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May 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Neither Americans nor the Afghan people asked for this war yet for a decade
we’ve stood together,” Mr Obama said at the midnight signing ceremony.
“Today we’re agreeing to be long term partners.”
The Strategic Partnership Agreement transfers control of detention facilities
to Afghan forces and gives them the lead on the controversial night raids
carried out by American soldiers. It also commits the US to providing
funding and training for Afghan forces after 2014.
In a later speech to American troops, Mr Obama said there would still be
“heartbreak, pain, and difficulty” but that there was also “a light on the
horizon” as the US prepared to begin withdrawing its 90,000 troops.
The trip is also heavy with political symbolism and comes in the same week Mr
Obama is due to kick off his re-election bid with a pair of rallies in Ohio
and Virginia.
Mr Obama was last night also scheduled to speak live from Bagram Air Base,
north of Kabul, in what was billed by the White House as a major war-time
address to the American people.
In the 10-minute address, the President was expected to take credit for ending
the war in Iraq and drawing down the conflict in Afghanistan, as well as
giving the order to send Navy SEALs into Pakistan to kill bin Laden.
Mr Obama has been repeatedly criticised for trying to use the anniversary of
bin Laden’s death to his own political advantage and for questioning whether
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, would have given the same
order.
Mr Romney fired back that “even Jimmy Carter” – the former Democratic
president whose name is now a byword for weak US leadership – would have
moved against the compound in Pakistan.
Mr Romney yesterday visited New York City where he appeared alongside former
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and delivered pizzas to firefighters. Asked about the
row, Mr Romney said: “Of course I would have made the call to take out Osama
bin Laden”.
Mr Giuliani said of Mr Obama’s recent comments: “I wish he wouldn’t use it as
a source of negative campaigning. I think that is a big mistake”.
White House officials last night said the anniversary was a “resonant day” for
both the US and Afghanistan but insisted that timing of the trip was not
politically-motivated.
Mr Obama boarded Air Force One in secret late on Monday night and flew to
Bagram, where he boarded a helicopter bound for Kabul.
He was flanked by a large force of US troops and Secret Service agents and the
American media agreed not to report his movements until he had reached the
relative safety of Kabul’s presidential palace.
The trip comes as Americans’ faith in the military effort plumbed all-time
lows, with only 38 per cent saying they believe that the US’s campaign is
going well.
More than 1,900 US troops have been killed and nearly $1.3 trillion (£800
billion) has been spent in Afghanistan since the war began in the wake of
the September 11 attacks.
In recent months, the relationship between the US and its Afghan allies has
become even more strained. A US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 17 Afghan
civilians in Kandahar in March while the Taliban have recently stepped up
the ferocity and tempo of its coordinated attacks on Kabul.
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