In my lifetime I do not remember ANY President going to meet the arriving dead as they arrive at Dover. I know Bush didn't, or his dad, and I don't remember Reagan or Nixon doing it, or LBJ...or Clinton ? Anyone else find this amazing ? Moving...stunning...To me it says how much he is wrestling with this decision...I will post more on this tomorrow....
2:30AM Update:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/obama-heads-to-dover-air-_n_337930.html
Huffingtonpost has more on his trip...
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I will believe it when he announces he is not sending 40,000 more troops to war.
But it is a good start.
Maybe that Nobel peace prize has magic powers???
I respect that he has not talked about it, given pep talks or said a word...and is thinking it through...and the Karzai/CIA mess is a HUGE mess...and DEA agents dying there...this is way more intricate tangled crappy mess...
but he went to dover in the middle of the nite...stunning..it was really getting to him...it takes great courage to go meet a plane in the middle of the night with bodies on it- and family there....it is a facing a level of the truth that Bush never did...ever...
I'm glad to know this. Thanks for posting it.
He IS the only president to do so, THAT is showing respect for the service members coming home in flag draped coffins.
Something George Bush was incapable of..
As for Afghanistan, send more troops if it prevents the Taliban from executing more innocent women on a soccer field, what we really need in Afghanistan is a government that wants to GOVERN, not merely a third world kelptocracy
TomInSeattle
Abe Lincoln was a big one on visiting the dead during the Civil War. His summer home was across the street from a Union graveyard.
that is the graveyard where he still walks at night right ?
yeah....a Conscience...I hope and pray that he really thinks about afghanistan...and what and why we are there ...
I am still proud that he went..
meant alot...
to those families..military and DEA
At least he has taken the time to stand in the company of the fallen, and without doubt he has reflected on just what it takes to "defend" a nation.
Will he be able to scale down the overseas military involvement?...
It seems to me that he isn`t so much fighting "foreign extremists", but his own ...."domestic trough-feeders" who enjoy huge profits from the sales of weapons, and military careerists who have no other thoughts in their minds but to keep fighting wars, not to defend America, or to bring peace to Afghanistan, for the sake of their paypackets, and the ambitions of the corporate elites.
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