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Obama Lands in Afghanistan, Will Visit Iraq
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by politisite | July 19, 2008 at 03:57 am
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3:15 AM et Obama Lands, Security High
Journalists were asked by the Obama campaign to hold off from reporting that Obama would visit Afghanistan and Iraq prior to his trip abroad next week until he landed safely in the region — which his campaign informed us early this morning that he has.
While a small “pool” of reporters was permitted to document his journey from Chicago to Andrews Air Force Base on Thursday, none made the journey abroad with Obama and Senators Reed and Hagael, as their visit is classified as a “Congressional Delegation,” funded by taxpayers.
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At approximately 3:15 AM Eastern/2:15 AM Central, I received a phone call telling me that Senator Obama had landed at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Since leaving Washington on Thursday, Senator Obama had stopped and visited troops in Kuwait.
What follows is a pool report by the Chicago Tribune’s John McCormick.
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at 04:07 on July 19th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:11 on July 19th, 2008
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===== HEY OBAMA - YOU'RE 7 YEARS LATE TO AFGHANISTAN =====
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George Bush was in Afghanistan 7 years ago, bombing the Taliban, al Qaeda and the terrorist training camps back to the stone age, and Obama (of the General Betray Us party) is just figuring out Afghanistan is the place to go? Where have you been for the past 7 years? What took you so long?
at 15:34 on July 19th, 2008
Wasn't Obama just out of University then, when the primary goal was to see how many beers you could chug?