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malaise

(268,556 posts)
Tue May 1, 2012, 03:12 PM May 2012

Breaking: Obama fuggs them up again lands in Afghanistan - will address Americans at 7.30pm tonight

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha - Poor Rmoney!!!


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577378080052874406.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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President Barack Obama arrived unannounced in Afghanistan Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in a raid he ordered one year ago on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.

The trip is the White House's latest effort to commemorate what the president's advisers see as his crowning national security achievement. It wasn't publicly announced for security reasons and comes at a time of fresh scrutiny of the decadelong war in Afghanistan following a series of incidents this year that have strained relations between the U.S. and the Afghan government led by President Hamid Karzai.

Quran burnings at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan in February set off a wave of deadly protests and prompted an apology from Mr. Obama. Weeks later a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant was accused of shooting to death 16 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children. And last month photographs depicting U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead Afghans were publicly circulated, reminiscent of images released in January showing U.S. troops urinating on Afghan corpses.

Mr. Obama faces political pressure from a war-weary public as he runs for re-election this November, while Mr. Karzai has come under pressure of his own as the U.S. presence in Afghanistan verges on 11 years. At the same time, efforts by the administration and the Obama campaign to mark the anniversary of the bin Laden raid have brought charges from Republicans that the president and his aides are inappropriately using the anniversary for political gain.

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Breaking: Obama fuggs them up again lands in Afghanistan - will address Americans at 7.30pm tonight (Original Post) malaise May 2012 OP
Who remembers the response on DU when Bush went to iraq the first time lol nt msongs May 2012 #1
Was that the time with the fake turkey? dmr May 2012 #2
Yep malaise May 2012 #3
lol, I'm really laughing out loud now! dmr May 2012 #4
Fall down funny indeed malaise May 2012 #6
Man talk about your all time staged photo ops! Initech May 2012 #11
That should twist a few knickers. Lugnut May 2012 #5
Sadly, it won't be the only thing that gets twisted. GoCubsGo May 2012 #7
Romney will say it was his idea for President Obama to visit the troops in Afghanistan NNN0LHI May 2012 #8
Meanwhile, Rmoney ate pizza w/Rudy 9/11 Giuliani at a NYC firehouse today Bozita May 2012 #9
Mitt must have his magical underpants in a twist aint_no_life_nowhere May 2012 #10
K&R Tarheel_Dem May 2012 #12
Rmoney is left holding a box of cold pizza C_U_L8R May 2012 #13
Tweety is having an orgasm on air malaise May 2012 #14
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #15

malaise

(268,556 posts)
6. Fall down funny indeed
Tue May 1, 2012, 03:25 PM
May 2012

Willard should have taken one of his private planes with St Rudy of 9/11

GoCubsGo

(32,069 posts)
7. Sadly, it won't be the only thing that gets twisted.
Tue May 1, 2012, 03:37 PM
May 2012

They'll try to twist and spin this to their own advantage, just like they're trying to do with the OBL killing. But, I think it's going to just make them look even more petty than with the current whining. It'll be fun to watch.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
10. Mitt must have his magical underpants in a twist
Tue May 1, 2012, 03:44 PM
May 2012

The Commander In Chief visiting the troops in the field is so divisive, I tell you.

C_U_L8R

(44,972 posts)
13. Rmoney is left holding a box of cold pizza
Tue May 1, 2012, 05:06 PM
May 2012

Hilariously outmaneuvered...
What a chump this Willard is.

malaise

(268,556 posts)
14. Tweety is having an orgasm on air
Tue May 1, 2012, 05:57 PM
May 2012

Look at the smiles of the troops - genuine smiles - and he's right about that.

Fugg the ReTHUGS!

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