fox News.
This from the man that has refused to admit the surge was not a mistake, in fact, although he admitted it worked, he still would not say the words, "I was wrong" about the surge.
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