Word: hagel
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama left Iraq and touched down in Amman, Jordan, today, emerging from an Osprey helicopter, carrying a helmet and body armor, and began the second phase of his international trip. He and his traveling companions, Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, were expected to offer an assessment of their trip to Iraq and Afghanistan at a news conference at the historic Citadel overlooking this city. It will be followed by a one-on-one session between Obama and Jordan's King Abdullah II, who interrupted a U.S. visit to fly back through the night...
...campaign offered its first detailed look at Obama's schedule for the remainder of the weeklong international trip. After dinner Tuesday night with Abdullah, Queen Rania, Hagel, Reed and a number of other Jordanian officials, Obama will fly aboard his campaign charter to Jerusalem, where he is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama will visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial, then meet with President Shimon Peres. From there, he departs for Ramallah in the West Bank, where meetings are scheduled with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime...
...presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama started his second day in Afghanistan in a thoroughly American manner: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. He dined with American troops on a military base in the capital, Kabul, with his congressional traveling companions, Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. As they ate they were joined by soldiers from their respective states - Illinois, Nebraska and Rhode Island - for convivial conversations about what was going on in Afghanistan, life back at home, and the presidential campaign. "The food was good, but the companionship and friendship was even better," says Lt. Col. David Johnson...
...While the details of their trip have been kept secret (indeed, the Obama campaign has refused to even publicly confirm that he is going), Obama's choice of traveling companions is telling. Both Hagel and Reed have been vocal advocates for troop withdrawal, though they split over the initial vote to authorize President Bush to use military force to oust Saddam Hussein, with Reed opposing the invasion and Hagel supporting it. Both carry enormous influence on military issues on Capitol Hill and have strong ties to the Pentagon. Obama's invitation of Hagel is also meant to send a signal...
...Obama aides also say there is good chemistry in this group. Hagel and Obama serve together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have worked in tandem on nonproliferation issues and once even came across each other by happenstance traveling on congressional business in Russia. Reed and Obama have not only consulted on Iraq, but collaborated on legislation involving West Africa - a significant number of Reed's Rhode Island constituents have roots in Liberia - and enhancing middle school education in this country...