“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there,’’ Obama said. (Aug 14, 2007)

Being a Iraq war veteran, I can tell you we do not and did not perform air raids on villages and killing civilians. This comment by Obama slanders our troops and is detrimental on our troops morale.

What does he know abo0ut war. He has never served his country in the armed forces. He makes me sick

Come on people. He's one of the smartest people in the universe. When he clears his throat, you're supposed to 'feel a tingling going up your leg'. Jim

This is from factcheck.org:
At the time, then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked Obama for the remark. But Obama was on solid ground. As The Associated Press concluded: "As of Aug. 1 [2007], the AP count shows that while militants killed 231 civilians in attacks in 2007, Western forces killed 286. Another 20 were killed in crossfire that can't be attributed to one party." Even President Bush admitted that there were too many civilian casualties, saying: "The president [Afghan president Hamid Karzai] rightly expressed his concerns about civilian casualty.
I'm not taking any sides on this but, any quotes are up for interpretation from whomever is reading it.

Thats a good quote but in any war a loss of life happens and within these two wars the difference is we are not trying to kill civilians and the enemy is.

Yes, I don't believe his intention was to put the troops down at all.

I will guarantee that if and when he is elected, He and Pelosi will have an immediate withdrawal of ALL our troops. I put him in the same league as MURTHA of PA, the same Retired Marine that said our troops are murderers.

 

Pelosi I have no respect for at all or Murtha for that matter. I'm from western PA and my family up there are not rednecks by any means. Now the ones here, that is a different story.

Our Defense contractors, at the request of the Pentagon, have been working diligently over the years to make war as sterile as possible. Soon, our men and women will be able to come home and say "I didn't kill anyone, the unmanned drones did it" What beautiful nice clean wars those will be.