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Obama Lands in Afghanistan In Surprise Visit
CNNi ^ | 5-1-12 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 05/01/2012 12:11:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf

President Barack Obama made a previously unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, the first anniversary of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan.

The president will make a televised address from Afghanistan at 7:30 p.m. ET.

The trip was Obama's third to Afghanistan since taking office. He visited in March 2010 and returned in December of the same year. He also visited Afghanistan in 2008 as a presidential candidate.

Tuesday's visit came at a particularly delicate time in relations between the United States and Afghanistan. The countries have been negotiating a strategic agreement that would outline the basis for U.S.-Afghan cooperation after most U.S. and allied troops withdraw in 2014.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; communist; obama; obamacampaignmode; surrender
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To: tcrlaf
I hope the American people haven't completely lost their sense of nuance, this bastard and his lickspittle friends in the news media are friggen clubbing us over the head with his lame "I killed Osama" campaign message.

Its nauseating and embarrassing at once.

21 posted on 05/01/2012 12:23:17 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: tcrlaf
You can bet the visit has more to do with “O” demanding DIRECT and PERSONAL input into selling our a$#es down the river for good and all where Asia and the WOT is concerned.

He wants to assure the complete and irreversible demise of US influence and policies in that part of the world.

It is really one of the many nails “O” has personally driven into our coffin.

22 posted on 05/01/2012 12:23:44 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: tcrlaf

The primary shame here is that he doesn’t put forth any action or effort to prevent future maiming of our soldiers in this area. He would rather our soldiers lose limbs than fight this war the way it needs to be fought.


23 posted on 05/01/2012 12:24:00 PM PDT by RushingWater (Let's have a brokered convention and page Sarah Palin)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Thats EMPEROR Obama to us peasants. Get used to it, his second term is going to be just awesome, especially after he opens our borders completely.


24 posted on 05/01/2012 12:25:42 PM PDT by Oregon Coast Conservative
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To: tcrlaf
What "strategic agreements" did we sign with Germany or Japan?

This whole 'partnership' approach that the leftist is taking is nothing more than a surrender of American superiority both moral and military -a leftist sacrifice of American sovereignty at the altar of international rule.

25 posted on 05/01/2012 12:26:00 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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26 posted on 05/01/2012 12:26:32 PM PDT by b4its2late (Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.)
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To: tcrlaf

Oh goody, another Obama speech!!! I can hardly wait!!! What’s the over/under line on the total number of “I”, “me”, and “my” in this latest gem? 100?


27 posted on 05/01/2012 12:27:21 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: tcrlaf

That’s funny. I just read this morning that, “Obama is absolutely NOT in Afghanistan”! Lies. Imagine that.


28 posted on 05/01/2012 12:28:09 PM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: tcrlaf

-—Barack “We Don’t Spike The Football on Dead Terrorists!” Obama spiking the football in Afghanistan, in front of the cameras.——

Woooooooowww... This may work with his peeps, but it won’t work on the mushy middle.


29 posted on 05/01/2012 12:28:09 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: tcrlaf
The president will make a televised address from Afghanistan at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Thanks for the warning!

30 posted on 05/01/2012 12:28:43 PM PDT by b4its2late (Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.)
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To: tcrlaf

Did he bring a film crew to shoot a campaign commercial?


31 posted on 05/01/2012 12:28:48 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: rockvillem

Announcement made after Rush goes off the air. Then they cancel the White House Press Brief for today. Can’t stand the heat... .get out of our White House!


32 posted on 05/01/2012 12:30:14 PM PDT by JFC
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To: baddog 219

Barack Hussein Obama’s “I KILLED OBAMA, BIATCHEZ!” World Tour...

There, I fixed it for you.


33 posted on 05/01/2012 12:30:39 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf
Given the 8 1/2 hour time difference between Kabul and DC, that means he's going to be speaking at 4 AM local time.

I'm sure our brave men and women will jump at the chance to join in the photo op.

34 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:07 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: tcrlaf

Obama's minions will have to disarm the troops again, like they did with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.


35 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:13 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: tcrlaf

Why didn’t Zer0 go to Gitmo’ to celebrate shutting it down ~3 yr ago?


36 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tcrlaf

Obozo can’t lead as he has zero leadership skills. However, he does know how to spend the taxpayer’s money for his own benefit.


37 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:42 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: baddog 219

Lovely...Nail the B**d


38 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Oregon Coast Conservative

Ironically, it has taken the entirety of my lifetime (roughly, from 1950 to now) for the evil in this world to work their slow, steady debasement and overthrow of this country.

It gave us strong leaders in the beginning like Truman and Ike, and then moved on to the Kennedy’s (a horrible bunch) and then to LBJ, the perfect polititican...then Nixon, then Ford. Then Carter and miraculously - Reagan who will never be matched again. Two Bushs and a Clinton later, we are faced with this country’s downfall under the treachery of Obama.

This man is now in the country where our soldiers have to guard their lives constantly. And now they have to be even more vigilent to protect his sorry ass. It is a damned shame.


39 posted on 05/01/2012 12:31:58 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“One of the few places on earth where it won’t be run by a Patel.”

Now thats funny, and oh so true.LOL


40 posted on 05/01/2012 12:32:38 PM PDT by Oregon Coast Conservative
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