Where Did All the Wars Go?
Is a coincidence that once President Obama took office most of the coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seemed to vanish from the news? Before we had day by day coverage. Body count after body count. Every error and mistake that was possibly made was covered (endlessly) with virtually no mention of the positive news stories. I have loved ones in the military and know people serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet suddenly you wouldn't think we were even there. One wonders why...
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- News Source: Middle East Security News | 5 months agoObama spoke Thursday at Cairo University in a major foreign policy speech, in which he laid out a broad stance on his hopes for Middle East relations. Obama has based the early parts of his presidency on a policy of engagement, seeking to repair...
- News Source: Press TV | 5 months agoThe Pentagon has announced that the number of US contractors affiliated with the defense department is growing dramatically, a Russia Today report revealed on Friday. The US outsource personnel working for the US private companies like Blackwater and...
- News Source: Voice of America | 5 months agoPresident Barack Obama has visited the Buchenwald concentration camp, where Nazis killed an estimated 56,000 Jews during World War II. Mr. Obama walked the grounds and left flowers at the death camp in Germany Friday with German Chancellor Angela...
- News Source: Des Moines Register | 5 months agoI am very disturbed by the direction our country is going in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We need to reverse course and end the Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan wars. The United States is digging in for more warfare, rather than...
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- Blog Source: lubbockonline.comAs recently as February, Defense Secretary Robert Gates repeated U.S. commitment to the agreement worked out with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "Under the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government, I intend to remove ...
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.com“Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world,” Obama said, repeating the US government's promise to withdraw troops from the country by 2012. ...
- Blog Source: www.thedailyjournal.comWhile portraying the invasion of Iraq as "a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world," Obama also said he believed the Iraqi people were better off without Saddam Hussein. ... about the United States ' role
- Blog Source: www.ips-dc.orgThat claim might have had legitimacy if it reflected more than a tiny pittance of the current $97 billion of war-funding the Obama administration has requested for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars just through September. ...
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Video Source: xml.truveo.comObama’s Iraq war strategyVideo Source: xml.truveo.comJuly 21: Barack Obama’s overseas trip moved from Afghanistan to Iraq ... - Video Source: www.truveo.comObama’s Message To MideastVideo Source: www.truveo.comIn an extraordinary address in Cairo, President Obama called for a new ...
- Video Source: www.truveo.comObama Dealing with ...Video Source: www.truveo.comDuring a prime-time news conference, President Obama marks his first 100 ...
- Video Source: www.truveo.comObama Makes His Pitch To ...Video Source: www.truveo.comPresident Barack Obama made his pitch to the Muslim world on Thursday. It ...
- Video Source: xml.truveo.comBattle over war fundingVideo Source: xml.truveo.comJune 4: Hypocrisy Watch: The Obama administration and Congress are debating ...
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Very well put!! Are we still there? After all Obama did promise we would turn tail and run. And if we still were there wouldn't the unbiased news still be reporting it? Surely he wouldn't think his followers are so slow they won't notice if it just isn't being covered any longer!
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