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Obama Campaign’s Newest Ad Touts the End of the Iraq War

Dec. 16, 2011 3:21pm Madeleine Morgenstern

A still image from the Obama campaign's newest ad, "Ending the War in Iraq: A Promise Kept." (Image source: YouTube)

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign released a new ad Thursday hailing the end of the war in Iraq.

Titled, “Ending the War in Iraq: A Promise Kept,” the nearly three-minute video features a slew of clips of Obama speaking critically about the war, going as far back as 2004.

“I’m a hawk about when it comes to defeating terrorism, I was strongly supportive of Afghanistan, I would have picked up arms myself to prevent 9/11 again. I don’t think the president has made the case on Iraq,” then-newly-elected Senator Obama says in a Nov. 2004 clip.

Image source: YouTube

Other clips feature Obama on the 2008 campaign trail, announcing the war’s end in August 2010 and conclude with him speaking to returning troops at Fort Bragg this week.

“This month, President Obama is making good on his promise to bring the last American troops home from Iraq in time for the holidays. Here’s a look at the President’s record on the war in Iraq—from his time as a state senator through the end of this nine-year conflict,” a message on Obama’s re-election website reads.

Interspersed between the clips are photos of Obama shaking hands with service members, troops saluting and one shot of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery.

“I’m proud to finally say these two words, and I know your families agree: Welcome home,” he tells troops at Fort Bragg, as the video fades into the Obama 2012 logo.

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bernbart
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:09pm
He has kept many promises. Obama ended the Iraq as promised, when promised, and in well organized, honorable, and dignified manner. The right loves to go to war, but is is always the progressives who help veterans and their families with programs when they return.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:31pm
  Excuse me ? The ” right always loves to go to war ” Duh. Explain that one please. WWI ? WW II ? VietNam ? Korea ? A bunch of hysterical , historical hooey . ( Product of the current American public school system ? ) No. I think you would be much more accurate to say “It’s always the progressives”…… who spend us into bankruptcy . (think you need to spend some time brushing up on your American history with Mr. Gingrich )
  
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Miami
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:03pm
Is it just Me or was this scheduled to happen before he took office…?

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- MIlitary Nurse
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:28pm
  Yes sir you ARE correct =)
  
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- MIlitary Nurse
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:34pm
  You are correct sir
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:52pm
  Funny story, the promise was made by President Bush, yet somehow that doesn’t get mentioned. I think a better term for President Obama would be Vulture, swooping in after the hard part was done.
  
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- We are Americans
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:10pm
  I think it was scheduled for sometime
  in 2003 but the neocons never expected the
  the Sunnis and Shiites would start an insurgency.
  Osama bin Laden called the war Americas gift
  to me. Bush should get all the credit for everything
  in Iraq.The 4500 dead Americans. The 100k of
  dead Iraqs. The trillion spent. Yet when it comes
  to the economy or anything bad. Its all Obama.
  
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- marion
  Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:14am
  Yep, it was part of the 2007 timetable. The only thing that was then and this is now, a 20K-25K security and training force would be maintained for an estimated 7 years if I remember correctly. Gotta give them time to understand what freedom is, not just give it to them and then say, learn it on your own now. This will come back to haunt us very soon.
  
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I.Gaspar
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:59pm
How long will it be before he takes credit for writing the Constitution, and thus having the right to edit it as he sees fit?
Nothing but a marxist P.O.S.!

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- dianr43
  Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:40am
  nothing he does surprises me, he is only out for Obama
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:59pm
The Audacity of a Dope. I suppose he expects a participation trophy…

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:32pm
  Audacity of dope is perfect. This one of those full of awe moments or awful moments. Jaw dropping no I did not just see this, yes you did.
  
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pmjr-jones
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:59pm
there is no war only get rid of population

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pmjr-jones
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:57pm
yeah the war is over i wander what ceo that of this

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Sumrknght
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:56pm
Yanking the troops from Iraq on a deadline so he can make a political ad?

Know how a Prince getting killed started WWI? … how small events can lead to World Wars?

Iran now has ‘open road’ to Israel once we leave. (and vice versa – Hope they strike the nuke sites!)

This is the biggest mistake yet. (and that is saying a LOT with Obama – he’s got a HUGE list to top!)

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- jakartaman
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:30pm
  Air space clear for Israel to hit Iran – a 10 month window until Iraq receives the F16s
  
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bcarron4
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:56pm
It takes some kind of egotist to release a campaign ad about the war ending as promised when if it was left up to him we never would have had the surge that made it all possible. Was it produced by the Iranian agent who got to visit the White House this week?

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Ajax_W_R
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:56pm
The promise was to END the war. Even if we had lost everything and our country was taken over by a hostile force (wait a minute…that sounds familiar…), even if we had “lost the war” he could still say the war had ended and it was a promise kept. When something you promise can happen without doing anything at all, I don’t think it really counts as a credit which can be the foundatio for a re-election campaign.

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Jeff1000
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:53pm
Even our troops, best interests, and national security are used as pawns for re-election. There is nothing these statists won’t do to hold onto power.

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- CatB
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:57pm
  Since he moved up the date on the withdrawl — against the recommendations of our military leaders .. will he take responsibiltiy if it all goes wrong. NO! He only takes credit for what others have done .. NEVER accepts reponsibility for the messes he makes — plays golf and takes vacations.
  
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Depressed_American
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:53pm
He touts that HE ended the Iraq War, HE also takes ALL responsibility when Iraq falls to Iran or self implodes when the Secterian violance rips the country apart too!!! But as always BHO never takes responsibility when negative things happen…… But as always, when things turn bad, he will blame George Bush, never take responsibility for his own actions…..

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- Highland
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:36pm
  It’s always Bush’s fault, except when The Won can take credit for it.
  This man is a narcissistic fool.
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:47pm
Won’t give him ANY credit-give me a frikken break, egotistical jerk-in-chief.

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Maxim Crux
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:46pm
I would be happy as hell to get the hell out of their. No one likes fighting a war with their hands tied behind their backs. No one likes being defeated either and everyone with a brain knows that 9 years have been nothing but a waste of lives and resources only to hand it over to Iran. There was never any intention of winning this war from the people that started it. Just another way to achieve their anterior motives which don’t include the interest of the country

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- barber2
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:11pm
  Baloney
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HippoNips
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:45pm
There is a reason why we still dont’ see video of Obama with the troops. They are not energized about him like they were with Bush.
Ever since the first two disastious televised speaches directly to the troops broadcast live, the White House has not risked another

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HippoNips
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:43pm
The “promise” was got get the troops out sooner…first 12 months then 14 then 16 then 18.

What we got was following the Bush’s SoFA agreement with the Iraqis, then Obama badly attempting to keep them longer.
Obama thinks , like Americans of the past,, that no one is paying attention to detials and that we all cant remember past 6 months.

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JR1984
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:42pm
This man has damaged our national security not improved it. Other leaders laugh at his incompetence. And TANKYJO you have insulted Buffoons everywhere.

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netmail
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:41pm
He’s carrying along his very own ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner is he….?? When things take a radical turn for the worse in Iraq, it’ll be right back to ‘Blame Bush’. Obama is perfect…a perfect fool and a perfect liar…100% of the time.

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JimmyP
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:37pm
WOW, this changes EVERTHING! Obama really is a patriot! How could we ever have misjudged him so? (Sarcasm font used).
Pulleese, he ended a war that was supposed to end with or without him.
He is a master manipulator more so that any politician except perhaps LBJ and FDR.
Someone should take a tally of how many liberal causes he promised to make their priority his first action in office then abandoned them OR taking the action only when he figgured he could get away with it. Maroons!

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wewantchillywilly
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:37pm
starting a war in Libya without congressional approval: a tyrant is born.

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TheBloodOfTyrants
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:35pm
I usually count on TheBlaze to report the news we’re not going to hear anywhere else. So, why aren’t you reporting about NDAA on it’s way to The White House, and Obama’s reneg on vetoing it…? Did you just hear that toilet flush? That was our 4th amendment. Atrocious.

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- DRSAVAGE24
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 5:13pm
  Very interesting indeed. The only conservative website I could find information about this on was the Drudge Report. It wasn’t talked about on any conservative talk shows I listen to and it wasn’t mentioned here. Oh, that’s right, Republicans voted for it, so no news here, even though it’s scary as hell that one man can declare any of us a terrorist and then scoop us up off the streets and detain us indefinitely without any civil rights at all. You’d think this would be something Rush and Hannity would be concerned about. You’d think it would warrant a mention in the debate last night. Maybe instead of offering up softball questions to Newt Gingrich, they could have asked Ron Paul what he thought of the defense authorization with this language in it. They could have lobbed him an applause line, too, just like they did with Gingrich all night.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:35pm
Barack Hussein Obama would like to Thank , President George W Bush, Richard Cheny , Donald Rumsfeld, and the Armed Forces of the United States of America, for the ability to follow GWB’s timetable for exit from Iraq. And the ability to kill many Terrorists from information gathered by our intelligence people and the detainees , at Guantanamo Bay or wherever.
From now on , what happens is on Barry’s plate, if he has the cajones to admit it. NAH, never happen

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teamarcheson
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:33pm
Kenyan Born Obama’s Great Surrender:China, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq and soon Afghanistan and Taiwan.

Did he order that white flags be displayed on all US Military bases on 12-15-11. Did the Pentagon replace the colors that never use to run with an Obama white flag?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:32pm
His promise to end the war was not kept — the Iraqi government ordered us out; in short he is once again rewriting history to where as we are kicked out in disgrace he makes it into a Emperor Obama moment. Narcissist to the core.

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smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:27pm
A promise kept and all he had to do is extend the Bush withdrawal by 6 months. Way to take credits for 6 extra months of war.

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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:29pm
  September 10, 2008
  
  President Bush on Tuesday announced a modest drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq by February 2009. He also said if progress in Iraq continues, military leaders think additional U.S. troop reductions will be possible in the first half of next year. Both presidential candidates later responded to the news.
  
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- teamarcheson
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:30pm
  As expected, only Blacks come to see the Great satan. Has he started carrying a hyena’t tail as he walks around?
  
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- db321
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:38pm
  Get ready for the Ticker Tape Parade and the media 24/7 giving credit to their messiah Obama.
  
  The vets deserve a Parade – God Bless all that served and God Bless the family of those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
  
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tankyjo
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:25pm
Buffoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:53pm
  That’s certainly nicer than my comment which also begins with a b.
  
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