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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 03, 2010, 10:28:31 AM
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President Obama on Friday is making a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan as casualties mount since the U.S. escalated the war last year
Obama is in the war-torn country to meet with President Hamid Karzai and Gen. David Petraeus just days before a critical review about the nine-year war.
The U.S. deployed an additional 30,000 troops to the country, with all them in place by this summer.
The higher casualty numbers reflect heavier fighting, especially in the south and east, as NATO forces push deep into insurgent strongholds in a bid to help President Hamid Karzai's government gain control of more areas of the country and reverse the Taliban's momentum in the nine-year war.
Obama's visit to Afghanistan is his latest trip abroad since his party took a beating in the midterm elections last month. After Republicans captured the House and increased their ranks in the Senate, Obama took a 10-day, four-country trip to Asia that produced mixed results. Then he traveled to a NATO summit in Portugal.
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/03/obama-makes-surprise-visit-troops-afghanistan/)
He was also supposed to meet face to face with Karzai, but that was cancelled due to inclement weather, so it will be by video conference. Could have done that from the White Mosque, no? Then maybe he could have acted like a leader and pushed for something to be done on taxes.
3 out of country trips since the elections. He sure doesn't like DC much. I do hope this doesn't interfere with his Hawaii vacation.
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Nothing this human does anymore pleases me or ever did. You know he did this just for photo opps.
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I have decided that since Zero spends half his time flying around the world that I'm gonna start calling him The Flying Imam.
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I have decided that since Zero spends half his time flying around the world that I'm gonna start calling him The Flying Imam.
:cheersmate:
Oh now....I like that!
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I have decided that since Zero spends half his time flying around the world that I'm gonna start calling him The Flying Imam.
HA HA!! :-)
H5!