President Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Troops in Iraq - Video 4/7/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | April 7, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of President Barack Obama making a surprise stop in Baghdad, Iraq on his way back from his trip that took him to Europe and Turkey. The video shows Obama greeting U.S. Troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Obama met with U.S. Gen. Ray Odierno and was also to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Interestingly, an Associated Press story on his remarks says Obama said:

"We spend a lot of time trying to get Afghanistan right, but I think it is important for people to know that there is still a lot of work to do here," Obama said.

Just what he means by that we do not know, since he has already decided to remove U.S. Combat Forces from Iraq in the next 18 months. What still needs to be done, and how will it get done if we are withdrawing from Iraq? . . . . (Watch Video)

[NYleatherneck]

No offense... but it looks like a bunch of F’ing POGs, media, and air force broads.

Were all the warriors busy ?

[combat_boots]

“That is Flattering.. The Troops Looked like they had Guns held to their Heads.”

Thanks for the perspective.

Profound thanks for your service.

Boots

[combat_boots]

OK.

Here’s a Sam Kenison video for you guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GjyrQiSRs

I sure do miss Sam. He was inimitable.

“Sand!”

[Recovering_Democrat]

God bless you and thanks for your service.

So was everyone terribly excited about TOTUS coming into town, or did they have to drag people in to see him? ;-)

[Recovering_Democrat]

What is a POG? (you can FREEPmail me if you can’t post it...) :)

[True Republican Patriot]

Thank you, Its so Unimaginable to be a Soldier on the Front Line in Iraq and have this Two Bit Hack show up and pretend the adulatio after all the Horrible Words and Actions ZERO has expressed against OUR GREAT MILITARY and How He Cheered for Defeat in Iraq against OUR GREAT COUNTRY! How Dare ZERO Demean Our Great Military and Our Great America! Truly a Poor TOTUS is ZERO HUSSEIN!

[NYleatherneck]

personnel other then grunt.

It's a slang term for those non-infantry types that love to talk shit and show off their “I was there” ribbons.

[willyd]

I saw the footage...Barack was reading off a list of the different divisions that were present and they were cheering their own sections as he listed them.

They were not cheering him, they were cheering themselves as their group was called. To be fair there were some supporters there, but there were definitely some that were there to “show respect to the office of the president of the United States” and that’s it.

[Nateman]

The troop support was staged. Note how many blacks are in front? They asked Obama voters to come out front so naturally that draws allot of blacks. Notice how the digital cameras are mostly the same model? That's because they handed them out to the Obamanistas first.