Posted on 07/20/2008 2:43:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
Senator Barack Obama has demanded plans be drawn up immediately for US troops to be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Visiting Kabul on the first stop of his first major overseas trip since winning the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Mr Obama described conditions in Afghanistan as "precarious and urgent".
"I think the situation is getting urgent enough that we have to start doing something now," he told CBS television. "We can't wait for a new administration otherwise it will be a year before new troops arrive."
Mr Obama, who is also due to visit Iraq during his eight-day tour, sought to seize the initiative on foreign policy from his Republican rival Senator John McCain, a Vetnam War veteran. Mr Obama met American troops and held talks with President Hamid Karzai, key elements of his trip to two war zones that is intended to convince doubters at home that despite his inexperience he is a plausible future commander-in-chief.
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Mr Obama has placed defeating the Taliban and al-Qaeda at the centre of his foreign policy. But in an unfortunate reminder of the worsening violence in Afghanistan, Nato admitted yesterday that its forces accidentally killed at least four civilians in the country's east, while coalition troops mistakenly called in air strikes against Afghan police, killing nine.
Mr Obama did little to disappoint critics who accuse him of arrogance. He said the objective of the trip was to "hold substantive discussions" with national leaders "who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years".
He added: "It's important for me to have a relationship with them early."
After Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Obama will visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and finally Britain in a grand tour that is attracting unprecedented scrutiny for
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This big-eared dumbo doesn’t have a clue.
Obama and U.S. Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed spent an hour and 45 minutes today with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his top aides in the presidential palace in Kabul, including a working lunch of traditional Afghan rice, lamb and chicken, spokesman Humayun Hamidzada told reporters. Obama left Afghanistan after the meeting without making any public comment.
He (Obama) also called for more aid to rebuild the war- torn the country, such as money for roads and an electrical network.
This morning on MSNBC the host was talking about McCain and said here is a clip of what McCain said.
Instead the clip was the Joker from Batman. What biased bastards they are.
Wonder what the anti war crowd is thinking right about now.
This idjit can’t buy a clue. Not a shred of intelligence.
Yeah, a campaign trip to change term limits ..he’s going to be president for 8-10 years!
Barack, he changes the levels of oceans, the climate of the globe, starts a civilian national security force, and adds a year to a president’s term ...
So... Now Barry wants to repeal the 22nd Amendment??? Whoa... there Barry O.
The Media really has pumped your head up just a tad bit too much.
You could at least wait until you get elected to do that sort of stuff, and here’s hoping that you never do. The last thing America needs is another narcissist (see Bubba Clinton) as President. LOL
I thought the media couldn’t get more sickening...(check this out)
Twist editor Laura Varon Brown has an exclusive interview with Michelle Obama
“By the time we got around to what the definition of success is, I felt like I was talking to my girlfriend.”
German Politicians Criticize New Venue For Obama Speech in Berlin
Andreas Schockenhoff, deputy head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, told Sunday paper Bild am Sonntag: “The Berlin Victory Column is dedicated to the victory over neighbors, who today are our European friends and allies. To me that is an unfortunate imagery.” Rainer Brüderle, deputy leader of the Free Democrats said in the same paper, that the column was moved to its current location by Adolf Hitler. Brüderle added: “For him (Hitler) it was a symbol of German superiority and victorious wars over Denmark, Austria and France. I ask myself whether Obama was well advised to choose the Victory Column as a venue for a speech about his vision for global cooperation.”
http://blogs.dw-world.de/acrossthepond/michael/1.6834.html
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: In an appearance on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace,” possible vice presidential pick Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., tried “not to make news” when asked if Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., presidential campaign has requested documents from him as part of a vetting process.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/bayh-trying-not.html
Sen. Dumbo Dumb*ss.
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is still formulating his positions on a number of key issues of particular interest to Latinos and Latin Americans.
Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer is anticipating a “shift to the center” in the coming weeks in Barack Obama’s “Latin American rhetoric, including a less strident opposition to the Mexico and Colombia free trade agreements, and a more persistent criticism of Cuba and Venezuela’s authoritarian regimes.”
Bayh is certainly high, if not the candidate, on Obama’s VP list as was noted by a FReeper on the Sunday Morning Talk Show thread.
Afghanistan experts say John McCain and Barack Obama are clueless
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048293/posts
Warmonger!
Updated | 8:30 a.m. BERLIN The Berlin beauty pageant is over. And on this Selection Sunday, the angel won.
Berlins Siegessäule, or Victory Column, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background.
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Mr. Obama will meet privately with Mrs. Merkel during his visit and is expected to be joined by Berlins popular mayor, Klaus Wowereit, for his speech. German government officials who have been in contact with the Obama campaign and political experts expect Mr. Obama to hew to the tradition of leaving politics at the proverbial waters edge and not campaign overtly in a foreign country.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/barack-obama/
According to the Obama campaigns announcement, the senator will give a major speech on the historic U.S.-German partnership, and the need to strengthen Transatlantic relations to meet 21st century challenges.
Time for a remake.
Obama believes his own PR. I keep getting the impression he may have forgotten who brought him to the dance or who sent him on the job interview. He's going to step on his d*(k big time.
I think you're in the majority about his cluelessnsess.
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