Obama Tells Troops: Time to ‘Transition to the Iraqis’

"You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own as a democratic country. That is an extraordinary achievement."

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April 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm - Fox News
Dateline: Baghdad, Iraq

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Cognitive Dissident   April 7th, 2009 - 2:18 pm

Obama, you are just trying to kiss up to them because you are the President and they are our brave men and women in uniform.

Its disgusting! How dare you!

(oh, right, what else would you be doing?! Nevermind…)

Matt   April 7th, 2009 - 2:20 pm

What a load. He did everything he could to undercut the troops, the supplies, and their effort while a uber-liberal never there senator. He still won’t admit the surge worked. Now, he’s behind them? I know guys in the service who would turn their backs on him if he tried to address them. The con man continues. How embarrassing.

GiveMeLiberty   April 7th, 2009 - 2:36 pm

Pleeeeeeeese!!! This makes me want to loose my lunch! After a week of denouncing his own country on every stop he’s made, he has the audacity to stop in Iraq trying to act like a commander and chief?? It sickens me to the core! This man’s ego is so out of control I want to scream. His arrogance is what led him to Iraq. I’m just sorry he received such a warm welcome. I’m still trying to figure out why he wants to be POTUS when he so blatantly dislikes America!!

kmichaels   April 7th, 2009 - 3:00 pm

WHAT THE MORON COGNITIVE PISSIDENT seems to miss time and again is that Obama was very very very weak on lending any kind of support in our efforts in Iraq, so it is his disingenuous now that is so dishonest and bogus. Not only did Obama hope that Bush would fail in Iraq but so did most other liberals. And I suspect you yourself were a real lame arse about the whole Iraqi thing, also hoping for failure with the standard liberal angst of being proven wrong about Iraq. You self-serving liberal twits made Iraq an issue of politics in order to enhance your propped up image. Now, Obama will not hesitate to take credit for anything good that happens to Iraq.

kmichaels   April 7th, 2009 - 3:12 pm

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WHAT THE MORON COGNITIVE DISSIDENT seems to miss time and again is that Obama was very very very weak on lending any kind of support in our efforts in Iraq, so it is his disingenuous now that is so dishonest and bogus. Not only did Obama hope that Bush would fail in Iraq but so did most other liberals. And I suspect you yourself were a real lame fool about the whole Iraqi thing, also hoping for failure with the standard liberal angst of being proven wrong about Iraq. You self-serving liberal twits made Iraq an issue of politics in order to enhance your propped up image. Now, Obama will not hesitate to take credit for anything good that happens to Iraq.

Other   April 7th, 2009 - 3:16 pm

I am neither a fan nor supporter of Obama but:

-If you read about current defense spending, Obama is canceling expensive non-functioning defense contracts (ie F-22) and redirecting that money to the troops in the form of health care for wounded, and equipment that is known to work. He also authorized 16 army brigades to stand at full troop levels. Usually they just summon up reserves.

- Its his job to visit the troops. Like him or not the troops expect him to show his face in-country once in awhile.

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Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   April 7th, 2009 - 3:38 pm

DON’T FORGET TO GET INVOLVED IN THE APRIL 15TH TEA PARTY IN YOUR AREA. FIND OUT WHERE AT: http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=a6386a2f-6bb2-4ee5-b230-b46b54c887e4
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Oh yeah…Saul…tell them “it’s time to turn over a “free” Iraq to the now “free” Iraqis!…and then don’t forget to tell them…”now on to Afghanistan!”

Iraq is successful because the “surge” worked…but you have never admitted that…because it wasn’t under your watch!

Now, being the hypocrite you are, you show up to support the troops and to thank them for making the surge successful!

America…we need that birth certificate and now!

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Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is a strict conservative and has not been afraid to stand up and speak out.

Please join me and email him that we want him to ask for it. It would be require bravery to do so, but it required bravery for our founding fathers to do what they did.

If it is proven that he is not a citizen, it will NEGATE each and every damaging thing he has enacted so far.

It is our only avenue at this point and it must be done!

Here is the page for you to express yourself (my note to him is also listed, feel free to use mine or do one in your own words:

PLEASE NOTE: HIS EMAIL PAGE DOES NOT ALLOW FOR ANYONE EXCEPT WISCONSIN VOTERS TO CONTACT HIM HERE. BUT YOU CAN GET AROUND THAT BY PUTTING IN YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND CITY…WHEN IT COMES TO THE ZIP CODE…PUT IN HIS OFFICE ZIP – 53140 – AND IT WILL GO THROUGH.

IN ADDITION, CLARIFY THAT YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF …….STATE BUT WANTED TO HIM TO HELP AMERICA OUT!

http://www.house.gov/ryan/email.htm

Dear Rep Ryan…we in America cannot help but feel…we are losing our liberties, we are losing our freedoms and we are losing our sovereignty…our great nation is being sold to the highest bidder by Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama.

We are disgusted by our President going overseas and dissing our great country. It is just what Europe wants to hear and he said it.

We are disgusted that our President BOWED to Saudi King Abdullah putting himself ,and our country ,into a subservient role to this Islamic Muslim leader.

He is destroying our great country and it needs to stop.

We see the only alternative is to remove him from office before he completes the destruction of our great country, is to prove that he is not a citizen of the United States of America.

To date, he has not provided the “original” birth certificate that is under lock and key and vaulted in Hawaii and we want to know why. America wants to see that certificate. Our great Constitution calls for the President to be a legal citizen, but it makes no provision for him to provide it.

We are asking YOU to step up and ask for it on behalf of all of us. We need an official government member to do it and we want YOU to do it.

We are desperate…we are on the brink of losing our great country under the hands of Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama.

Please help us…keep America great!

claspur   April 7th, 2009 - 4:31 pm

You know, I heard that tape on radio earlier today, have you payed attention to how you hear these troops respond?
Initially, thought He was talking to Iraqis?

He’s talking BS at supply-support troops.

JOhn   April 7th, 2009 - 5:20 pm

dude who posted as “OTHER” – Obama is cutting health care for soldiers. He wants insurance to pay for it. His is a liberal he does not care about our soldiers. They are not his troops, under the Constitution they are our military.

Eileen a Broken Record   April 7th, 2009 - 5:25 pm

EILEEN:
TAKE YOUR MEDS AND SEEK COUNSELING! I’m not concerned for your safety, I’m concerned about what might happen if you finally snap.
You post Thousands of pointless paranoid, driveling comments on Breitbart every day.
GET HELP TODAY!
(And get a JOB, perhaps, then, you wouldn’t spend all of your time sapping our welfare/unemployment/disability system and spending your days spreading worthless rants on the internet.)

reinaldvallejo   April 7th, 2009 - 5:26 pm

I am a conservative who did not vote for him and am against 99.99% of his policies, but I do think that he is listening to Robert Gates and is doing some good things for the military. He is wrong about Iran of course, but I think he does have an intelligent and open mind to what the military leaders have to say. Let’s pick and choose our battles wisely. If by a slim chance Obama does do something right, let’s at least acknowledge that instead of the common knee-jerk reactions.

Military Family   April 7th, 2009 - 5:35 pm

I don’t care what you choose to believe. We have 3 relatives in Iraq, they all want to come home (Brother-in-Law is on his 3rd tour and barely knows his 5 year old daughter.) and they all voted for, and continue to support President Obama. 69% of US Troops polled in Iraq are pleased with his performance so far. So who are all of you people saying that he doesn’t have the support of the troops? Definitely not military.

Whatwhatwhat   April 7th, 2009 - 5:36 pm

The troops absolutely LOVE their NEW Commander In Chief!!!!

You right wingers can bite it!!!!!

Cognitive Dissident   April 7th, 2009 - 5:40 pm

oh my oh my. the AP has a photograph of the troops gushing over Obama. Hey- are these troops racist? Somehow I don’t think so!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/2/24f9e6d1-d0b0-4a43-b2fa-c49849c8968b.html?SITE=NCAGW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

TruckerMatt   April 7th, 2009 - 9:49 pm

I’m not surprised by the adolation, all the photos are mostly black troops adoring the president, very few whites and no NCO’s or Officers at all…..

Far Right Wing Wacko   April 8th, 2009 - 1:38 am

hey TruckerMatt,

It looks very diverse to me and obviously to FIX noise. Are you being somewhat raciest by suggesting the rest of our Military troops if were not mostly black, would not appreciate a visit from their Commander In Chief? If so, then you are EXACTLY who the Conservative Repthuglican’t movement is looking for in a new white leader! That’s because the Republican Party Leader Michael Steele is also black! Oh no! What are you going to do now????

Here’s some facts to enlighten your day:

The Commander in Chief and considered by most to be the most powerful man in the world President Obama, is black.

The head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, is Black.

The best known media mogul on earth Oprah Winfrey, is black.

The greatest golfer in the world, Tiger Woods, is black.

The top female tennis players in the world, The Williams sisters, are black.

The highest $ grossing actor worldwide, Will Smith, is black.

The brightest Astrophysicist under the sun, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, is black.

The SupperBowl winning head coach, Mike Tomlin, is black.

One of, if not the most succesfull and most worldly renound brain surgeon in the world, Dr. Keith Black, is black.

The fast human to run on land is black.

I could go on, but after your hideous incinderary remarks, why bother? Point proved!

And the Far Right Rethuglican’t hypocrisy comedy parade continues…..

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   April 8th, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Dear Far Right Wing Wacko…better known as a worshipper of the Nation of Islam’s Messiah…aka…Saul Alinsky Obama…aka…Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama…but then what’s in a name? The names say it all!

Your comments about all the blacks in our society that have been successful in our great nation proves that caucasian Americans are “not” racist!

It is also about the blacks being totally racist for “anything” black. The people that adore Saul Alinsky Obama the most are the uninformed and ill-informed blacks.

The blacks have notoriously been courted by the Democratzi throughout the years…because of their uninformed and ill-informed status.

The majority of them do not watch the news or could care about politics or what is or is not happening in our world.

They only care about “what you can do for me”….”not about what I can do for my country”!

The Democratzi know this…and keep them struggling along on government handouts to keep them voting for them.

Now…the government of Saul Alinsky Obama is giving them more and promising them more…he is setting himself up for the next election.

I had one person say that I should give up on the “birth certificate” issue…that if it was proved he was not legal and he was removed…there would be riots in the streets by the blacks.

I can tell you this…if this garbage that is coming out of Washington continues at the pace that it is…there will be rioting in the streets regardless and they won’t be tea parties!

America taxpayers are angry…more than angry. All you need do is to read any blogs on any site to find out how America really feels.

The Democratzi and Republican slugs in Washington just haven’t got it…but they better wake up and smell the coffee…it is almost done!

America has had enough…of Saul Alinsky Obama and his henchmen passing one big spending bill after another putting us into deeper dependence on the government he runs. He had better stop dissing our great nation to our enemies to appease them and just to make himself look good and righteous…not like the rest of us evil Americans.

He has shown his true colors by BOWING deeply to his spiritual leader…King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia putting himself into a subserviant role to this Islamic Muslim King.

America…foolishly and blindly elected the first Islamic Muslim leader in our great “Christian” nation when we are at war with radical Islamic Muslims! Radical Islamic Muslims that killed over 3,000 of our citizens on 9/11!

We are fed up…and we are mad as hell…and we don’t intend to take it any longer.

We will use our power at the voting booth to get rid of each and eveyone of them that goes against the American taxpayer in favor of the destructive policies of Saul Alinsky Obama.

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JUST ANOTHER PATHETIC DAY IN THE “REIGN OF BARRY HUSSEIN” AND HIS MARCH TO TAKE DOWN AMERICA ONE BILL AT A TIME AND ONE DAY AT A TIME!

Where is JOhn?   April 8th, 2009 - 1:50 pm

Service members would receive a 2.9 percent pay increase under the proposed 2010 budget released today by President Barack Obama.

The $533.7 billion Department of Defense budget also would expand funding for disabled veterans, allowing more to receive retirement pay and disability compensation at the same time. It also seeks to improve care for wounded service members and establish a national registry for tracking traumatic brain injury cases.

kmichaels   April 9th, 2009 - 12:53 pm

The typical dem take on the military is to decrease funding the military as to actually making the USA more secure but to toss military people themselves some additional handouts in order to buy some votes.

Dems make the nation weaker with the hopes of buying votes to make their party stronger. This is how dems operate. This is how Obama operates.

Obama hopes to say in power and does not care if the US military is weakened in the process.

Hopey Dopey Obama is what is known as a self-servant, not a public servant.

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