NY Times: You know how we said Obama would end the Iraq War? Yeah, we were just Kidding

Now that they have succeeded in pulling the wool over America's collective eyeballs, the mainstream media is beginning to honestly report the fact that Obama probably isn't going to really do much of anything that they kept assuring he would do if elected. Good God, the guy isn't even in office yet, and already the press is readying the electorate to forget what they were promised for the last year. 

Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality

On the campaign trail, Senator Barack Obama offered a pledge that electrified and motivated his liberal base, vowing to “end the war” in Iraq.

But as he moves closer to the White House, President-elect Obama is making clearer than ever that tens of thousands of American troops will be left behind in Iraq, even if he can make good on his campaign promise to pull all combat forces out within 16 months.

“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary — likely to be necessary — to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq,” Mr. Obama said this week as he introduced his national security team...

“I believe that 16 months is the right time frame, but, as I’ve said consistently, I will listen to the recommendations of my commanders,” Mr. Obama said at that news conference on Monday. “And my No. 1 priority is making sure that our troops remain safe in this transition phase, and that the Iraqi people are well served by a government that is taking on increased responsibility for its own security.”

An apparent evolution of Mr. Obama’s thinking can be heard in contrast to comments he made in July, when he called a news conference to lay out his Iraq policy in unambiguous terms.

“I intend to end this war,” he said then. “My first day in office I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in, and I will give them a new mission, and that is to end this war — responsibly, deliberately, but decisively.” And in a news conference that month in Amman, Jordan, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the American troop increase had bolstered Iraqi security but declared that he would not hesitate to overrule American commanders and redirect troops in Afghanistan.

Surely the rabid anti-war, America-hating left must be up in arms over Barack Obama's war of choice, right? Protesting with chants of "Obama and the Times lied; kids died," and all? Uh, not so much. 

To date, there has been no significant criticism from the antiwar left of the Democratic Party of the prospect that Mr. Obama will keep tens of thousands of troops in Iraq for at least several years to come. 

At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements this week from Mr. Obama and his national security team has been akin to the senior officer corps’ letting out its collective breath; the words sounded to them like the new president would take a measured approach on the question of troop levels.

The loony left is fine. They lied, the media lied and together they got their liar in the Oval Office. And the adults at the Pentagon breathe a sigh of relief upon discovering that Obama is not going to do what he promised. 

The lesson the public won't learn from all this: Never listen to these people again when they pretend to be serious and pricipled in their disagreement with Republican leadership. All they want is power. And they will tell whatever lies they need to in order to get it.