Obama Cancels Visiting U.S. Troops In Germany But Has No Problem Spending Time Giving Speeches To Germans

SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that "Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. 'Barack Obama will not be coming to us,' a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. 'I don’t know why.' Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama." Obama obviously believes Germans take precedence over American soldiers. Not only did he skip visiting American soldiers but he skipped visiting wounded American soldiers. The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is an overseas military hospital operated by the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense. LRMC is the largest military hospital outside of the continental United States. It is located near Landstuhl, Germany, and serves as the nearest treatment center for wounded soldiers coming from Iraq and Afghanistan. For a presidential candidate Barack Obama's priorities are very aschew. It is more than outrageous that Obama felt giving a speech to some of his German fans was more important than the American soldier.



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