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Obama Gaffes on Iraq and Afghanistan
ABC News ^ | 5/13/08 | David Wright

Posted on 05/14/2008 6:54:22 AM PDT by Dawnsblood

As for the point about Arabic translators needed for Afghanistan, the Obama campaign points to the well-documented presence of foreign fighters there, many of whom do speak Arabic. However, these folks are mostly shooting at NATO troops, not talking to them.

No doubt there are a handful of Arabic speakers employed at Bagram and Kandahar and other detention centers to interrogate foreign fighters captured on the battlefield. But I have not seen any reports that there is a shortage of such personnel, or that the need for such translators in Iraq has hamstrung the interrogators in Afghanistan.

Foreign fighters captured in BOTH Iraq and Afghanistan have also been sent to detention centers such as the one in Guantanamo. Is there a shortage of Arabic translators there or at other U.S. detention facilities overseas? That would be an interesting news story. Again, I haven't seen any proof of it.

To reiterate: Obama's main point may well be fair: that Iraq has made Afghanistan tougher to win by stretching our resources too thin. But are these really the best examples for him to cite of why this may be the case?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; arabic; election; gaffe; iraq; obama; obamagaffes; potatoehead
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To: Dawnsblood

I work everyday with linguists, some of whom speak Arabic. And we’re pretty much barred from going to Iraq and Afghanistan. So there!


21 posted on 05/14/2008 11:31:35 AM PDT by tlj18 (Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President!)
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To: Dawnsblood

Foot in Mouth Disease. I can’t understand libs wanting to elect this moron, but he’s their gal.


22 posted on 05/14/2008 11:44:50 AM PDT by King_Corey (www.kingcorey.com)
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To: King_Corey
this is on ABC folks

the Klintoons must have pulled out the old FBI files or something...........

23 posted on 05/14/2008 11:51:00 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Yes, but it’s on ABC’s blog subsection. We’ll see if this item gets picked up by anybody else and gets any real coverage. It is a newsworthy blunder. Drudge?


24 posted on 05/14/2008 12:12:17 PM PDT by manapua
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To: VeniVidiVici
Next thing you know the Chimp will be saying they speak Sanskrit in China.

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25 posted on 05/14/2008 12:24:13 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

Yours is a racist monkey


26 posted on 05/14/2008 12:26:15 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie
Yours is a racist monkey

Ask me if I care.

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27 posted on 05/14/2008 1:05:00 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Dawnsblood

The ABC blog has been amazingly willing to show Dem gaffes recently, IMO. There was another recently. Maybe it’s just Jake Tapper’s doing, but it is nice to see some more fair coverage. Obama speaks well when it’s someone else’s words. He is lousy off the cuff.


28 posted on 05/14/2008 1:07:57 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Michelle O's handlers: "Get me white people...!!!")
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To: Piquaboy
Just another gaff to prove how stupid he is.

Not only is it a gaff, I am convinced it is a gaffe as well.

29 posted on 05/15/2008 6:00:22 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Sorry about that. I am one of those stupid rednecks with a gun rack in my pickem up truck.


30 posted on 05/15/2008 6:45:53 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: ASA Vet; BIGLOOK

This racist creep believes in 57 states and makes this statement re translators.

God Help US if he is elected.


31 posted on 05/15/2008 8:12:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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To: Piquaboy
Sorry about that. I am one of those stupid rednecks with a gun rack in my pickem up truck.

No worries. I was just having some fun. I misspell too sometimes when I get in a hurry.

32 posted on 05/15/2008 9:52:51 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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