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To: Brumar89 who wrote (614987)	6/6/2011 12:20:10 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575541

Provincial Americans think Austrian is a language and don't know Afghanistan isn't an Arab country. I hope not. That's just outright ignorance and indicative of a lack of education.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (614987)	6/6/2011 12:46:03 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575541

I totally forgot about that Arabic gaffe. Obama is truly ignorant. Obama Gaffes on Iraq and Afghanistan May 13, 2008 8:27 PM ABC News' David Wright and Sunlen Miller Report: Sporting a shiny new American flag pin at an appearance in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Barack Obama came up with some novel reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war in Afghanistan. "We don't have enough capacity right now to deal with it -- and it's not just the troops," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Obama posited -- incorrectly -- that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic. "We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said. The vast majority of military translators in both war zones are drawn from the local population. Naturally they speak the local language. In Iraq, that's Arabic or Kurdish. In Afghanistan, it's any of a half dozen other languages -- including Pashtu, Dari, and Farsi... blogs.abcnews.com