[ Breaking News ] Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

[jaxx]

By Kevin Sieff, Updated: Tuesday, May 1, 2:23 PM

KABUL — President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, landing on the one-year anniversary of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden and during a pivotal moment in U.S-Afghan relations, as the two countries look to define their military and economic ties beyond 2014.

Obama landed at Bagram air base north of Kabul at 10:20 p.m. local time and boarded a helicopter shortly afterward for a flight into the capital. He arrived at the Afghan presidential palace just after 11 p.m. local time for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. He was expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Karzai, then address the American people on live television at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Washington time.

<..> Karzai has long requested reassurance from Obama that American support would not wane after 2014, when the last NATO combat troops are due to leave the country. With the completion of a draft strategic partnership agreement last month — finished after more than a year of wrangling — Afghans are now eager for a public articulation of that long-term U.S. commitment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia...al_comboNP

Our President is a busy man.

[Peacetrain]

Just following that jaxx.. I guess this has been in the works for over 20 months getting ready to set up the perimeters for pull down..

[jaxx]

(05-01-2012 01:59 PM)Peacetrain Wrote:  Just following that jaxx.. I guess this has been in the works for over 20 months getting ready to set up the perimeters for pull down..

That's one thing I really like about the President, he plans ahead. There are no jerky movements when it comes to people's lives....ours and theirs.

[jaxx]

And there is Coburn on Ratigan talking about money!. I could just smack those repubs when they get all goody-two-shoes about their damn war. Coburn is crying debt.

[Peacetrain]

(05-01-2012 02:07 PM)jaxx Wrote:  And there is Coburn on Ratigan talking about money!. I could just smack those repubs when they get all goody-two-shoes about their damn war. Coburn is crying debt.

I can never watch Ratigan.. he just talks out of both sides of his mouth.. gets on my last nerve

[Born_A_Truman]

(05-01-2012 02:43 PM)Peacetrain Wrote:  

(05-01-2012 02:07 PM)jaxx Wrote:  And there is Coburn on Ratigan talking about money!. I could just smack those repubs when they get all goody-two-shoes about their damn war. Coburn is crying debt.

I can never watch Ratigan.. he just talks out of both sides of his mouth.. gets on my last nerve

Ratigan never tires of hearing himself speak. Have you ever heard a non-multi-compound question come out of his mouth?

[sandnsea]

Fact Sheet on the Partnership Agreement. It outlines the arrangement after the majority of all global combat troops leave next year. Oh, and fuck Dylan Ratigan and I told you he was *not* our friend after the first week of watching him.

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=2710

[jaxx]

(05-01-2012 03:26 PM)sandnsea Wrote:  Fact Sheet on the Partnership Agreement. It outlines the arrangement after the majority of all global combat troops leave next year. Oh, and fuck Dylan Ratigan and I told you he was *not* our friend after the first week of watching him.

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=2710

Thanks, that's the first I've seen on the agreement.

[suzie]

"...fuck Dylan Ratigan..."

Sandnsea, I love you. Not as much as I love Obama sticking it to the Republicans, though.

You go, girl.

[sandnsea]

Text of Obama's speech

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=2716

[Velleity]

Power politics baby!

I think they lured the Romney morans into their attack on him for killing bin Laden. Now the pukes can't match this and they look small.