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While the Republican National Convention was taking place, Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama had a sit-down with Bill O’Reilly for what could be called the interview of the year. Bill O’Reilly finally got the chance to interview Barack Obama. Bill has been asking for a long time, and he’s airing the interview in multiple parts next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so there will be more to come.
O’Reilly is as giddy as a little girl over his interview with Obama.
One particular part of Bill O'Reilly's interview with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been getting a great deal of attention: Obama's new language that the surge of US troops in Iraq "succeed(ed) beyond our wildest dreams."
Here's the full exchange: LINK :
O’REILLY: I think you were desperately wrong on the surge, and I think you should admit it to the nation that now we have defeated the terrorists in Iraq, and the Al Qaeda came there after we invaded, as you know. We defeated them.
OBAMA: Right.
O’REILLY: If we didn't, they would have used it as a staging ground. We've also inhibited Iran from controlling the southern part of Iraq by the surge, which you did not support. So why won’t you say, "I was right in the beginning. I was wrong about that"?
OBAMA: If you listen to what I've said, and I'll repeat it right here on this show, I think that there’s no doubt that the violence is down. I believe that that is a testimony to the troops that were sent and General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated, by the way, including President Bush and the other supporters. It has gone very well, partly because of the Anbar situation and the Sunni awakening, partly because of the Shia military. Look…
O’REILLY: But if it were up to you, there wouldn’t have been a surge.
OBAMA: Look…
O’REILLY: No, no, no, no.
OBAMA: No, no, no…
O’REILLY: If it were up to you, there wouldn’t have been a surge.
OBAMA: No, no, no.
O’REILLY: You and Joe Biden, no surge.
OBAMA: Hold on a second, Bill. If you look at the debate that was taking place, we had gone through five years of mismanagement of this war that I thought was disastrous. And the president wanted to double down and continue on an open-ended policy that did not create the kinds of pressure on the Iraqis to take responsibility and reconcile.
O’REILLY: But it worked. It worked. Come on.
OBAMA: Bill, what I've said is - I've already said it succeed beyond our wildest dreams.
O’REILLY: Why can't you say, "I was right in the beginning, and I was wrong about the surge"?
OBAMA: Because there's an underlying problem where what have we done. We have reduced the violence.
O’REILLY: Yes.
The Surge Success is a Problem for Obama
