Obama with the Soldiers death, wasted lives speech.

Politics: Cited on Hot Air and Michelle Malkin.

If anyone is surprised by this and his seeming turn to the left/nutroots crowd, you shouldn't be for two reasons. The first is with primaries coming up and him way back in second to Hillary, he needs to appeal to the far left. Second, he was never a centrist/moderate/uniter/second coming the press has made him out to be. Back in 2003 he showed his true colors and then masked it for his senate run. He was called out on it by Bruce A. Dixon of the Black Commentator as being an opportunist.

Update# Obama apologises for saying their lives were wasted.

Obama Restructures a Remark on Deaths DURHAM, N.H., Feb. 12 — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said Monday that he had misspoken when he suggested that the lives of more than 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq had been “wasted.” As he arrived in New Hampshire, Mr. Obama said he would “absolutely apologize” to military families if they were offended by a remark he made in Iowa while criticizing the Bush administration’s Iraq policy. “What I would say — and meant to say — is that their service hasn’t been honored,” Mr. Obama told reporters in Nashua, N.H., “because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.” A New Hampshire reporter asked Mr. Obama whether he regretted the remark, made at a rally on Sunday that “we ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.” “Even as I said it,” Mr. Obama said Monday, “I realized I had misspoken.”

I love the the Times take that he "restructed" his remark. So quait and full of it, my take on his anti-war speech 4 years ago when he said this.

""I don't oppose all wars ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."

is the same vibe I got from his speech in Iowa. He meant what he said the first time and of course will get a pass from the media.