Yesterday, George W. Bush made a suprise visit to Baghdad. What other US presidents have made trips to war zones?

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Abe Lincoln must have I was thinking that most of the US was a war zone during the Civil War. Is Baghdad technically still a war zone as it is more of a policing action now? Nov 28 03, 11:42 AM

TheBoyPipe

Richard Nixon went to Vietnam. Nov 28 03, 12:12 PM

lothruin

Iraq is hostile territory, but I'm pretty sure the war has been declared over... President Clinton visited the Balkans after the Kosovo war was declared over, but the territories were still very much hostile. In fact, hostilities in those areas have yet to cease entirely. Nov 28 03, 2:17 PM

griffinj

SM is right; Iraq is not technically a war zone, as officially the enemy has been defeated. As war was never officially declared, Vietnam was never technically a war zone, so Nixon didn't either. Eisenhower went to Korea shortly after his election in 1952, the same statements as for Nixon apply. Nov 28 03, 2:28 PM

Hamlet.

Two that haven't been mentioned: 1990 - George H. W. Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia in the runup to the Gulf War. !966 and 1967 - President Lyndon Johnson made two wartime trips to Vietnam, visiting troops at the US military command at Cam Ranh Bay. Nov 28 03, 7:11 PM

McGruff

Backing SM with Abraham Lincoln In early October, Lincoln visited McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam to urge him personally to attack. This photograph of Lincoln with McClellan and his staff was one of several taken on October 3 and is a rare view of Lincoln at the front. http://www.civilwar.si.edu/lincoln_mcclellanlincoln.html SUMMARY: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sacket, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Morell. 5. Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps. 6. Gen. George B. McClellan. 7. Scout Adams. 8. Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director. 9. Unknown. 10. President Lincoln. 11. Gen. Henry J. Hunt. 12. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. 13. Unknown. 14. Col. Frederick T. Locke, A.A.G. 15. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. 16. Col. George A. Batchelder, Ordnance Officer, 1st Div., 5th Corps. http://locimages.com/prliwigemcan.html Nov 29 03, 8:08 AM

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