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Obama meets troops in Afghanistan

Austin News.Net
Saturday 19th July, 2008

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has met soldiers serving in Afghanistan.

Mr Obama’s Middle-East and European tour began in Afghanistan at Bagram air base and then continued on to Jalalabad in the east of the country where he spoke to more US troops.

If he becomes US president in November, Mr Obama has said he will increase the number of American troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Later he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he recently accused of having too little interest in his country's reconstruction.

After his visit to Afghanistan, Mr Obama will fly on to Iraq where he will also see the situation for himself on the ground.

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wacama 3rd
07-20-08, 02:19 AM

Obama meets troops in Afghanistan

The visit of Obama is a joke in the first place. If he really a concern about foriegn
affair he should than the steps long before
he tried to be a presidential candidate. Obama should go back and put his bum box over his right shoulder and listen to the rap music and may be he will learn from the rappers poem.Wear his baggy pant and keep it cool. That is a sad move.

Osama Saladin
07-20-08, 07:32 AM

Bush had never traveled outside the USA before being elected president. - from viewer Jeffrey, New Orlean, LA
Why dont we hear about Mc Cain and his war record of collaboration with the enemy and McCain was an irresponsible pilot who crashed 6 planes, and started a major fire on an aircraft carrier through negligent action. McCain is known as Songbird McCain by those who were imprisoned with him. (http://vietnamveteransagainstmccain.com) He is the MIA/POW family’s worst enemy for his constant attempts to belittle their concerns and stifle their inquiries while serving in the Senate. He was intimately involved in the Keating 5 Savings & Loan scandal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five His McCain-Feingold Bill has destroyed much of the rights of people to take part in the political process the way they see fit. This bill remains un-Constitutional and a major affront to the First Amendment protections on the right of free speech.
I hope you vote Mccain I want to see you go into Iran and get your arse whipped and your dollar go even further as the world see’s who’s Ideas U.S people’s realy agree.




Serenado
07-20-08, 01:23 PM

Truth is tasteless.

Human survival instinct is their judgment, here reinforced by journalists, whether racist or non. Judging from the total failure in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Sudan, Namibia, Timbuktu etc. There isn’t a country or city that enjoys harmony and prosperity under an African Leadership of course this debate will get the blame machine going. US President Obama, give me a break.

kawahchan
07-20-08, 02:59 PM

Another round of Obama's Afghanistan War after Bush administration.

Since the Iraq War on liberation and Afghanistan War on terror, most of our American troops are taught to grow up and have been learning maturely enough to understand that what Obama hits campaign trail in Middle East is just a “cheap shot” to a black US Senator Barack Hussein Obama of Illinois who has NEVER visit the trouble war zone to study the situation of risks “before” he (Obama) voted DOWN TO AGAINST funding US military on every renewal; American people and Sen. JOHN McCAIN should tell Obama and the Iraqi PM Nourial-Maliki that you are too SHITTY to use our American troops in the war zone to play “your” politics, every US military service-man has his/her dignity.
UNLIKE the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama commits to American people who support his Obama’s policy to send in more brigades of US troops to FIGHT ANOTHER ROUND OF OBAMA’s WAR in Afghanistan after Bush administration. However the 2009 JOHN McCAIN administration in White House “may not” renew Afghanistan War to increase US troops to fight the Afghan mountain warfare, instead McCAIN presidency will consider to fulfill ...
1) 2009 McCAIN administration will re-evaluate US-Pakistan foreign aid, and US-Afghanistan foreign aid. How much Pakistan’s “loyalty” and Afghanistan’s “loyalty” to the United States of America ?
2) 2009 McCAIN administration will focus on crackdown the Opium and Heroin procucting in Afghanistan to undermine stop the funding source to the expandable Taliban and al-Qaeda re-grouping.
3) 2009 McCAIN administration will invite the Afghan village chiefs to White House to hold a summit to discuss about I) re-draw the Afghan village/county district; II) re-settle the Afghan villagers to a so-called US green-zone as a safety place to live; III) More pilot-less “Ikhana” patrols, McCAIN’s fighter-pilot experience to occupy the 3-4 a.m. sweet-dream hour’s airstrike Taliban and al-Qaeda. Pentagon under McCAIN administration will re-use the MOAB bombs to seal the Afghanistan’s caverns where al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden may be hiding.
**** TO SAVE OUR AMERICAN MILITARY LIVES, THE 1st YEAR OF 2009 JOHN McCAIN ADMINISTRATION IN WHITE HOUSE MAY “NOT” SEND MORE US TROOPS TO FIGHT AFGHANISTAN WAR ON GROUND OR THE MOUNTAIN WARFARE, INSTEAD TO EXERCISE THE U.S. AIR FORCE’s “TOTAL 3-D” AIR-POWER AT EVENING-MORNING HOURS.

Anonymous
07-20-08, 03:42 PM

Obama has visited these places before

For the benefit of Kawahchan this is not Obama’s first visit to the Middle East. Obama spent 10 days of non-stop talking with government and military leaders in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and finally Israel, in early January 2006.

Kashmir singh
07-21-08, 03:21 AM

Obma's visit to Middle east

Dear readers

it is nothing but Bush’s another copy is Obama . But one shhould remember that it is not war or terriosts but war on under-developed countries, they want to control whole world so that they will rule according to their wishes.

But how long they will do it. One have to see the history of the world what Russia the SOViet Union was doing during the 2oth centuries, and where is it today.

History repeats itself and now time has come that America will spilit into pieces like Russia in shorlty.


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