Posted on 12/26/2018 11:27:49 AM PST by bitt
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to American troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first journey to an active combat zone since he took office.
The president landed on Wednesday.
Trump visited wounded U.S. troops last Christmas season, on Dec. 21, 2017, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. He also that month invited Coast Guard members to play golf at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
But before Wednesday's trip to Iraq, Trump had taken some heat from critics for being the first president since 2002 not to make a Christmastime visit to troops in 2018.
He was also criticized in November for canceling a trip to an American military burial ground outside Paris in November due to weather. Two days after that, he skipped the traditional Veterans Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
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Oh for sure!
Re: “Strange...shes taller or same height as Trump in this picture.”
@ @ @ @ @
The camera angle and the diagonal lines on the ceiling create an optical illusion.
Spot On!
1. This type of trip had to have been carefully planned out, well in advance, even more than most trips, PERIOD!
2. This trip could not have taken place, at what most truly dumbtard leftists would have suspected on Christmas Eve or Christmas itself, as they would have literally tried to lend all of their efforts to get our President killed.
Just look at the various left wing sites all over the net. They literally tried to track the president, and ascertain where he was going, so as to get the word out to put him in danger! These are truly anti-American, anti-liberty, anti-moral, blood thirsty killers, bent on total destruction and elimination of all who will fight for what is right and good, and moral. This is the self prescribed anti-God, humanistic, socialist, enemy within our gates, we really face today.
George HW Bush, during The Gulf War, felt he had to try and stop Israel from retaliating for the several dozen SCUD strikes Saddam Hussein indiscriminately launched into Israel.
One of those Russian made SCUDs landed in Tel Aviv on a theater.
Saddam was hoping to get Israel to retaliate, so to break up the “coalition” of nations (several muslim) postured to fight him.
**At the time, one of the things President Bush did to pacify and support Israel, was fly Ethiopian Jews (who were being rounded up and or killed) back to Israel, using US Air Force transports. Some of them would be housed in UN contested Israeli “settlements”. I believe this air lift was referred to as “Wings of Eagles”!
By the way, I don’t believe any of Israel should be divided up, period. So I do not agree to the words “occupied territory” or “settlements” being used.
WOW! BLESS OUR TROOPS!
I LOVE OUR POTUS AND FLOTUS!
O.K., got to be the explanation.
You were right.
We disliked the Halfrican IMMENSELY, but we wouldn't have tried to get him killed over the Middle East.
Only Melania could pull off an outfit with boots like those and still look feminine and gorgeous. Love her!
President Trump and Melania look so happy in this photo!! One can only surmise that this is where he wants to be....with people who care about the future of our country as much as he does!
President Trump, you magnificent bastard.
True that!
It was a GREAT surprise......the joy on everyones faces was clearly apparent. I’m so glad they were there and enjoyed so much by the troops.
BTW Anyone else notice how very comfortable they both are with the troops besides me. I mean they are REALLY appreciated among our guys and it shows..two way street always when they’re with the troops.
Doesnt seem like a lot of military greeting him in any of these pictures. All closeups!
I saw that too. Not one angry frowning troop, looks like a nice time for all.
President Trump is now being criticized for exposing faces and location of a Special Operation Unit (Navy Seals)on active combat in Iraq. He posted pics on his twitter.
MSM press HEADLINE:
“Trump forces White Male Soldiers to KEEP African American Woman Down”
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