[STARWISE]

I think I could stay another 3 hours and find more news photos, but I'm confident I've captured the essence of the President's Day today. I hope you all think so. May God protect him and his party, until his safe return home to the USA.

I'll leave with a couple of photos that I find touching, and especially the sentiments in the first.

If it can snow in Baghdad for the first time ever in anyone's memory as it did this week, let's hold onto hope and to the belief that many things are possible. Many of the Iraqi's who experienced this were touched spiritually, and took it as a great sign of hope. May it be so .. dear Lord, let it be so.

"I rushed quickly to the balcony to see a very beautiful scene," he said. "I tried to film it with my cell phone camera. This scene has really brought me joy. I called my other friends and the morning turned to be a very happy one in my life."

This one of President Bush at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait is so impressive.

God bless Pres. Bush, Gen. Petraeus and our unparallelled troops as they fight darkness and sacrifice for freedom, all over the globe.

ALL CLEAR for posting or re-posting photos or appropriate graphics in keeping with the spirit of this thread.

[snugs]

Thank you for your wonderful thread this evening I know what a massive task it is when the President is abroad there are so many photos and it is not easy sifting through them.

[Kaslin]

Thank you for hard work in posting the pictures of our great president today

[Merlinator]

Those “snow in Baghdad” pics were really touching especially the one with the man holding the little boy. It looks like his jacket says “hope” on the back. I don’t think its any coincidence that this is the first time in 100 yrs that snow has fallen on Baghdad. I like to think the “angel in the whirlwind” sent it.