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According to one of Obama's hometown newspapers, he spent most of his time in his lone trip to Iraq talking to reporters--making it, by definition, a publicity stunt rather than a fact-finding mission. -Wm Tate, www.atimelikethis.us
1 posted on 05/29/2008 10:13:11 AM PDT by wm_tate
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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.


2 posted on 05/29/2008 10:22:13 AM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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The more I think about it,,,,McCain's challenge to Obama about not being to Iraq since the surge....and not being briefed by Patreus was a big screw-up!! McCain should have 'dropped that on him' during the first debate!

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.

3 posted on 05/29/2008 10:22:41 AM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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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!


4 posted on 05/29/2008 10:23:31 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: wm_tate

Misleading post. That was their headline.


6 posted on 05/29/2008 10:32:14 AM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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Obama's only trip tip to Iraq a publicity stunt

To help prevent multiple postings, please don't change headlines. You may append comments in brackets or parentheses, though be aware that the title field imposes a 100-character limit.

7 posted on 05/29/2008 10:38:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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