By Mike Carter, July 28 at 12:22

WOW Mike Carter. You hit it all right where it can’t be ignored, (even though the smear mongers are trying their best).

I had commented on this from another thread, EVEN BEFORE I saw the ad or heard the story of Obama allegedly ‘backing out’ of a planned visit to the troops in Germany. It begs the question, WHY did the Pentagon *not* want the press/cameras along on the visit?

It also speaks to a matter of why Senator Obama hasn’t been to Iraq in what the ad claims as ‘years’. Actually, he was there I believe, (and someone can correct me if I’m wrong here, since I’m not going to take the time to confirm it at the moment) in 2006. That would have been his first reasonable opportunity to get there, although I suppose many could argue that he should have made the trip the moment he became a Senator..like maybe to see the destruction for himself, on this horror that he’d spoken out against so vehemently, before it was ever launched.

However, that WOULD have certainly been the very soonest, because it’s been no easy task for ANY of members of Congress to jut ‘decide’ to go over there, just as Congress has never been allowed any ‘unsupervised’ visits to Gitmo, to see what’s actually going on there. So, to hear the innuendo from this ad, (and all of the other hate mongers) you’d think that any one of us, private citizen or local government official, could just call the travel agent and hook up a trip to Iraq.

Same with the whole thing about not supporting the troops. Not only did he insist on the GI bill, (which took tons of arm twisting to get by Dick Bush) but he forced legislation on the care of veterans who were being under-diagnosed (for lack of a better word) in terms of PTSD and other combat related injuries, in order to save money. In other words, thousands of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with multiple illnesses are being completely ignored, as are their conditions, so that the admin won’t have to pay any compensation or pay for medical services. Obama was the originating source to correct that. And, he’s not *on* the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hillary is though, and from what I gather here from your post, so is McCain.

I was totally amazed to hear them actually admit that Obama had voted *against* some of the consistent calls for more and more blank checks to fund the atrocity in Iraq. For over a year now, all of his detractors have consistently claimed that it DIDN’T MATTER that he had so vigorously denounced the war on Iraq *before* it was launched, because 1) he was in the Congress at the time, and 2) because he had ALWAYS voted in *favor* of continued funding, (even though we know that isn’t true). He did vote (one or twice) in favor of these multiple ‘emergency funding’ bills, though I don’t know off the top of my head which ones, or what the language of those bills were.

As for Afghanistan, pretty much ALL of us know that the Dick Bush Admin (and most of the rest of Congress) OUTSOURCED that entire operation within 6 weeks of the troops’ arrival there, and has since paid Pakistan a minimum of $22 billion tax payer dollars to ‘handle’ it instead. A comparison of Afghanistan then, and Afghanistan now, would provide some pretty clear testimony to the fact that Pakistan hasn’t done a very good job, and that we might be due some change on our $22 billion.

So many short memories out there, eh? Is it this rise in ‘Attention Deficit Disorder” or what?

If the McCain camp had paid any actual attention as to why this visit did not take place, they would have kept their mouths shut in the first place. It was all over the news as to why this visit was canceled. It was the Pentagons doing. Only notifying the Obama campaign the day before the visit was to take place, which the Pentagon put stop to the visit for so-called security reasons. John McShame got it wrong AGAIN!