Obama visits troops at CNN's request, takes heat

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Obama visits troops at CNN's request, takes heat
Dave Boyer
Posted with permission from The Washington Times
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/obama_cnn.php3

FORT LEE, VA. | It was billed as President Obama's farewell to the troops, but the president came under some tough questioning from soldiers Wednesday about his policies on women in the military, problems in veterans' health care and his reluctance to utter the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism."

Mr. Obama held an invitation-only town hall meeting at Fort Lee, Virginia, an Army base where he reviewed his accomplishments in eight years as commander in chief. While the event was hardly hostile, neither was it a rosy walk in the park.

The mother of a fallen soldier asked the president bluntly, "Why do you still refuse to use the term 'radical Islamic terrorist'?" The president has been criticized often, mainly by Republicans, for avoiding the term and failing to acknowledge the root causes of terrorism.

Mr. Obama said he believes "this is an issue that has been sort of manufactured."...
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/obama_cnn.php3