Obama Cancels Schedule to Meet Returned Bodies of Fallen Troops

R.Zaragoza · 08-09-2011, 12:18pm

By Yochi J. Dreazen
Updated: August 9, 2011 | 12:57 p.m.

President Obama arrived at Dover Air Force base in Delaware at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday to honor the 22 Navy SEALs and eight other American troops killed in Afghanistan on Saturday when an insurgent shot down their helicopter. Reports from those at the scene indicate the president paid his respects to the soldiers in private.

Obama led a delegation of senior administration, Pentagon, and military officials to salute the flag-draped caskets of the troops who died this weekend in the worst single-day loss of the long Afghan war. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen led the military delegation, the Defense Department said, which also included the senior military and civilian leadership of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.

The crash in eastern Afghanistan also marked the largest death toll in the history of the U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees the SEALs and other elite units.

The soldiers' remains were returned to Dover in an "unidentified" status until they are positively indentified by the Armed Forces Mortuary Affairs Office.

The president canceled a visit to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Va., just outside of Washington, to talk about fuel efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy duty vehicles. Instead he met industry leaders behind closed doors at the White House this morning.

The air base at Dover is the central conduit for fallen Americans. The president had previously gone there in October 2009 to pay respects to 15 troops and three Drug Enforcement Agency operatives killed during a particularly bloody stretch of the war.

Obama Cancels Schedule to Meet Returned Bodies of Fallen Troops - Yochi J. Dreazen - NationalJournal.com

RetiredSFC 97 · 08-09-2011, 12:32pm

**** you. go golfing or something, just because this is a big news story you decide to go do a photo op?

What about all the other fallen troops.

You waste of human flesh.

Scissors · 08-09-2011, 1:11pm

(Obama does something wrong)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks!

(Obama does something right)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks! He's just doing it for the votes/photos/etc.!

bearstrail · 08-09-2011, 1:23pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scissors

(Obama does something wrong)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks!

(Obama does something right)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks! He's just doing it for the votes/photos/etc.!

Obama is a douche but

RedLS1GTO · 08-09-2011, 1:57pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scissors

(Obama does something wrong)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks!

(Obama does something right)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks! He's just doing it for the votes/photos/etc.!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearstrail

Obama is a douche but

What they said.

I can't stand Obama and will be the last to defend him, but in this case I don't see where he did anything wrong. If he scheduled the press to be there and posed for pictures and made some sort of political speech I absolutely agree that it was wrong but from what I can tell that wasn't the case here...

RetiredSFC 97 · 08-09-2011, 1:58pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scissors

(Obama does something wrong)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks!

(Obama does something right)
Right: Ha! See! He sucks! He's just doing it for the votes/photos/etc.!

Oh good lord!

question,

how many times has he greeted fallen service members at Dover?

should be real easy. you only have to use one finger to count with!

RetiredSFC 97 · 08-09-2011, 1:59pm

same question to you

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedLS1GTO

What they said.

I can't stand Obama and will be the last to defend him, but in this case I don't see where he did anything wrong. If he scheduled the press to be there and posed for pictures, I absolutely agree that it was wrong but from what I can tell that wasn't the case.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

Oh good lord!

question,

how many times has he greeted fallen service members at Dover?

should be real easy. you only have to use one finger to count with!

RedLS1GTO · 08-09-2011, 2:03pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

same question to you

And what would you have said if he wasn't there?

mrvette · 08-09-2011, 2:09pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

Oh good lord!

question,

how many times has he greeted fallen service members at Dover?

should be real easy. you only have to use one finger to count with!

THAT bad? that SUX.....

STILL think it's Biden's open mouth that caused this, and I don't give a shit WHAT story is spun off this.....

Will · 08-09-2011, 2:12pm

The POTUS should be there when they return.

Joecooool · 08-09-2011, 2:21pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

Oh good lord!

question,

how many times has he greeted fallen service members at Dover?

should be real easy. you only have to use one finger to count with!

Actually thats not true.

He has been there to greet the fallen several times.

Bush never went once.

RetiredSFC 97 · 08-09-2011, 2:27pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedLS1GTO

And what would you have said if he wasn't there?

The same thing I have said every time a fallen member returns home. What a pos he is.

So let me get this straight.

He has attened one homecoming in 3 years because he wanted a photo op.

he has just been handed a downgrading of our credit. he has no plans for anything, so he diecides he should attend a homecoming for fallen military members.

Ok I guess some people may be correct.

this POS will get elected because people don't have a brain and fall for this nonsense.

No wonder this country elected the pos to begin with.

I ****ing give the hell up.

RetiredSFC 97 · 08-09-2011, 2:28pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joecooool

He has been there to greet the fallen several times.

Bush never went once.

You're wrong.

Joecooool · 08-09-2011, 2:41pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by RetiredSFC 97

You're wrong. and a god damn liar. here i'll ban myself.

I posted the video above from 2009 when he went to Dover to greet the fallen. Bush never did this. Did you even watch the video?

Joecooool · 08-09-2011, 2:58pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxAg

Proof he never went?

All I have read is left wingers saying he didn't, saying people lied, but no proof has ever come up he didn't do it.

The video is from the AP and had you bothered to watch it, the reporter clearly states Bush never went to Dover to greet the fallen soldiers.

RedLS1GTO · 08-09-2011, 3:36pm

My opinion? (and I don't really care if anybody agrees with it or not.)

Some of America's finest and bravest men died. These men were in some cases friends and acquaintences of people on this very forum. The fact that somehow people manage to turn their deaths into nothing more than political stones to throw at each other is f**king pathetic, disrespectful, and shameful to their memories.

If Obama went today for publicity. Shame on him. To those using it as an argument against him. Shame on them. Using it as an argument against Bush, is no better... as well as COMPLETELY irrelevant to anything. Shame on you too.

...and no, I am not only talking about people here. I am talking about everybody who uses the death of these HEROES to gain political ground.

mrvette · 08-09-2011, 4:20pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joecooool

The video is from the AP and had you bothered to watch it, the reporter clearly states Bush never went to Dover to greet the fallen soldiers.

I NOTICE how you phrase that, never went to DOVER, well where ELSE did Bush GO>????

talk about creative misrepresentation that's it.....

Joecooool · 08-09-2011, 4:51pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrvette

I NOTICE how you phrase that, never went to DOVER, well where ELSE did Bush GO>????

talk about creative misrepresentation that's it.....

Don't know. Dover is where fallen soldiers are brought back into this country.

So for the purpose of this discussion, where ever else he went is irrelevant.

Joecooool · 08-09-2011, 5:10pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxAg

So reporter stated it so it MUST be true.

So other than taking the report's word on it, what else you got?

Jesus, can't you ever just admit it when I'm right?

mrvette · 08-09-2011, 5:34pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Don't know. Dover is where fallen soldiers are brought back into this country.

So for the purpose of this discussion, where ever else he went is irrelevant.

Oh, cute, so you are trying to use just ONE scene to make a point???

the background don't matter, it's the true support, and that remains clear....

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