US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) thanks police officers before boarding his campaign plane in Berlin, July 25, 2008.
From Reuters:
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday defended his decision to cancel a visit with U.S. troops at a military hospital in Germany because of concerns it would be viewed as a political event.
Obama had intended to stop at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on Friday morning, the day after delivering a speech on transatlantic relations in Berlin as part of his trip to the Middle East and Europe.
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