Posted on 07/19/2008 9:05:33 AM PDT by kristinn
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Mr. Obama touched down in Kabul about noon, according to a statement released by his aides. His trip has been cloaked in secrecy, which advisers said was due to security concerns set forth by the Secret Service.
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The governor of Nangarhar province, Gul Agha Shirzai, a burly former mujahedeen commander with a brutal past but who is favored by the United States as someone who gets things done, was the only Afghan official to meet Senator Obama and Senators Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, and Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, at Jalalabad airfield along with the United States ambassador and generals.
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“Barak Obama thanked the officials of Nangarhar and the people of Nangarhar for eliminating poppy cultivation, fighting corruption, and he promised that the United States would give more help to Afghanistan and especially to Nangarhar,” he said by telephone after the one-hour meeting.
“I talked to him about our security and other development projects and programs that we have,” Mr. Shirzai said. “We also discussed some other important issues. I hope Nangarhar becomes an example for the other parts of Afghanistan.”
The senators flew back to Bagram airbase at 5 p.m., the governor said. At 6 p.m. two military Chinook helicopters landed at the United States embassy, as two more attack helicopters circled above. The senators are expected to stay the night in the Kabul embassy.
Mr. Obama’s whereabouts had been unknown since he departed Chicago. He left Andrews Air Force Base near Washington on Thursday afternoon, according to a pool report, and stopped and visited American troops in Kuwait on the way to Afghanistan, the statement from his aides said.
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No reporters accompanied him to Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For Julie and her liberal friends who don’t know the difference between a photo op and “a powerful image”, this is a big deal.
For neophyte, ideologs, like B.O., there will be no “learning” in this process.
He will simply wrap this photo op in the guise of “experience”, to further his existing bias.
The AP reports that Obama had a two hour stop at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. They quote a spokesman for the base as saying Obama met with soldiers and "constituents" and played basketball. He says the officers at the base gave a briefing to Obama.
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Something is not computing here....where was this table that appears in the photos...based on the report from Captain Shamrock on the other thread...seems if the table was there....it was very little more than a photo op...
Can there be any doubt that the terrorists prefer Obama in the White House?
A reporter at The New Republic writes today that it would have been easy to figure out where Obama is this weekend based on the Obama campaign's communications:
Those of us covering the campaign got an e-mail from Obama communications strategist Robert Gibbs a little after 3 this morning saying Obama had landed in Afghanistan. The timing of the trip had previously been shrouded in secrecy for obvious security reasons. But, in retrospect, I probably should have put it together (as I'm sure many of my more observant colleagues did). A little over a week ago, a Netroots Nation spokesperson told me the campaign had told her Obama was going to be out of the country during the conference, which was scheduled to run from Thursday through Sunday. Then, this week, the press was reporting that Obama would be in Jordan and Israel beginning Monday before heading to Europe later in the week. And we already knew Obama was headed to Afghanistan and Iraq at some point. That left a two-plus-day window in which he'd be out of the country before he was due in Jordan. Which basically had Afghanistan and Iraq written all over it if you were paying attention.
Campaign stop for Barry Hussein. Pure and simple.
Bush and McCain in Iraq are “propaganda”, Obama pics are “powerful and historic”. I’m so damned sick of leftists, Euro-turds and the media. I don’t need that idolized caramel Caesar wannabee as tyrant in chief.
For years the left have said Afghanistan has been "forgotten" by President Bush. Now after all these years B Hussein decides to go & visit for the first time????
Give me a friggin break!
***Mr. Obama touched***
They worship the ground he walks on. Not in a good way.
Bill Clinton wanna be.
Im sick of hearing about sissy boy 24/7.
Why, so they couldn't see him pray toward Mecca?
That’s because Obambi has been anti war for so long..Now he will use the images from this trip to make himself look like he’s finally strong on national security. enough to make one puke.
I think I am going to be SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another one grabbed from some FR’er:-)
Oh yeah — “powerful images” of the visit indeed! Hah!
This Obambi sojourn is about as ridiculous as that old comedy, “If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium.”
My question is why are taxpayers paying for Hagel when he’s leaving the Senate.
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