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Obama in Afghanistan, sees 'light on the horizon'
Associated Press ^ | May 1, 2012

Posted on 05/01/2012 4:33:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as the war in Iraq has ended. "There's a light on the horizon," he told U.S. troops on the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.

After signing an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai setting post-war promises and expectations, Obama addressed Americans back home in the midst of his endeavor to win re-election as U.S. president and commander in chief.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; campaigntrip; obamaafghanistantrip; obamacampaign; obamaspeech
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1 posted on 05/01/2012 4:33:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is it shaped like a mushroom?


2 posted on 05/01/2012 4:38:08 PM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
After signing an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai setting post-war promises and expectations, Obama addressed Americans back home in the midst of his endeavor to win re-election as U.S. president and commander in chief.

He just signed up a whole country full of Democrat voters, and we're stuck paying for it.

3 posted on 05/01/2012 4:39:30 PM PDT by Sarajevo ( Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
After all these years OJkeko still can't pronounce tallaban.

He calls it tallyban. What an idiot.

4 posted on 05/01/2012 4:43:16 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Any Republican. Just NO Obama.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Darn...my TV went dead


5 posted on 05/01/2012 4:43:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Un-flippen-believable
This POS flys AF1 all the way to Afghanistan all for a quick election photo op.

IMPEACH!


6 posted on 05/01/2012 4:45:18 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Did I miss his speech?


7 posted on 05/01/2012 4:49:29 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yes, this light... Many of us see that too...
8 posted on 05/01/2012 4:51:37 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
George Stephanopoulos said that this war is the longest in our history.
Obama came on and said that, "Three years ago, the tide of the war began to change."

They have no shame at all. They just lie and lie and lie.

9 posted on 05/01/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, he’s on his “I got OBL tour”.

I’m surprised he’s invited anywhere. He must enjoy being the t*rd in the punchbowl.


10 posted on 05/01/2012 4:56:39 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The bastard flies in and back out of the country under cover of darkness in attempt to impress the American voting public. In the meantime our young men are stuck there for an indeterminate period of time, being pot-shotted daily by suicidal fanatics.

Way to go, CIC (or is that POS?)


11 posted on 05/01/2012 5:02:57 PM PDT by Walrus (Can a president be impeached for stupidity?)
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To: Sarajevo

He just signed up a whole country to promises
and expectations we know nothing about, makes
you feel all warm inside, kinda bilious too.


12 posted on 05/01/2012 5:06:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Salamander

After he leaves there will be a light on the horizon
all right, it will be Kabul burning.


13 posted on 05/01/2012 5:08:28 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Barack Hussein Ubama is the United States' first openly gay President.

Pass it on.

14 posted on 05/01/2012 5:08:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Walrus

Way to go, CIC (or is that POS?)

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It’s POS, and coward to boot!


15 posted on 05/01/2012 5:14:34 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
This stupid shit doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing”

This was the forgotten verse.


16 posted on 05/01/2012 5:42:18 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Salamander
>"Is it shaped like a mushroom?"

Pockystain is right next door, and they have nukes. It's not like they were taking billions of our money, while hiding OBL.

Our troops are massed in one big easy nuke target.

This would give her Fuhrer reason and need for his private civilian military.


His lies make me sick. When he tells the truth it is scary.

17 posted on 05/01/2012 6:35:26 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: rawcatslyentist

That pretty much sums up my point.


18 posted on 05/01/2012 6:57:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: Salamander
Three years ago the tide of the war began to change....,,

because of a surge he didnt vote for...or voted against.

19 posted on 05/01/2012 7:10:36 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Free ThinkerNY
That's nơt a horizon. It is a tunnel and we are scrambling back out of the mouth of it.
20 posted on 05/01/2012 7:33:17 PM PDT by arthurus
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