obama speech afghanistan - first

President Barack Obama announced his plan to send more troops into Afghanistan at West Point on December 1, 2009.

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Let me begin by saying thanks to all you who've traveled, from far and wide, to brave the cold today.

We all made this journey for a reason. It's humbling, but in my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.

That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I am not a native of this great state. I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college; I knew no one in Chicago, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13,000 a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea - that I might play a small part in building a better America.

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[NCMan28025]

The teleprompter is more exciting that Obama.

[ErikNikolai]

It seems like sacrilege for someone like Barack to step foot into the West Point Academy. I would half expect him to catch on fire, like a vampire would when entering a church.

[hookalakah]

"Our president likes to be on both sides at once.

...In Afghanistan, he wants to go but he wants to stay. He’s surging and withdrawing simultaneously. He’s leaving fewer troops than are needed for a counterinsurgency strategy and more troops than are needed for a counterterrorism strategy — and he seems to want both strategies at the same time. Our work is done but we have to still be there. Our work isn’t done but we can go." --Maureen Dowd, New York Times, June 26, 2011

[inexplicata]

Jeez - what a bunch of brainwashed morons! The US and UK ARE the terrorists...we are responsible for the death of well over 1 million men women and children during the Iraq invasion and the current one in Afghanistan, in which the toll is rising daily...and for what? these are blood sacrifices for the Illuminati's dumb-ass Lucifarian faith...get real!

[dilbert601]

obama planned 9/11 so dont listen to him he's a communist

[trojantjl]

obama is a girly man

[trojantjl]

obama is a girly man

[Engineersone]

HAHAHAHA

THE SEEM 911 OLD STUPID STORY

ITS SO OLD , BRING US SOME NEW LIES MR OBAMA PLEASE

I MEAN HOW STILL BLIEVE THAT 911 WAS DONE BY BIN LADEN ?

I ADVISE MR OBAMA TO CHANGE HIS SPEECH TO A MORE CONVINCING SPEECH

I HOPE YOU TAKE MY ADVISE SERIOUSLY MR OBAMA

BYE

[trojantjl]

obama is one and done

[nightbluangel]

We need to not fight over such things. Every one is calling everyone else bad names because we all think we are right. I personally believe that this is a hopeless effort just like Vietnam because the people we are dealing with are strong minded and just want to be left alone. Who are we America to go into someone else's country and tell them what is right and wrong. They have different beliefs than us, and just by being over there we are uniting them together. We just cant do some things...

[Afg4Lyife]

Dezwartemaan.......is son of a Bitch, he tries to be an History writer about afghanistan......WTF.....he is a piece of Shit....lmao