Video: Obama Outlines "Surge of Diplomacy"

Published: September 13, 2007, 3:09 am

Yesterday before a mixed crowd of college students and community members at Ashford University in Clinton, Ia., Senator Barack Obama read from a foreign policy speech that calls for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq to be completed by the end of next year. During his "Comprehensive Plan to Turn the Page in Iraq," Obama mentioned President Bush many times. The speech outlined "a surge in diplomacy with all of the nations of the region" to confront mounting humanitarian disasters in Iraq, something he said Bush was unwilling to do. He went off-script to repudiate the testimonies of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker before the Senate this week saying, "We are at the same level of violence now that we were in June 2006. That is the improvement that has been made after an additional 30,000 troops and billion dollars have been spent in Iraq ... there may not be immediate, constant warfare on the streets of Baghdad but nobody believes that the dynamics

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