sixdollarchampagne
26th July 2008, 16:40
[From www.aporrea.org]
Afghanistan, "the war we must win," says Obama--he asks Bush to send more troops
By: The Independent, AFP, DPA and Reuters 26/07/08
Paris, July 25: "Afghanistan is the war we must win," the virtual
Democratic candidate for the US presidency, Barack Obama, stated
today, in a press conference where he asked the reporters not to
question him as if he were President already, one day after the
historic welcome that some 200,000 people gave him in Berlin,
comparable only to those that Presidents John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987, got.
"We have no alternative. We must finish the job" in Afghanistan
because the Taliban must not be permitted to establish places where they may plan "terrorist attacks that could affect Paris or New York," said Obama, after meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Elysee Palace.
"War is never easy, but there is no alternative. We have to finish
the job" in the Central Asian country, Obama said after thanking
Sarkozy for his willingness to increase the number of French troops
allocated to the NATO military force, that has some 35,000 uniformed men and has suffered over the past year the recovery of the guerrillas of the Taliban, deposed from power in November 2001, two months after the attacks of Al Qaeda in New York and Washington.
"The more NATO allies commit themselves, the less obligated the US
will be to send more troops," he said.
The Democrat also insisted on his demand that Bush immediately send at least two more brigades to Afghan territory as a US reinforcement.
Despite the insistence of reporters that Obama question the war in
Iraq and George W. Bush, he declined to comment on Bush and appealed to what he called a "great tradition" of U.S. politics, under which no criticism should be made of the holder of the White House when a politician travels abroad.
Obama offered [the comment] that if he wins the November 4
election, the US will have a "foreign policy that is not only based
on the ability to project our power, but also on listening and
building consensus."
"We are interested in people's prosperity and peace and not only in
seeing our foreign policy through the lenses of our own security,"
he said.
[Standing] next to Sarkozy, the Democrat said he had broad
agreements with the Frenchman regarding the dispute with Iran and
its nuclear development project, that, according to the West, has no
goals aimed at energy production, but at the production of nuclear
weapons.
Obama asked Iran to accept an offer of commercial and technological incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program for the production of atomic fuel, that in turn serves to activate nuclear reactors and the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction.
At night Obama arrived in London, where he planned to meet with
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his predecessor Tony Blair, and the
head of the Conservative Party, David Cameron.
Afghanistan, "the war we must win," says Obama--he asks Bush to send more troops
By: The Independent, AFP, DPA and Reuters 26/07/08
Paris, July 25: "Afghanistan is the war we must win," the virtual
Democratic candidate for the US presidency, Barack Obama, stated
today, in a press conference where he asked the reporters not to
question him as if he were President already, one day after the
historic welcome that some 200,000 people gave him in Berlin,
comparable only to those that Presidents John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987, got.
"We have no alternative. We must finish the job" in Afghanistan
because the Taliban must not be permitted to establish places where they may plan "terrorist attacks that could affect Paris or New York," said Obama, after meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Elysee Palace.
"War is never easy, but there is no alternative. We have to finish
the job" in the Central Asian country, Obama said after thanking
Sarkozy for his willingness to increase the number of French troops
allocated to the NATO military force, that has some 35,000 uniformed men and has suffered over the past year the recovery of the guerrillas of the Taliban, deposed from power in November 2001, two months after the attacks of Al Qaeda in New York and Washington.
"The more NATO allies commit themselves, the less obligated the US
will be to send more troops," he said.
The Democrat also insisted on his demand that Bush immediately send at least two more brigades to Afghan territory as a US reinforcement.
Despite the insistence of reporters that Obama question the war in
Iraq and George W. Bush, he declined to comment on Bush and appealed to what he called a "great tradition" of U.S. politics, under which no criticism should be made of the holder of the White House when a politician travels abroad.
Obama offered [the comment] that if he wins the November 4
election, the US will have a "foreign policy that is not only based
on the ability to project our power, but also on listening and
building consensus."
"We are interested in people's prosperity and peace and not only in
seeing our foreign policy through the lenses of our own security,"
he said.
[Standing] next to Sarkozy, the Democrat said he had broad
agreements with the Frenchman regarding the dispute with Iran and
its nuclear development project, that, according to the West, has no
goals aimed at energy production, but at the production of nuclear
weapons.
Obama asked Iran to accept an offer of commercial and technological incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program for the production of atomic fuel, that in turn serves to activate nuclear reactors and the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction.
At night Obama arrived in London, where he planned to meet with
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his predecessor Tony Blair, and the
head of the Conservative Party, David Cameron.