McCain supporters take jabs at Obama as he meets with Mideast leaders
8:14 a.m. Monday, July 21, 2008
Barack Obama arrived in Iraq this morning as part of a congressional delegation, but it was in America's other war zone, Afghanistan, where the Democratic candidate spent the weekend.
Sunday, he broke bread with U.S. troops before meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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"I think one of the biggest mistakes we've made strategically after 9/11 was to fail to finish the job here, focus our attention here. We got distracted by Iraq," Obama said.
Obama has called for an additional 7,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
"I, for at least a year now, have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three," he said. "I think it's very important that we unify command more effectively to coordinate our military activities."
Republican rival John McCain ceded the campaign spotlight over the weekend, taking in a ball game at Yankee Stadium. But supporter and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took a swipe at Obama' s high profile tour of Europe and the Middle East.
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"John doesn't have to go for the first or second time to these places. He has been going there for 20,30 years," Giuliani said.
And on FOX News Sunday, Senator Joe Lieberman insisted it's McCain who's been right on Iraq by supporting the surge strategy of last summer.
"Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today. It wouldn't be safe," Lieberman said.
Obama has been saying he wants to withdraw most American troops from Iraq in 16 months. This weekend Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki appeared to agree with Obama's timetable, but soon after, his office said he had been misquoted, and that he did not want to get involved in U.S. politics.
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