Posted on 08/09/2011 10:21:58 AM PDT by maggief
President Obama has arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Tuesday to pay tribute to 30 U.S. service members, including 22 Navy SEALs, killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
Obama led a delegation of administration and military officials to salute the remains of the fallen troops, whose helicopter was shot down by insurgents Saturday. It marked the highest single-day death toll for U.S. forces since the long war began a decade ago.
The scene has been closed to the public and the press, with Obama's trip chronicled by a small group of pool reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
U.S. President Barack Obama salutes as he arrives at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware aboard Marine One, August 9, 2011. Obama flew to a Delaware air force base on Tuesday to honor the return of the remains of 30 U.S. troops killed when Taliban insurgents shot down their helicopter in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)
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Is that a smirk on his face? I bet Obama is happy with the 50th birthday present the Taliban gave him.
I thought there was a media blank.....guess the little boy king wanted what HE wanted.
I’m betting Gates is just sick. He really cared. And I’m not sure he really agreed with the hit on Osama.
“I thought there was a media blank.”
Ditto.
(”Never let a crisis go to waste.”)
For some reason one gets the feeling that Bam doesn’t really doesn’t give a damn about our troops. They are just a tool for his photo ops.
Note the first paragraph.
Please, no snark. Today, as President, he is representing all of us.
Mmmm.
I thought this was supposed to be a media free event?
Marine One sits on the tarmac next to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, August 9, 2011. Thirty U.S. troops died in a similar CH-47 in Afghanistan last week when it was shot down. Obama flew to a Delaware air force base on Tuesday to honor the return of the remains of 30 U.S. troops killed when Taliban insurgents shot down their helicopter in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
Please, speak for yourself only.
"You guys make a pretty good photo op."
That's his motive.
Obama is disgusting using these fallen heroes for a photo op!
He is representing himself.
White House Press members load onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Washington before flying to Dover Air Force Base with U.S. President Barack Obama, August 9, 2011. Thirty U.S. troops died in a similar CH-47 in Afghanistan last week when it was shot down. Obama flew to a Delaware air force base on Tuesday to honor the return of the remains of 30 U.S. troops killed when Taliban insurgents shot down their helicopter in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
It’s a photo op, covered by WH pool reporters.
He is wearing his wedding ring it appears.
He’s simply doing a job he doesn’t want to do..
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