By GottaLaff
Okay, the blog title isn't a direct quote, but that's the gist. Here's more of what he said:
Despite touting the military’s victories in Iraq during his Friday speech in North Carolina, Obama isn’t prepared to declare the American invasion a success.Here are a couple of longer videos of the interview:
“I think what we can say unequivocally is that our military succeeded in every mission that was given to them,” Obama said. “I don’t think we can rightly say that the strategy cooked up by our civilian leadership, with respect to either going in, in the first place, or how the war was managed, was a success.”
On the whole, however, the president sounded a hopeful note in his conversation with Lehrer.
“If we get it right over the next few months and years, ... there is a strong possibility we can leave Iraq as a stable, peaceful partner in the region,” said Obama.
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