Posted on 04/03/2009 11:01:22 AM PDT by LottieDah
STRASBOURG, France – Welcomed with thunderous cheers, President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to repair damaged relations with Europe, saying the world came together following the 2001 terrorist attacks but then "we got sidetracked by Iraq."
"We must be honest with ourselves," Obama said. "In recent years, we've allowed our alliance to drift."
The new U.S. president said that despite the bitter feelings that were generated by Iraq, the United States and its allies must stand together because "al-Qaida is still a threat."
At a town-hall style gathering before a French and German audience, Obama also encouraged a skeptical Europe to support his revamped strategy for rooting out terrorism suspects in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and said Europe should not expect America to shoulder the burden of sending in combat troops by itself.
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Dunno about you but with Zer0, it (headline) kinda sounds like “I’d hit that!” or “Wouldn’t mind a piece of that”, etc.
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Every day it’s a new atrocity.
I’m sick of this sob putting America down.
We ought to throw his sh*t out of the White House into the street while he’s gone.
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Hang on folks......he’s going to stick you right where the sun don’t shine.
He’s trashing our troops at the same time. They should all quit.
I’m sure he means Relations in the Biblical sense (with US on the receiving end....)
Hmmm...the French and Germans ousted their far left leaders during the Iraqi War and elected new ones to the right.
If they really hated Bush's policies that much why elect rightward-leaning politicians?
That’s only half the lede.
“Obama pledges new US relations with Europe, sales of condoms skyrocket in European Capitals”.
Never thought of that! It’s a good idea.
I’m a coward though and want to live until we actually do throw him out. He is a commie and a damm muzzie .
I heard him, and I hate him, his wife and his two daughters.
ML/NJ
Europe is going to the right and we get this POS!
Three months in and I’m good and sick of this guy already.
Nothing. The USA will probably have to rescue them like we did in WWII.
Bambi may have “relations” there but the rest of us don’t have to
His daughters have nothing to do with this.
He said at his presser yesterday that it was his job as the American president to convince the American people that our future is tied to the rest of the world.
In otherwards. Our sovereignty no longer matters. We must become one.
I guess he is going to cram it down our throats with help from his MSM propaganda department. Thats our prize.
They have his blood!
I'm suspicious because this actually makes sense (other than his "revamped strategy", since we don't really know what that means).
Is this a case of "War is OK as long as it is a Democrat War"?
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