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Tuesday
Aug182009

Video: Obama Speech on Afghanistan to Veterans of Foreign Wars (17 August)

Yesterday President Obama spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona. The headline was "Obama Defends War in Afghanistan", as the President explained that the US intervention was a "war of necessity" (as opposed to the Bush Administration's "war of choice" in Iraq), two days before the Afghan Presidential vote. Obama, however, also spoke more widely about other theatres of US operations and about the relationship between military and non-military power.

PART 1 OF 3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GVYKpaSrT8[/youtube]

PART 2 OF 3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aao8m5RYvo&feature=related[/youtube]

PART 3 OF 3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3o3pKPxkEk[/youtube]

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