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Obama's Latest Gaffe: Ethnic Cleansing 'Positive Thing' | NewsBusters.org

Iraqi ethnic cleansing, a "positive thing"? That's what Barack Obama seemed to say on this morning's "Today." The Dem presidential contender spoke with substitute co-anchor David Gregory on the heels of Meredith Vieira's ill-tempered interview of Condoleezza Rice.

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DAVID GREGORY: You heard Secretary Rice say there is progress in Iraq that cannot be ignored. She spoke about when, not if, the United States prevails in Iraq. Do you see it that way?

BARACK OBAMA: I think it's important to understand that after two days of testimony [by Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker], here's the bottom line: that having put an additional 30,000 troops in, and continued the same course we were on, we are now back to the horrendous levels of violence that we were back in June of 2006.

So there's no doubt that we've seen some measured progress in Anbar province, primarily because the Sunni tribal leaders made a political decision there that they would work with the coalition forces. We've seen a very modest reduction of violence in Baghdad, partly because entire neighborhoods have essentially been ethnically cleansed. Those are all positive things, but we are now back at the levels of violence we were 18 months ago.

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Freeman15

Such horse ****, I hate Obama, but his "ethnic cleansed" qualifier was obviously not a "positive thing". He meant the reduction of violence, and anybody with half a brain knows it. I hate the man's politics with a passion, and find him to be a bit phoney, but come on, that's just ridiculous.

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I agree with you, Freeman, he was NOT saying ethnic cleansing was a good thing.

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