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Pentagon to Obama: You can’t use wounded troops as campaign props - Obama: If I can’t use them as props than I have no use for them

Click on quote to go to story.  Note: third paragraph from the end says Obama personally made the decision to blow off the visit to Landstuhl Military Hospital.

“We made it clear to him that campaign staff and press would not be permitted to accompany him,” Morrell [Geoff Morrell, Pentagon spokesman] said of Obama.  “We relayed those ground rules. They made a choice based upon the information we relayed to them.  It was their choice. We had nothing to do with it.”

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