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
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Exactly.. There is something about Obama that scares me..
They are “exhausted and living hand to mouth” so hes going to throw them into the “real war”.
“How is deploying them right back to Afghanistan bringing them home?”
Perhaps he is hoping the quagmire called Afghanistan will catch the U.S. in the same trap the Soviets found themselves in. Many experts believe Afghanistan helped lead to the demise of the Soviet Union. Does he want the same for the U.S.?
It was certainly better than Bill Clinton’s. At least the ones we know about.
Obama’s just showing his appreciation for Orwellian math.
2 + 2 = 5
thus
4 + 4 = 10
Well he has already counted 57 states, so this one was easy.
“......Obama has demanded plans be drawn up immediately......”
Demand, DEMAND!!! What makes this punk get off on demanding anything? This arrogant a$$ can NEVER be allowed to become our president, never.
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The look on Obama’s face if he looses this election will be priceless.
Also - does anyone know of any othe presidential nominee that made a world tour and met with leaders prior to an election?
I can understand him going to Afghanistan to see the troops, but Europe and his speech in Germany - unbelievably arrogant. God, please help us.
Exactly.
Let's see how the media tries to gloss over that one.
Do a 12 month tour in Iraq then straight to Afghanistan? Who is Obama to demand anything?
Oh the media is so in the tank for Obama, they’ll find a way.
Precisely. “Bring them home, AFTER Afghanistan!” is not a catchy slogan for those who nominated him to end the war - the war he strongly opposed.
Obama seems to be quite the outspoken, impressionable young man. He’s ready to speak up on anything, and if he’s wrong, he speaks right up on that. ‘Speak first, we can always rethink it later.’
One brief glimpse of Afghanistan and he strongly announces a reversal of his foreign policy for the next decade.
Wonder if Osama really believes Obama threats?
Naaaaa, the Muslims might front that they are our friends, but they are hoping that Hussein wins in November.
You know, the guy who just said a year ago, I was a little Jakarta street kid, he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office [...]. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics and more likely to be aware of their nationalism if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (itll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.
Doubt Osama has an issue with that Obama comment. he he
Osama Bin Laden might be able to hide his preference for an Obama win this year a little better than he did in the 2004 election though. Obama knows that if he comes out in support of B Hussein Obama prior to Nov's election, it will hurt Obama.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/21/america/21obama.php?page=1
Osama must be very proud of Obama.
So when this dawns on his most fervent supporters from the left, what will their reaction be? Will they desert him in droves?
When the left says they want the war to end I don’t think they mean that it’s OK to substitute a new war for the old one.
I don’t think Obambi can keep up this charade for 4 more months. That halo is tarnishing pretty fast.
quote: So when this dawns on his most fervent supporters from the left, what will their reaction be? Will they desert him in droves? (unquote)
The dems with a conscience should sense the mistake and reconsider where Obama could take the nation. The most fervent will remain in denial, since ‘winning’ is the only thing to them.
It was Reagan, not Carter, who brought the Cold War to an earlier end. McCain is better equipped to resolve this than a totally inexperienced leader with a knee jerk foreign policy.
Praying hard that you are right.
But Obama wants to have a “surge” in afghanastan. I heard that it failed in Iraq.
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