Obama mixes up Iraq, Afghanistan on YouTube

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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama experienced a rare speaking stumble Thursday, mixing up Iraq and Afghanistan when responding in a YouTube interview to questions challenging the wars in those countries.

The president twice referred to Afghanistan when clearly talking about the situation in Iraq.

He said that the United States would withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011 and that combat operations there had ended, which actually describes the situation and policy for Iraq.

It was unclear whether Obama realized his mistake. He then correctly stated the situation in Afghanistan, saying the United States would start withdrawing some forces beginning in July, with the goal of handing over full security responsibilities to the Afghan government in 2014.

The 40-minute interview was part of a White House communications offensive in support of this week's State of the Union speech, with a series of events in which top administration officials spoke directly to Americans about administration policies set out in the address Tuesday night.

Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/27/obama.youth.outreach/index.html

[impik]

1. Breaking: The president is human!

[vaberella]

2. This matters why? Mistakes happen. Unrec for the sheer nonsense of it.

And coming from CNN, makes it that much more unimportant.

[dionysus]

3. oh noes. we're doooomed.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. He should just resign right now.

:-(