posted September 05, 2008 09:56 PM            

"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,'' Obama says in an interview with FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, which airs on The O'Reilly Factor at 8 pm EDT this evening. "It's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

Obama's reported admission about the surge's success arrives on the evening that Republican John McCain is ready to accept his party's presidential nomination. McCain, a supporter of Bush's war strategy, has insisted that any impartial observer must acknowledge the surge's success.

Yet, the surge also was intended to give the Iraqi government breathing room to achieve the political reconciliation necessary for a stable government there. And in the interview with O'Reilly, according to FOX, Obama says: "The Iraqi still haven't taken responsibility. And we still don't have that kind of political reconciliation."

Is the U.S. fighting "a war on terror,'' as Bush likes to call it?

"Absolutely,'' Obama tells O'Reilly.

Who are the enemies of the U.S.?

"Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America who have a distorted ideology who have perverted the faith of Islam,'' Obama replies, "and so we have to go after them."

On the question of military action against Iran: "It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon; it would be a game changer...

"I would never take military action off the table."

posted September 05, 2008 11:31 PM            

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Obama: Iraq Troop Surge Isn't Working
Obama told the crowd of more than 500 people that nobody wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq more than he does, but doing so will require voters to pressure Senate Republicans, including New Hampshire Senators Judd Gregg and John Sununu, to break with President Bush.

Obama says there's no reason to give the president's troop surge more time.

"Here's what we know. The surge has not worked. And they said today, 'Well, even in September, we're going to need more time.' So we're going to kick this can all the way down to the next president, under the president's plan."

The Illinois Senator also said the nation must be willing to "hunt down and take out" terrorists bent on carrying out extremist acts against the United States.

Obama pegged their number at twenty thousand people worldwide.

For NHPR News, I'm Josh Rogers.
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