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Obama considering Iraq visit
Breitbart.com ^
| May 28, 2008
| NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 05/28/2008 5:13:41 PM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama is considering a visit to Iraq this summer, his first to the war zone since becoming a presidential candidate. Obama revealed his plans to The New York Times. He has been under criticism from Republican rival John McCain for failing to visit Iraq since 2006. Obama also declined McCain's invitation for a joint trip.
"I just don't want to be involved in a political stunt," Obama said, according to a report on the newspaper's Web site Wednesday.
"I think that if I'm going to Iraq, then I'm there to talk to troops and talk to commanders," he said in the interview. "I'm not there to try to score political points or perform. The work they're doing there is too important."
Obama's campaign has been considering an overseas trip since last year to beef up his foreign policy credentials, but the extended fight for the Democratic nomination with Hillary Rodham Clinton has delayed those plans.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blueturban; cicobama; iraq; mccain; obama
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
Which side will he visit?
To: PROCON
"I just don't want to be involved in a political stunt,"If I had been eating Rick Crispies, they'd be coming out my nose right now.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:15:13 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
To: PROCON
"I just don't want to be involved in a political stunt," Obama said, ...Obama is a political stunt.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:15:20 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: the invisib1e hand
gad. That’s RICE Crispies. RICE.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:15:38 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
To: PROCON
“The work they’re doing there is too important” ???????
Since when did he consider this anything but an ill fated boondoggle. The nerve of this POS
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: PROCON
“I’m not there to try to score political points or perform.”
What? So he performs here?
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:16:28 PM PDT
by
Disturbin
(Liberals: buying votes with your tax dollars)
To: PROCON
"
I just don't want to be involved in a political stunt"
English Translation: "I want to control a political stunt."
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:17:01 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
("I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the tooth fairy." - John Edwards)
To: the invisib1e hand
To: PROCON
The dude had better wear Depends.
10
posted on
05/28/2008 5:19:56 PM PDT
by
silentreignofheroes
(Old Dogs and Children,and Watermelon Wine.)
To: Disturbin
“Accompanying Senator Obama on his tour of the war zone will be funnyman Jerry Colona, beautiful Joey Heatherton, accordionist Myron Floren, and the Solid Gold Dancers.”
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:21:08 PM PDT
by
Argus
(Obama: All turban and no goats.)
To: PROCON
Why doesn’t he visit Tehran instead? He’ll get a much warmer reception and he will know he’s “among friends”....
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:21:12 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
To: PROCON
He’ll probably end up in Iran.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:21:41 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: PROCON
Just don’t go in June.
‘Cause nomination races can run through June....
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:21:55 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
To: PROCON
They’ll love him in Tikrit, what with the whole Hussein thing and all.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:23:22 PM PDT
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("a wee bit silly." -Lord Trimble on Hillary Clinton's claim of foreign policy "experience".)
To: Man50D
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:23:31 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Dog breath? I don't think so.)
To: the invisib1e hand
Obama’s uncle was called Rick Crispies.
To: the invisib1e hand
Going to Google Rick Crispies..
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:23:51 PM PDT
by
silentreignofheroes
(Old Dogs and Children,and Watermelon Wine.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:24:00 PM PDT
by
dk88
(Loud and local)
To: El Sordo
Maybe he feels safer over there than here.
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posted on
05/28/2008 5:25:14 PM PDT
by
maro
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