|
Politics & Religion Discussion of politics and religion |
|
Share | Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
08-09-2011, 12:18pm | #1 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #0000
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Rockaway N.J
Posts: 3,481
Thanks: 1,805
Thanked 317 Times in 261 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $260381
|
Obama Cancels Schedule to Meet Returned Bodies of Fallen Troops
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 |
||||||
08-09-2011, 12:32pm | #2 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #63
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Harrisburg/Columbia, Mo
Posts: 1,586
Thanks: 110
Thanked 290 Times in 187 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $32270
|
**** 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. |
||||||
08-09-2011, 1:11pm | #3 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Washington D.C. area
Posts: 3,487
Thanks: 403
Thanked 547 Times in 324 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $366874
|
(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.! |
||||||
08-09-2011, 1:23pm | #4 | ||||||
Vette Barn Crew
|
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 1:57pm | #5 | |||||||
C4 Mod
Barn Raising II,III
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH ....ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑBE....
Posts: 13,875
Thanks: 1,312
Thanked 7,733 Times in 3,443 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $19752494
|
Quote:
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... |
|||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to RedLS1GTO For This Useful Post: |
08-09-2011, 1:58pm | #6 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #63
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Harrisburg/Columbia, Mo
Posts: 1,586
Thanks: 110
Thanked 290 Times in 187 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $32270
|
Quote:
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! |
|||||||
08-09-2011, 1:59pm | #7 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #63
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Harrisburg/Columbia, Mo
Posts: 1,586
Thanks: 110
Thanked 290 Times in 187 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $32270
|
same question to you
Quote:
|
|||||||
08-09-2011, 2:03pm | #8 | ||||||
C4 Mod
Barn Raising II,III
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH ....ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑBE....
Posts: 13,875
Thanks: 1,312
Thanked 7,733 Times in 3,443 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $19752494
|
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 2:09pm | #9 | |||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 60,710
Thanks: 32,894
Thanked 11,561 Times in 5,701 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
Quote:
STILL think it's Biden's open mouth that caused this, and I don't give a shit WHAT story is spun off this..... |
|||||||
08-09-2011, 2:12pm | #10 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #15
Fantasy Football Champ '11,'13,'17
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Somewhere between mild insanity and complete psychosis.
Posts: 7,972
Thanks: 319
Thanked 2,447 Times in 1,241 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1050381
|
The POTUS should be there when they return.
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 2:21pm | #11 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 2:27pm | #12 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #63
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Harrisburg/Columbia, Mo
Posts: 1,586
Thanks: 110
Thanked 290 Times in 187 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $32270
|
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. |
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to RetiredSFC 97 For This Useful Post: |
08-09-2011, 2:28pm | #13 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #63
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Harrisburg/Columbia, Mo
Posts: 1,586
Thanks: 110
Thanked 290 Times in 187 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $32270
|
You're wrong.
Last edited by Will; 08-09-2011 at 2:47pm. Reason: Name Calling. See Rules Sticky. DISAGREE RESPECTFULLY |
||||||
08-09-2011, 2:41pm | #14 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 2:58pm | #15 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
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.
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 3:36pm | #16 | ||||||
C4 Mod
Barn Raising II,III
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH ....ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑBE....
Posts: 13,875
Thanks: 1,312
Thanked 7,733 Times in 3,443 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $19752494
|
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. |
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to RedLS1GTO For This Useful Post: |
08-09-2011, 4:20pm | #17 | |||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 60,710
Thanks: 32,894
Thanked 11,561 Times in 5,701 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
Quote:
talk about creative misrepresentation that's it..... |
|||||||
08-09-2011, 4:51pm | #18 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
Quote:
So for the purpose of this discussion, where ever else he went is irrelevant. |
|||||||
08-09-2011, 5:10pm | #19 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
|
||||||
08-09-2011, 5:34pm | #20 | |||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 60,710
Thanks: 32,894
Thanked 11,561 Times in 5,701 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
Quote:
the background don't matter, it's the true support, and that remains clear.... |
|||||||
|
|
Support the Barn: |
Download the Mobile App; |
Follow us on Facebook: |
||