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Two perspectives on the President’s Iraq trip

The AP described the President’s recent trip to Iraq, and the photo op that ensued:

Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday…he was interrupted repeatedly with cheers from the troops. “I love you,” someone in the crowd shouted out. I love you back,” the commander in chief replied. Scores of troops held digital cameras above their heads, snapping pictures and recording video of a day they would long remember.

A sergeant who says he was there saw things a little differently:

“We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up.” Take a look at the picture at AP and notice all the cameras are the same models? Coincidence? I think not.

Maybe it’s just us, but that Jennifer Loven AP piece seems to have a creepy totalitarian feel to it — the uniformity and wild overreaction of the people to the dear leader. Ugh.

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One Response to “Two perspectives on the President’s Iraq trip”

  1. gs Says:
    April 12th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    Rigging VIP visits? That sounds like the Army I remember from the Vietnam era. Psst, Barack: they really brainwash you over there, don’t they? ;-)

    The Bush administration extended enlistments beyond their scheduled expiration date. The usually profligate Bush managed to summon fiscal rectitude when it came to the size of military pay raises and to veterans’ benefits. Accordingly, when I see images of Bush having chow with happy troopers, I take them with a lot of salt.

    Dinocrat:

    Maybe it’s just us, but that Jennifer Loven AP piece seems to have a creepy totalitarian feel to it — the uniformity and wild overreaction of the people to the dear leader. Ugh.

    Agreed, but Orrin Hatch’s Flag Desecration Amendment, which barely failed in the Republican Senate more than once, also had a creepy totalitarian feel afaic.

    I’m not defending the current administration. On the contrary, I recanted my vote for it. At this time Obama is shaping up to be worse than Bush, but both of them are symptomatic of an underlying national decline. (IMO the decline, like our decline in the 1970s, is not fated even though I don’t see what will reverse it.)

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