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He seemed a bit nervous last night; as if someone would question him on his early role in the Democrat's protest of the Iraq war. As a junior senator from Illinois, opposing the surge of troops in Iraq; that very surge that effectively won the war, and vaulted General Petraeus to the forefront as a decisive strategist. Can we ever forget BHO's and the Democrat's divisive hatreds? Looking into Obama's eyes, I felt I could see his hidden fears. Allow me to remind you:

Barack Hussein Obama joined Senate Democrats in opposing the surge.

From the WSJ, a blast from the past...

Mr. Bush's disfavor in Washington owes more to his greatest success. Simply put, there are those who will never forgive Mr. Bush for not losing a war they had all declared unwinnable.

Here in the afterglow of the turnaround led by Gen. David Petraeus, it's easy to forget what the smart set was saying two years ago -- and how categorical they all were in their certainty. The president was a simpleton, it was agreed. Didn't he know that Iraq was a civil war, and the only answer was to get out as fast as we could?

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- the man who will be sworn in as vice president today -- didn't limit himself to his own opinion. Days before the president announced the surge, Joe Biden suggested to the Washington Post he knew the president's people had also concluded the war was lost. They were, he said, just trying to "keep it from totally collapsing" until they could "hand it off to the next guy."

For his part, on the night Mr. Bush announced the surge, Barack Obama said he was "not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Three months after that, before the surge had even started, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pronounced the war in Iraq "lost." These and similar comments, moreover, were amplified by a media echo chamber even more absolute in its sense of hopelessness about Iraq and its contempt for the president. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Barack Hussein Obama campaigned and won on his party's contempt for George Bush and for the Iraq war. Each and every one of 'em tried their damndest to lose it for us. Remember the Senate Sleepover?

Barack Obama at Senate Sleepover

Fearless, feckless, future Social Democrat Moocher leader was there, stretching out his cot and fitting his bedsheets. A protest against the surge, against General David Petraeus, against the war in Iraq, against George Bush, against America.

You go, girl.

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