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On surprise Afghanistan visit, Obama says nation emerging from 'dark cloud of war' LIVE THREAD
FoxNews ^ | 5/1/12

Posted on 05/01/2012 4:08:36 PM PDT by Jean S

President Obama zipped through Afghanistan Tuesday on a previously unannounced visit, signing a key partnership document with Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he prepared to deliver an address to the nation on the anniversary of Usama bin Laden's death. 

In excerpts released in advance of the address, the president made sweeping statements about the course and eventual conclusion of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. 

"We have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon," he plans to say, praising America's troops and making a call to "renew America."

"This time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end," Obama said in the prepared remarks. 

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: bgill

the time of war began in Afghanistan, it will end here.

Oh yeah...
“the phony Prince of Peace”..I am beginning to think he really is the AntiChrist.


21 posted on 05/01/2012 4:45:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (NEWT in 2012)
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To: Oregon Coast Conservative

While I’m at it, about Obamer and that dog joke at the WH Correspondents’ dinner....

...it wasn’t funny.

I know Obamer thinks we are a bunch of rubes, lacking the cosmopolite experience to appreciate other cultures, culture that eat dogs. Surely we don’t get out enough.

When that line was put in Obamer’s book, I can almost see him, sloping against a door jamb, a lit cigarette hanging from between two fingers, eyes half-closed, hooded.

He was so cool it was like air conditioning standing next to him as he told about eating dog along with other foods he consumed in his worldly life that us dopey Americans in flyover country can’t possibly grasp.

I don’t want a president who was once so cool he ate dogs. Yeah I know he ate that first dog at age 6 but never is it mentioned when he STOPPED eating dog.

I’m not impressed by his coolness and I don’t think that him being so cool as to make a joke about such a think makes him wonderful either.

I’m jus’ sayin’.


22 posted on 05/01/2012 4:46:12 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Did he say when the troops will be home?


23 posted on 05/01/2012 4:52:47 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Fishtalk

Yeah, I agree 100%. I was actually wondering if the locals were hiding their dogs when they knew Obama was coming to town. Although, over there, they might only hide them because they don’t want to share. JK:) I think


24 posted on 05/01/2012 4:53:59 PM PDT by Oregon Coast Conservative
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To: Jean S

Will the role of Homeland Security and the fate of the TSA also be discussed among the ‘internationals’ in the upcoming Chicago meeting I have now just been made aware of?


25 posted on 05/01/2012 4:56:01 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Re: “Surprise Visit”

It was much cooler when Bush and Rummie did it.


26 posted on 05/01/2012 4:56:19 PM PDT by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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To: madameguinot

As long as it’s a free flight on Air Force one, the idiot will fly anywhere.

The crew must work 24/7 to keep the thing in the air.


27 posted on 05/01/2012 4:59:57 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: RS_Rider

Exactly right!


28 posted on 05/01/2012 5:00:50 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Venturer; madameguinot

I’m surprised Obama has not yet replaced the Boeing 747 Air Force One jets with Air Buses.


29 posted on 05/01/2012 5:09:11 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Jean S

Karzai is his Afghanny bundler now? Had no idea the DNC campaigned there.


30 posted on 05/01/2012 5:10:03 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Jean S

His dissociative disorder gets more critical by the day.


31 posted on 05/01/2012 5:14:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: DBeers

I was almost asleep with my eyes shut listening and heard him say “Chicago” and I sat up to see if he was off teleprompter and mis-spoke.


32 posted on 05/01/2012 5:15:22 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: DocRock
Is he really in Afghanistan? The video I just saw looked like he was standing in front of a green-screen with Army trucks in the background. I don't know if this will show up but this photo is interesting:

https://twitter.com/#!/BenFellerDC/status/197471349369876481/photo/1

The tweet: View of the president's speech for the press pool with him at Bagram Air Field. He's speaking to voters at home, not us

33 posted on 05/01/2012 5:21:02 PM PDT by Never on my watch (I'd rather light a candle than curse the flatulence.)
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To: Jean S
That Karzai is one snappy dresser!

Wonder if Obama has given Karzai an annual stipend to keep the look going on? That is separate with other money he probably gave him.

Karzai and his country are welfare recipients.

34 posted on 05/01/2012 5:21:20 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah - OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: Jean S

35 posted on 05/01/2012 5:31:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Fishtalk




It helps to remember that the Clinton-Bush coziness goes back to the days of Iran-Contra, when Papa Bush was supervising covert arms shipments to Latin America out of Arkansas (with drugs making the return trip) and Governor Clinton was busy looking the other way. Further, as was clear during abortive Republican investigations into various Clinton scandals, in the culture of impunity of Washington, politics stops at corruption's edge. Almost all major corruption is either bipartisan or common enough that one side can effectively blackmail the other.





36 posted on 05/01/2012 5:35:46 PM PDT by glock rocks (optimist , pessimist? I'm an awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
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To: Jean S

Wasn’t the speech for 7:30 CT? CBS hasn’t interrupted programming.

The text of his speech is online, FYI

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/world/asia/text-obamas-speech-in-afghanistan.html


37 posted on 05/01/2012 5:38:08 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Jean S

Yeah, right....except now we have a pResident waging war on us...


38 posted on 05/01/2012 5:38:54 PM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: madameguinot
“Re: “Surprise Visit”

It was much cooler when Bush and Rummie did it.”

Bush was way cooler than “the Obama” could ever be.
Every day and two times on Sunday.

39 posted on 05/01/2012 5:42:50 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah - OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: Jean S
1942 brave American men and women have fallen in Afghanistan....

since Obama took out Bin Laden

33 have fallen just this month.

What's this lifting the "Cloud of War" is Obama talking about.

40 posted on 05/01/2012 5:54:26 PM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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