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Obama’s Phony Photo Op In Iraq
Here’s a story you’re not going to read about in the NY Times or hear about on MSNBC (The Obama Network). You know the photo that has been plastered everywhere of Obama’s surprise trip to Iraq where all the troops are hugging him? It was staged — completely.
It turns out Obama’s so-called “surprise” visit to Iraq — wasn’t a surprise at all. Commanders at Camp Victory were told 24 hrs in advance the president was coming.
Then soldiers were asked to raise their hand if they voted for Obama and those who did were hustled into the meeting place to await Obama’s arrival. Officials even handed out cameras and told the soldiers to hold them up. You can tell in the photo that all the cameras are the same.
MacRanger over at Macsmind learned about this from a letter he received from a sergeant in Iraq who was actually there. Jim Treacher has some interesting analysis of it as well over at Hot Air.
What makes this particularly galling is that the liberal media has used that photo to brag about how much the troops love Obama.
I can assure you that commanders didn’t have to put people in place to welcome president Bush to Iraq. The troops knew their commander-in-chief supported their mission and they loved him for it.
Contrast that with Obama who visited Iraq after his overseas America bashing tour in which he repeatedly told European audiences that Iraq was a “distraction” that will be brought to a close soon enough.
I’m sure that made the soldiers who are still spilling their blood and guts in Iraq feel great.
-Chris Jones
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I think you’re being very misleading with this narrative. You’re suggesting a scenario where there are not members of the military that genuinely support Obama, and these sorts of events have to be staged, when the fact is that Obama received more contributions from Military personnel than any other candidate.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/08/troops-deployed-abroad-give-61.html
I’d also be pretty suspicious of an anonymous source quoted by a radio show blog that is dedicated to attacking Obama and the left.
Also, am I the only person with functioning eyes?
Of the two soldiers in the front, the black soldier looking at his camera’s picture, and the man with the dangling camera, the black soldier’s camera is twice as thick as the dangling camera.
Just because all the cameras are small, shiny, and silver doesn’t mean they’re all the same camera.
http://images.google.com/images?q=digital%20camera&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
Are you KIDDING me?
George Bush’s public appearances, military and otherwise, were highly controlled, crowd-filtered, even rehearsed events. Perhaps you forget this:
http://tinyurl.com/cco4wh
As for troops never having to wonder if Bush supported them – Please. We both know that isn’t true. Or perhaps you forget the soldier angrily asking where is humvee armor was? Or was picking over Iraqi landfills part of the genius Bush military plan?
And yeah, 24 hour advance notice of a presidential visit to a foreign country IS a surprise visit.
I don’t doubt the military has plenty of people who support Obama, but it’s not overwhelming like the left would have us believe.
I have many friends in the military who are currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. They tell me the vast majority of soldiers and marines support the president, but don’t respect him the way they did president Bush.
The excitement to see Bush was genuine. When he made real secret trips to Iraq he was mobbed by soldiers — and the left hated that. Officials never had to rustle up some soldiers who voted for him to greet him.
Hey Matt,
When Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq NOBODY knew about it until Air Force One was touching down in the middle of the night.