Let me be perfectly clear, this visit to Landstuhl had nothing to do with the troops. The visit was all about ME. Since the media could not show ME healing troops while there I decided it was best for ME to forgo this visit.
Posted on 07/31/2008 4:36:39 PM PDT by flyfree
Today, Dr. Danny Jazarevic, who served as the Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl, issued the following statement on Barack Obama's canceled visit to Ramstein and Landstuhl:
"Last week, Senator Obama skipped a visit with wounded U.S. troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany because the Pentagon would not allow campaign staff or media to accompany him into the hospital. I served as director of trauma surgery at that hospital for nearly four years and saw the effect that a visit from a celebrity like Senator Obama could have on morale. During that time, I do not recall a single member of Congress canceling a visit with the troops despite being just a few hours away, but Senator Obama seems to have been more concerned with how the visit would affect him than how it would affect the soldiers recovering from wounds received in the service of their country."
Dr. Danny Jazarevic served as the Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. In 1984, Dr. Jazarevic joined the United States Army and later the Florida National Guard. He has since served in Honduras, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, and Iraq. From December 2002 through January 2006, Dr. Jazarevic was assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where he served as Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery. During this period, he deployed to Iraq numerous times, including with the 101st Airborne Division Forward Surgical Team and as Director of Operations for the 44th U.S. Army Medical Command. He is currently the Chief Trauma Surgeon at a civilian medical center in Florida, and also serves as a full Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Jazarevic has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
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The Snopes fans on FR will charge in and debunk this in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Obama is not CINC material.
I love it. This guy used the word “celebrity”!
Gee, I guess Obama didn’t actually get word from the Pentagon(this is about the 100th time we have heard this from someone, other than democrats)that he couldn’t visit after all. Wow, imagine that!
Obama is a scumbag.
Another first for the Great Messiah!
I don’t know, Old Sarge...this doesn’t seem like debunking material. Should be pretty easy to authenticate.
However, there was an email from an anonymous soldier talking about Obama’s visit that DID have all the hallmarks of a hoax. I saw a bunch of variants of it...in one, it was a Special Forces guy, in another, it was a Marine, and in yet another, it was a Ranger. So I wasn’t really going to pass judgement on that one, since I agreed with it and thought it must have been accurate in any case.
This one seems more concrete to me.
Obama is a arrogant, America hating, shifty, crafty, self-serving, know nothing, egomaniacal, encroaching,Europhile scumbag.
vaudine
Does America want a Commander in Chief or a Celebrity in Change?
Look on the bright side of this. Our troops did not have to undergo the trama of an Obama photo op.
Correction: Celebrity in Charge.
Worse still, in Berlin Obambi was only 600 km or 360 miles away, less than an hour by air. He could have dropped in on Landstuhl between sessions on the b-ball court and his shopping or nightclub excursions around Berlin. He has no excuse, it's just that he and his aides threw a fit when they could not dictate to the US military how things would be.
vaudine "
Quoted because it is so true.
This is not going away. I bet Obambi wishes he could throw his Landstuhl debacle under the bus along with Ludacris, Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Pfleger - the list goes on and on.
Visiting these heroes would have been a PR disaster for his campaign if word every got out the way he would have been received
messiahs aren't dissed or ignored
Let me be perfectly clear, this visit to Landstuhl had nothing to do with the troops. The visit was all about ME. Since the media could not show ME healing troops while there I decided it was best for ME to forgo this visit.
“I gots ta’ go shoot hoop man. Gots ta go shoot dem hoops. Dats what’s mos’ ‘portant ya know. Screw whitey!
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