Posted on 07/26/2008 7:23:58 AM PDT by Bill Dupray
Only two facts matter in this little episode. First, Obama is a sitting U.S. Senator and can visit the troops any time he wants. Second, the only restriction on visiting the troops was that he could not bring reporters. Most importantly, it makes no difference what you call the trip.
"Senator Obama had hoped to and had every intention of visiting our troops to express his appreciation and gratitude for their service to our country," retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, an Obama adviser, said in a statement. "We learned from the Pentagon [Wednesday] night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event. Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perceived as a campaign event . . . and decided instead not to go."
The Pentagon said on Friday that it did not prevent an Obama visit.
"Nobody denied Senator Obama the opportunity to visit our wounded being cared for at Landstuhl. Obviously, as a sitting senator, he has an interest in that and can certainly visit in an official capacity," said Bryan Whitman, a spokesman for the Pentagon
Pathetic.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
He could easily have substituted the Balad AB field hospital (aka Anaconda) which is 30 minutes from the Green Zone (IZ).
It’s the originating point for **all** wounded being transported to Germany.
So! What else is new?
He wants to be the President of the United States, yet he cannot even plan a hospital visit.
Or he could have stopped at Ibn Sina (Combat Area Support Hospital) right here in the Green Zone. I mean, he was already here.
I guess he'd already gotten his requisite photo ops here, though.
If it’s not ALL about me I ain’t goin..
>>>>>>he could have stopped at Ibn Sina (Combat Area Support Hospital)
he DIDN’t GO THERE!?!?!?!
he’s a double twit, minimum.
He did not stop at the CASH????
That is a direct slap in the face. I guess most people don’t know about it so they were able to get away with it not making the news.
My brother says they do INCREDIBLE things there.
Those of us who have read the sequence of events know the Pentagoin had set up a private visit at Landstuhl for the Senator and a few of his Senate staff aides- but the Messiah’s retinue balked at waiting for him in an air conditioned fully stocked comfort room
Taking the media whores and your horde of strap hangers to gawk at helpless hospital patients while you philosophized about why the war was a mistake - would have been more than “perceived” as a campaign stunt Obama, you arrogant putz.
They've done a great job giving me various booster shots. ;-)
Actually, they saved a very good friend of mine's life early this year. Yes, they really do incredible things there.
It’s really just unbelievable that in all his time there, he didn’t go to Ibn Sina (a walk through the Green Zone) or Balad (20-30 minute copter ride) hospitals, and then came up with this cockamamie (but easily resolved) “roadblock” to visiting Landstuhl.
Pretty obvious that he really had no intention of visiting any hospitals. He is not liked by the troops in the field, and would be shamed by the wounded heroes.
Excuse after excuse as to why he did or did not etc.
Even IF the Pentagon in essence told him ‘no politickin’, the smart thing to do politically was to go anyway.
These people are really not ready for primetime in SO many ways.
Hey, I’m due for my next anthrax shot the same day I leave...
I'll put it this way...if he did, nobody knows about it. And I "live" very close to the CASH. And if Barry had gone there, there's no way it wouldn't have been trumpeted all over the place by the drive-bys.
(Isn't it funny how we have to say "Green Zone" so people will know what we're talking about? Nobody really says "Green Zone" here. Sometimes, we jokingly refer to it as "BHFGZ." Think the very standard media name for it. LOL)
You gonna do it?
I've got to get my next one next week. :-P
(At the CASH.)
There’s a surprisingly decent story about the Balad trauma hospital here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15605343
Not many people knew about it until that NBC reporter (name??) was injured while an embed and spent several days being stabilized there. Then (of course) there were a ton of stories about the lifesaving workk being done day-in and day-out at Balad.
I was very familiar with it (and sadly to the day’s injury trends) because my conex was close to it and directly under the helicopter flight path into the facility. When the occasional Pavelow (??? bigger than a Blackhawk) came in 50 feet above our heads I thought for sure we were gonna’ get sucked-up into the rotors, conex and all.
>>>Sometimes, we jokingly refer to it as “BHFGZ.” Think the very standard media name for it. LOL)
ha, good one.
we always called it Camp Cupcake or Camp Cappucino :)
although I know you get your fair share of incoming.
I have been very forunate so far with the shots, but don't want to push my luck.
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