Obama plans second Oval Office address: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune

Will mark end of combat mission in Iraq in prime-time speech

Posted August 25, 2010 1:52 PM
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by Mike Memoli and Peter Nicholas

President Obama will mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq August 31 with a prime-time address from the Oval Office, the White House confirmed today.

It would be the president's second address from his West Wing office, just two months after he spoke from there on the BP oil spill.

Deputy press secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday that the president would "talk about the importance of the milepost that that day is as we change missions in Iraq," praise the "bravery and the courageousness" of those who have served in the conflict, and outline our policy there going forward.

"We are reducing our footprint in Iraq under our terms, and through a transition to over 600,000 Iraqi security forces who have proven up to the task," John Brennan, the president's homeland security adviser said. "Our efforts to draw down in Iraq are a critical part of our transition to full Iraqi responsibility, in line with the President's goal of supporting an Iraq that is sovereign, stable and self-reliant."

For more on the significance of an address from the Oval Office, check out this Swamp piece from June.

UPDATE: Before his address to the nation, Obama will travel to Fort Bliss, Texas, to meet with troops there.

(Photo Credit: Pool / Getty Images)

The speech also is part of a pivot to foreign policy by the White House; on September 1, Obama holds separate, bilateral meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

On September 2, those leaders will meet face-to-face.

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I hope Pres Obama reminds Americans just how many innocent Iraqi's and American troops died for the Republicans war of choice in Iraq, and just how much tax payer money ($1 trillion) Republicans wasted on their little "excellent adventure" in the middle-east.


More words from the Bumbler-in-chief?
And more lies....
Time to watch "Bridezilla" reruns, which are more entertaining than an Obama speech, and just as real.


Will he be consistent and "blame" Bush for victory in Iraq? Will he even claim victory? Or will he be Obama and make the US look week and feeble before our enemies.


Posted by: Equal time | August 25, 2010 2:57 PM
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Swamp Troll,
You're wasting your time watching Bridezilla. No one in their right mind would marry a barely coherent butta face like you.



And the world is just as dangerous as ever. I'm still wondering what the exact mission in Iraq was since that country had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and all of the WMD's were destroyed long before the second invasion.
Oh wait a minute...Bechtel Corp., Haliburton, Blackwater, smarmy chickenhawk Cheney.
Any moron who believes Iraq is a reformed stable democracy should take a vacation there.


Posted by: Equal time | August 25, 2010 2:57 PM
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Swamp Troll,
You're right, you shouldn't watch it. Bridezilla is more on your level. Policy debate is something that Repug locksteppers like you leave up to Faux News and Druggy Rush to dictate to you anyway.



Obama Speaks! No we didn't find those WMD's because "THAT WAS A LIE." No we didn't find William Ayers memoirs from when I was 9 years of age. Because THAT WAS A GLENN BECK LIE! No we didn't find the 9 Billion Dollars lost on those American Trailers. No we didn't find Chalibi and find out what he did with the $25,000,000 George Bush/Dick Cheney bucks. No we didn't find the Oil Reconciliation deal or No Reconciliation deal either. It's still a "Work in Progess." No we didn't "Cut and Run." No we can't tell you why 4400 men, women died! No we can't tell you why over 1 million Iraqi innocent civillians died! I can say, "let me be clear." We're out of here! We're done! We will no longer live the GOP 108th Congress Coup De Tau America "lies." We're out of here! We waisted 5.7 Trillion Dollars on a GOP Theft by Deception Axis of Evil Doers Two for One Immigrant Super Tuesday. No we didn't find Osama! No we didn't find out who wrote George Bush's 9/11 speech and actually "HAND IT TO HIM" He Just turned the page! Now I'm turning the page on Iraq! Thank you and have a good night! No Sarah is not the EVE in EEVS!


Posted by: Free To Watch the Liberal's Summer Meltdown | August 25,
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Free To Watch Cartoons,


There's no such thing as "victory" with a war (Iraq) that never should have happened in the first place, clown.



Trickled On Rob,

What costs are included in that Trillion? How is that measured? Is that full-costing or is that only the incremental costs to fight the war?

Did you know BO has spent $171 Billion is far in FY 2010 - 2nd highest year of expenditures?

You want to bet that BO claims victory in Iraq and he tries to take credit?


All the success in Iraq is because of Bush and Petraeus. Obimbette and Boofden were against the surge. They said it would fail. And they were wrong as usual!

Btw, Rube, how can you knock others for allegedly having Rush think for them when just about ALL your posts are cut and pasted from Bizzaro World Loony Lefty blogs???


Sure there is Robbie. It's called VICTORY. Too bad, you and Obama don't like the idea of the US defeating its enemies, but that's because you are both LOSERS.


JOHN D SPEAKS! Credit is due where Credit is taken. Yes the "return on success" was just off TEAM GOP charts. Blame it on the Booty! Blame it on the Nookie! Credit is due where Credit is taken. John D you must of made that 3am call to Bear Sterns! Take the money! Shutup and Take the money! Just take the money! I know you're not broke! Just Devalue! Just Devaluate your holdings TEA for you and TEA for Dick too. Credit is due where Credit is taken. That is real man to step up to the plate and take responsibility. Obviously
the Dick in the Bush didn't care! Bendover! Bendover! Let my 108th Congress over! Hip hip Hooray! It's what the Secretary deems necessary. Biden saved American Sons, Daughters, Friends, Family, Sisters, Brothers, and their Neighbors! But credit taken is credit due! This is an attempt to collect a debt, any information obtained, will be used to collect said debt! Can you please send the taxpayers of America 5.7 Trillion Dollars for the GOP Generational Theft by Deception Axis of post Bush/Cheney Axis of Evil Doers coup de Constitution of the United States a CHECK! You're 20 months DELINQUENT! Blame it on a BOEHNER! Just not the taxpayers!


Maybe Obama can tell us finally the reason why the 2nd stimulus is failing and why the Investment and Recovery act is becoming the largest single theft in human history. Hello Obama, people want to hear when the economy is going to turn the corner. Not more lies like back in the spring when we were told this would be the "summer of recovery". Explain why the stimulus had to be passed NOW (back then) and rammed through but half the money still remains unspent. Talk about that why don't you! Tell us why the healthcare bill has allowed Insurance companies to jack up rates even more right now and will continue to do so until 2014. Change for the worse! The healthcare bill has effectively killed jobs for 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013. The worst handling of taxpayer money and the economy in general in US history.


Conservative Master Speak! We want answers! We want answers! Who called Bear Sterns? Who called JP? Who called CitiMortgage! Who? Who? Oh great Muslim from Hawaii! Who called Dick! Who called George? The American Economy is falling! The American Economy is falling! Stop that speech! America, the Economy is strong, Job creation is on the rise! Who Devalued my property! Who called who, when and why! Who raised my rates? Who bought my company out? Who laid me off! Who won't hire me! Why won't the bank lend? Why can't the banks lend? Why can't the we get a Jobs Bill? Why can't we stop "filibustering." Why can't I RECOVER? I voted GOP, I was all that! Why, Why, Why YOU LIE! YOU LIE! Rep. Joe Wilson, YOU LIE brown skin, brown eyed Harard Professor who we think went through the backdoor of OUR strict-eyed TAX on the middle class doors of America. Why! Why! Why! Did George Bush just LIE? Why did Home Ownership Alliances "Social Mortgage Behavorial" study work? Just call CitiMortgage! Just call Countrywide! Just call Wachovia! Just call People's Choice! Just call Ameriquest! Just call Rick Davis! Just call Rick Renzi! Just not OBAMA? Why! Shhhh take out the Sarah Palin Troy Booty Palin Video and start to get a clue!


There was once a Weatherman in Amerika’s 4th largest city who would explain why wind blows, why rain falls, why it can get so hot during the summer yet so cold during the winter, ~ that sort of whatnot. What Django would do, pre-Fox, was to switch to the alternate Weatherguy or just double-up on sports and avoid weather lectures altogether if there were no softball game to be executed.


What in the world will Mustapha talk about? What is he going to explain to us now that we already don’t know? Will his fans faint when given the secret code word? Did George Bush strike again? Will Lincoln or Churchill be gathered around a TV set somewhere to marvel at his “terrific” choice of four letter words? What’s the 4-1-1? What? Can hardly bear the “weight”.


History and the Evolution of Conservatives and Liberals

(Received as an email and slightly modified)

For those that don’t know anything about history, the following is a condensed version: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups, liberals and conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet so while early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative Movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal Movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1865)


Berlet98,


Django, here, having a Jeremiah Wright moment, must weigh in with some Revisionist History.


Beer has its uses, but the guitar ~ classical, acoustic, and electric, are all quintessential to the human experience. When you look up and see the moon, you will want to write a spiritual tune. A piano does not travel well in the back of a Sebring. Chrysler makes no allowance for that. For this, one has to have a finely-crafted guitar.


Secondly, there is NO way that Pretty Latinas evolved from Liberals / dudes. NO way in Hell on many levels. For one thing there is the hygiene issue. Guys are just hygiene-agnostics. I know not why. Liberals probably have a sanctimonious philosophical position to uphold in that regard based on something that they think Justice Brandeis may have said. Whatever it is, it would of course run totally counter to human logic, as a matter of consistency. Give ‘em that.


In this moment, trying to work out the kinks in “Moonlight Serenade”, “Bird On The Wire”, “Frenesi”, and “All I Ask Of You” on that rather heavy, non-mobile, musical instrument. IF a Liberal were on site, me and my piano would be charged with the destruction of the Rain Forests of Kantoon or whatever. Fool with my guitar, and SOMEBODY is gonna be impaled and probably tattooed as well in a characteristic Goodyear kind of pattern. There are no two or three ways about it. Ok Berlet98, my marginal contribution to this historical signpost rests here within. Regards.


Berlet98, I want you to know that I very, very rarely forward emails...BUT this is going out to everybody!

That is very funny! and true of course.


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