Think again, America:
"Obama’s visit to Afghanistan took place against a backdrop of tension between Karzai and the Americans.... Karzai warmly received one of America’s most vocal adversaries, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, on an official visit to Kabul in early March and met with him again this past weekend in Tehran when the two celebrated the Afghan and Iranian new year together....
AmeriKa's MSM coverage selections are amazing, huh?
Yeah, dump this in the middle of the piece hoping no one will read it, NYT.
Last week, Karzai made a three-day trip to China, a country that is making economic investments in Afghanistan, notably its copper reserves, taking advantage of the hard-won and expensive security efforts of the United States and other western nations....
Well, we will just have to go to WAR with CHINA then!
So we are SECURING the AREA for CHINESE INVESTMENT, 'eh, America?
That is why your SOLDIERS are DYING?
“He’s slipping away from the West’’"
Oh, THAT is why Obomber so suddenly flew halfway around the world.
Has he visited Indonesia like he was supposed to before the health care hell?
Meanwhile, see what COVER STORY S*** the MSM is shoveling:
"Obama presses Karzai in surprise Afghan visit; Wants more steps against corruption" by Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times | March 29, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama personally delivered a pointed criticism to President Hamid Karzai in a face-to-face meeting yesterday, flying here for an unannounced visit that reflected growing vexation with Karzai as America’s military commitment to defeat the Taliban insurgency has deepened.
Obama’s visit, which had been shrouded in secrecy and lasted only a few hours but included a boisterous pep rally for American troops, was the first trip by him as president to the site of an eight-year-old war he has stamped as his own....
Yeah, he is ACTING and SOUNDING MORE like George W. Bush every day!
And don't worry, the American people now view these wars as HIS WARS anyway, and hold him WHOLLY RESPONSIBLE from here on out!
The visit capped a high-profile week for Obama, in which he achieved a singular victory domestically — signing health care legislation — and reached an arms control agreement with Russia that calls for the two powers to slash their nuclear arsenals to the lowest levels in half a century.
Yeah, bully for him.
Obama’s visit to Afghanistan took place against a backdrop of tension between Karzai and the Americans that has not substantially abated since Karzai was declared the winner of an election tainted by fraud.
What, after we validated his stolen election?
The United Nations, the US, and other NATO countries have demanded that Karzai make major overhauls in the electoral system, tacitly indicating that they might withhold money for the next election if they do not see changes.
This is MSM BULLSHIT, readers!
Karzai recently overhauled the election complaint commission, but made it less neutral by giving himself the right to appoint all five members. Currently three of the members are appointed by the United Nations. The move infuriated some Western diplomats here who saw it as almost a taunt.
At a conference in London at the end of January, Western officials made it clear that they felt Karzai had fallen short on the issue of corruption. Recently, he has strengthened the anticorruption commission, and the attorney general appears to be moving forward on a handful of high-profile cases involving former government figures. Still, corruption remains pervasive, and Karzai has not used his position as a bully pulpit to change the culture.
“He’s slipping away from the West,’’ said a senior European diplomat in Kabul.
And THAT is why OBAMA WENT!
Karzai warmly received one of America’s most vocal adversaries, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, on an official visit to Kabul in early March and met with him again this past weekend in Tehran when the two celebrated the Afghan and Iranian new year together.
Karzai returned to Kabul only hours before Obama landed.
Last week, Karzai made a three-day trip to China, a country that is making economic investments in Afghanistan, notably its copper reserves, taking advantage of the hard-won and expensive security efforts of the United States and other western nations.
Air Force One landed at night at Bagram Air Base after a 13-hour nonstop flight for a visit kept secret for security reasons, and Obama quickly boarded a helicopter for Kabul.
Did Obama happen to look in on the torture chambers while he was there?
And thanks for warming up the planet some more.
White House officials did not give advance notice of the trip and even went as far as telling reporters that Obama would be spending the weekend at Camp David with his family.
Oh, so THIS WHITE HOUSE DECEIVES the MSM just like the LAST ONE, huh?
Yeah, some change!
In fact, the president’s trip occurred during the Afghan night, and he was flying back to Washington before most Afghans awakened this morning.
Besides General Jones, Obama was accompanied by Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, and a number of other officials from the White House and the Defense Department.
Yeah, the MOSSAD MOLE making sure the agenda is advanced.
Obama also met with about 2,500 of the tens of thousands of American troops who have been sent to Afghanistan since he took office. His visit with the troops is particularly significant because American combat casualties in Afghanistan have risen sharply while he has been commander in chief.
Why, MORALE LOW?
In the first three months of 2010, at least 83 American service personnel have died in Afghanistan, compared with 43 in the first three months of 2009, according to icasualties.org, a database of casualties in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
The number of military personnel wounded in combat has also spiked dramatically. Military officials have warned that casualties are likely to continue to rise sharply as the Pentagon completes the deployment of 30,000 additional forces, under the strategy that Obama announced in November.
Casualties are higher, military officials said, because American forces are aggressively seeking out Taliban insurgents in the country’s population centers, and are planning a major operation in Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban, in the coming months.
There is that spiritual thing again.
Civilian casualties also have risen sharply.
Who?
Yesterday hundreds of Afghans rallied outside a government building in Kunduz Province to protest a NATO air strike in the country’s north that killed seven police officers last month, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry said six civilians were killed Saturday in two roadside bomb explosions, including one in Sangin district and one in Nawa district.
Yup, you get all of ONE PARAGRAPH near the ass end of the NYT PoS, civilians of Afghanistan.
You know, the people we are "helping."
“Al Qaeda and their extremist allies are a threat to the people of Afghanistan and a threat to the people of America, but they’re also a threat to people around the world,’’ Obama told the troops. “My main job here today is to say thank you on behalf of the entire American people. You are part of the finest military in the history of the world. And we are proud of you.’’
Bush leave behind a cue card for you, Obomber? Sound just like him!
And if we are so great, why is Iraq and Afghanistan taking so long?
What is he going to say when the crumbling AmeriKan Empire falls?
For the American troops, the visit by their commander in chief was a long time coming.
Yeah, you tell 'em, NYT!
After all, it was YOUR LIES that got them sent there!
While Obama visited troops at Camp Victory in Iraq three months after he was inaugurated, the White House had held off on a presidential trip to Afghanistan as Obama went through a rigorous months-long review of Afghanistan strategy, and as that country endured the twists and turns of a disputed election.
I'm not interested in MSM apologies or excuse making, either!
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MSM Update:
"President Obama made a surprise trip to the country Sunday to press President Hamid Karzai to do more to clean up corruption in Afghanistan."
That the official cover story and conventional myth, MSM?
Can't tell the truth on any f***ing thing, can you?
