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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
He promised to keep the troops in Iraq. Is that wrong as well?
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No, of course it's not wrong. However, it took him two years to do this. He spent 78 days golfing in Florida and 58 days golfing in New Jersey, but yet somehow in the past two years he wasn't able to find the time to visit troops in a combat zone?
This obviously wasn't planned - In fact, he was supposed to be with his family in Florida for Christmas. He canceled the trip because he wanted to make it look like he was doing something to end the government shutdown. It's amazing how he had to cancel his vacation to work on the government shut down, but yet he was able to sneak away to Iraq. It's also amazing how he was able to go to Iraq without Jared, his point man for the "Middle East Problem". I guess that wasn't so important being as he spent so little time on the ground there that he didn't even get to visit with any Iraqi government officials, because, you know, fuck our allies.
In the process of the entire trip he made a complete ass out of himself. During a press interview he made it sound like it was all about him and about how dangerous it was; Cry me a river. Then he lied saying he gave out the only raise to the US military in the past ten years. Then he exposed how a navy Seal group was secretly active in Iraq (because, you know, fuck secret military deployments) and also exposed exactly who they were. If all of this wasn't bad enough... Some of the activity he did with US troops violated military rules about political events while in uniform. It's perfectly acceptable for US troops to hear the President speak while in uniform, but when in uniform members of the US military may not engage in political acts - such as asking the president to sign these silly red baseball caps.
There is nothing wrong with the President visiting US troops in a combat zone, in fact, it should be encouraged. But the reality here is he us US troops for political gain and made a complete ass out of himself in the process.