Posted on 07/19/2008 1:15:44 AM PDT by F15Eagle
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama arrived Saturday in Afghanistan on the first stop of his tour of the Middle East and Europe, aimed at boosting the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful's foreign policy credentials, his campaign confirmed.
The U.S. senator from Illinois also plans to visit Iraq, although details of the trip have have not been made public for security reasons.
The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar. Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died in July in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fight with about 200 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.
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Birds of a feather and that sort of thing.
Please don’t come back. Thrown on a turban & stay with your own kind, Ears.
The Muslims should be chanting “Allah Akbar” by the time he passes by the Taliban enclaves.
He says it's best to assess the facts then form a strategy. Then, he goes right on giving his already formed strategy (without any facts yet).
The CNN scum just couldn’t wait to get the most recent deaths into the article. They are still hoping for a bloodbath.
Agreed. Wright was dancing on the podium on 9/16/2001, for all intents and purposes, saying white America got what it deserved. Which is one of the stupidest things anyone could ever say since Americans of all sorts died and were horribly injured on that day.
And Obama STAYED in that church, UNDER WRIGHT, for SEVEN MORE YEARS.
A child could connect the dots. But not the uber-liberal left of America.
WAKE UP AMERICA. STOP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID.
He’s an inexperienced idiot trying to pretend he knows what he’s doing.
Wonder if he’ll recite the muslim call to prayer while he’s there?
After all, Obama himself said it’s one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.
Is this clown the first pol that has went to the Middle East?
Notice how ‘’THEY’’ keep reminding us how dangerous a trip it may be.
They are GIVING HIM THE MOMENT HILLARY DREAMED ABOUT before he ever gets on a plane.
Amelia Earhart, Glenn Miller and Adm Yamamoto are coming to mind....or EVEN the SS MINNOW (as long as the Professor stays home)
Isn't this the kind of information the NY Slimes usually prints in huge letters on its front page? It's shocking they're actually going to try to keep a secret this time.
Good point!
And he knows it by heart.
But he assures us that he isn’t a Muslim, and never has been.
What's to stop him from suddenly "seeing the light" and "converting" right after his swearing in?
"Obama said that on his first day in office he would give the military a new mission: ending the war in Iraq."
why am I hoping the AQ will get lucky this week?
And the journalists are chanting "Obama Akbar".
After hanging around Democrats all his life he will now havve a chance to meet real men....and women.
I’m waiting for the first story about how Obama had to worry about sniper fire when he got out of the airplane. By the time the TV anchors get back to their perfumed thrones in New York, Barack Obama and Davy Crockett will be the same person, except that Davy had more advantages as a child.
“Im waiting for the first story about how Obama had to worry about sniper fire when he got out of the airplane.”
Well, Hillary got away with it for a while, so why not Obama.
When Barack Hussein Obama, PBUH, returns, I hope his first visit will be to the war torn city of Chicago.
drop him off in the Kunar - anywhere in the Kunar. Let him get a real up close and personal look...
Please, drop him in the Kunar...and I mean "drop"


"Before the US invasion, Afghanistan was a magical land where it rained candy-canes and gum-drops and was ruled by the powerful but wise Taliban wizards...But then Obama decided he must restore the magical wizards to their righteous place..."
I bet O'Bambi only visits two or three terrorist training camps while there.
Yep. Methinks it’s ingrained in him.
The Messiah decended to the poppy field and sayth: Hey, this
is some pretty good s-—!
Why is the media treating this like no other politician has ever been overseas? How will this trip make Barry any more qualified? Why can’t voters see when they’re being very royally duped?
Yeah, okay, these questions are rhetorical, but I just can’t help asking and hoping there may one day be an answer that makes sense.
Obama’s press secretaries, Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson, will be working hard to keep Afghanistan women in their burka’s out of the pictures.
Rock Star Obama.
Entourage
Messiah
Diarrhea
Any other word associations you want?
NOT!
Is Charlie Gibson going to pursue the tax issue?
Obama and Gibson Capital Gains Tax Exchange
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23137.html
GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.
So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
The press needs to sober up. I just went to Drudge- he’s usually “sleeping in” on weekends and yet there’s a HUGE headline “OBAMA LANDS SECRETLY IN AFGHANISTAN”...also a header with “Obamania grips Europe ahead of visit by ‘John Kennedy of our time’...
The press is engaged in willful manipulation of the public and it’s frightening.
I can only hope that Specialist niteowl77 Jr. is sleeping in today, so he doesn't have to put up with the dogs and ponies of Brother Love's Traveling Salivation Show.
Mr. niteowl77
No word on if the teleprompter arrived safely.
I can only hope that Specialist niteowl77 Jr. is sleeping in today, so he doesn't have to put up with the dogs and ponies of Brother Love's Traveling Salivation Show.”
HaHaHaHa! I love that dry wit. Please thank Specialist niteowl77 Jr. for his service. It is much appreciated and respected on this end of the keyboard.
Why would OBL want to off one of his own sympathizers? Maybe they can get together while he's over there and work out a plan for power sharing after January of next year. Obama, Osama, and Farrakhan would make a great triumvirate in the Oval Office doncha think?
All joking aside, the very thought of that guy as president of this nation scares the living daylights out of me. If he didn't scare me so much I wouldn't be planning to vote for RINO McCain next November, but there is bad and there is worse, and bad is better than worse. What a great pair of choices the idiot primary voters gave us huh?
Those visits will probably be limited to three or four by his own request. Walking on those rolled out red carpets while everyone claps and cheers gets tiresome I imagine.
I Have seen ZERO Communication That Obama was In Kuwait....
My Friend heard he stayed at a Hotel .. Thats Not near any of the Camps Bases I am aware of..... He Must have been dining with the Brass only... Wait till he Finds out no Champagne in Kuwait.... Too Bad he missed the Sandstorms.. earlier this week.. He Might Have gon Home and left the Campaign..haha
Well noted. I see Wright’s comments as more evil than stupid, but the two are intertwined.
Yes it is, but let's all just pray to Almighty God who has blessed and protected this nation for 2+ centuries that the American voters will come to their senses and this national nightmare will end next November.
Wouldn't it be great to go one week without seeing that grinning face on the front page of your paper every morning? I suppose that if God forbid Obamassiah is elected that will be the routine every morning for the next four years. I well remember the outpouring of adulation that JFK received from the media during his 1960 campaign and that RFK received during his primary campaign a few years later that was cut short by his assassination, and that was nothing compared to the outright worshipful adoration that Obamassiah is getting from them now.
Please add my thanks to your son. I pray to God Almighty that he comes home soon whole and in good health. He and every other American man and woman serving over there are heroes in my book.
In Iraq my prayer is that somehow he is boooooed by troops or face tough questions why he does not support their mission!!
What about a question regarding the FACT that Obama votes against all their funding.
I would like to volunteer to pack Obamas parachute on any possible sky diving photo op. No I have never packed a chute.
He spent all of 2 hours and 45 minutes in Afghanistan.
Maybe while O is over there he can address this American’s greatest concern. In Afghanistan, women are not allowed in the streets without escort of a male, are covered in black sheets there, and are on the same value of livestock in the eyes of men there. Will his Omajesti be addressing the 5th class treatment and enslavement of women while he’s visiting the motherland? Or would that be considered culturallllllllllyyyyyy intolllllllllllerrrrrrrrant.....(barf!).
Maybe Slobama will find Osama while he’s over there probably going to be searching about as hard as OJ is looking for Nicole’s.....oh yeah, righto!!
It was “Breaking News” on CNN that Obamessiah arrived in Afghanistan.
There is a creepy cult following this clown.
You know I don’t *actually* believe he’s the Antichrist.
However, for a guy to come from nowhere, with no experience, and this mass cult -— it’s creepy ... and just plain bizarre.
Gee, and he was part of an anti-Israel Church. Hmmmm.
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