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Politics : Attack Iraq?

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To: calgal who wrote (8373)11/27/2003 5:26:00 PM
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List of Presidential Trips to War Zones
2 hours, 40 minutes ago

By The Associated Press

Past presidential trips to war zones include:



_ 1952: Dwight David Eisenhower, then president-elect, visited Korean battle fronts in December.

_ 1966 and 1967: President Lyndon Johnson made two wartime trips to Vietnam, visiting troops at the U.S. military command at Cam Ranh Bay.

_ 1969: President Richard Nixon visited troops at Dian about 12 miles south of what was then known as Saigon.

_ 1990: President George H.W. Bush visited U.S. troops at a desert outpost in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, in the run-up to the Gulf War (news - web sites).

_ 1999: President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO (news - web sites) military personnel in Macedonia, two weeks after end of NATO airstrikes to drive Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) out of Kosovo. Five months later he addressed Albanians and shared a Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Kosovo.

_ 2003: President Bush (news - web sites) pays a Thanksgiving Day visit to U.S. soldiers in a mess hall at Baghdad International Airport.

story.news.yahoo.com
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