Posted on 05/29/2008 10:12:55 AM PDT by wm_tate
On a Saturday afternoon--it was Jan. 7, 2006-- I got an alert from the office of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) that he would be doing a conference call with reporters from Baghdad. A little later, the call came through. Obama told us about how the plane maneuvered to land in Baghdad without becoming a target. Obama was on a swing through Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Israel and the West Bank, his first trip to the region. The travel was part official, part not. The Iraq stop was congressional business. Obama was visiting Israel with the Jewish Federation of Chicago.
Even though Obama had not been in Iraq long he met with western reporters in Baghdad and discussed Iraq on the conference call with reporters in the U.S. where he said there is no military solution to the war.
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Oh please.......Politicians, all of them go to Iraq and other places to enjoy being treated like Celebrities in foreign Countries, and to STAGE PUBLICITY EVENTS. To get some creds.
Only fact finding they do is go around the base and sit and watch some slides put together by the commanders. That’s it. Nothing you get from that, that you couldn’t get from official reports in the Senate.
What great facts or insights have any of these losers returned with? Just toe the official line.
Did any of these fact finders tell the people that we paid Al Sadr hundreds of millions, while we label him as the biggest terrorist in Iraq?
How about Sons of Iraq? Do people know that only few months ago, Sons-of-Iraq were killing Sons-of-America? Now about 90,000 of them are on US payroll.
Imagine a Democrat or Liberal President make those kind of moves. The whole Conservative world would erupt with outrage.
We won’t negotiate with terrorist. We would just put them on our payroll to by some time? Peaceful Election Year maybe? How long would this PAY-FOR-PEACE program last?
Fact finding missions my foot.
McCain blew this one--as he gave Obama way too much time to put together another good publicity stunt and recover from his obvious lack of knowledge about what's going on in Iraq. It's a shame McCain gave him such an easy 'out' on this one.
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.
Please read the entire article, you won’t believe it. Barry is such a tool that he couldn’t even stop campaigning in Iraq 2006. The SURGE worked, and he’s still “clinging” to the same old song...Defeat at any price!
“McCain should have ‘dropped that on him’ during the first debate”
You’re right. The Dems are so much better at hardball politics. It’s one reason their October surprises (Bush’s DUI, Weinberger’s indictment, etc.) always seem to work so well.
-Wm Tate,
http://www.atimelikethis.us/
Misleading post. That was their headline.
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D’oh! “That was * not * their headline.”
Now he's caught between Iraq and a hard place. McCain will walk the streets w/o body armor. What's Barry to do? If he goes along he proves Baghdad, Fallujah, wherever they go, is safe. All kinds of Iraqi officials could drop in to brief the Boy Wonder. Lastly, some enterprising reporter, probably from Fox News, would ask the Iraqis in the street if Barry's impressions of Iraq hold water.
McCain should extend the invitation to Hillary also. Add Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader too. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion but not his/her own facts. Let's have the troops and Iraqi officials provide the facts.
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