talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/29/2009
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| 1/7 | next | 1/7 | next President Obama made a surprise visit overnight to Dover Air Force Base to witness the return of the bodies of 18 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan. The unscheduled, unannounced trip took place just before 4 a.m. on October 29. Read the TPMDC report here . Obama went ...
mudvillegazette.com - 10/29/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
As the Obama administration debated resource requirements, October
became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan...
since the beginning of the war. Even before the "record numbers" the president's approval ratings on Afghanistan were in free fall : In previous polls, Obama received ...
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Honoring the fallen
theonion.com - 10/28/2009
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theonion.com —
October 27, 2009 | Issue 45•44 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—
According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts...
continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, ...
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U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/29/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
US President Barack Obama has paid his respects
to 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, the first time...
he has honoured the fallen in this way. The bodies of 15 US soldiers and three Drug Enforcement Agency agents were transferred to a mortuary on the ...
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Obama honours Afghanistan killed
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Facing Reality
Talking Points Memo —
Scenes from the President's middle-of-the-night trip to welcome home war dead at Dover AFB:
CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, whose specialty is tracking such things, reminds us that this is the first such Dover trip by any President since the Afghanistan war started in 2001.
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The Reaction —
... a very moving set of Dover images at TPM Photo Galleries. The pictures of the President's middle of the night experience are particularly poignant. ...
Obama's Future
BAGnewsNotes —
... In my mind, the photo captures Obama's promise as weighted against the commitments and threats (strategic, as well as political) of Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be easy to turn the photo into some kind of sci-fi novelty if it weren't for the solemnity of the moment (and I recommend the whole slide show at TPM for context). ...
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