Besides bravely admitting the complete breakdown of the US Armed Forces to end the threat of al-Qaeda, the ‘Obama Speech’ at Oval Office also called an end to Iraq War on Tuesday 31st August, 2010.
Last night, while finally giving the much awaited ‘Obama Speech’ right from that very presidential desk where George W Bush initiated the Iraq War almost 7 and a half years ago, President Obama announced to call-off the front-line operations in Iraq.
He told Americans, in a nationally televised ‘Obama Speech’ that, now it is the high-time to end a war that had claimed more than 4,400 American lives and outlaid $1 trillion as well.
According to the actual wordings of the ‘Obama Speech’ “tonight, I am announcing that the American warfare mission in Iraq has ended. OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) is over and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country”.
President Obama, who always disliked and strongly opposed the war and the troops-rush-forward launched by ex-American President George W Bush in year 2007, further added “It’s well known that he and I always disagreed about the war from its beginning. Yet, no one could doubt President Bush’s support for our troops or his love of country”.
One thing, which would surely go in the best favor of Americans in near or far future, in the ‘Obama Speech’ was his drawing a straight-forward line between the huge monetary cost of the war and the economic mire.
He said “we have spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people and contributed to record deficits”.
Obama Speech
