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20 hours ago ago from KATAKAMIDOTCOM
(KATAKAMI / CBS) On Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed President Barack Obama in the Map Room of the White House. Below is a transcript of that interview. Video excerpts from that interview are also available on this Web site. STEVE KROFT : So, we're in the Map Room. What is this room? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, the Map Room is actually named because during World War II, FDR actually set up ...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed a renewed effort to defeat the Taliban insurgency during a visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, hailing the next few months as critical. Brown was on an unannounced visit two weeks after ordering 500 extra British troops into the war alongside a surge of 30,000 American forces as part of a sweeping new US strategy to turn around the eight-year war. He held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a ...
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On Dec. 1 2009, President Barack Obama delivered a speech at West Point that addressed the position of the United States of America regarding the war in Afghanistan and outlined the course that needs to be taken. Obama also mentioned how it is that we find ourselves fighting there by invoking the events that unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001. But, the focus was to garner support for the plan that he intends to implement as Commander-in-Chief. ...
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Much-awaited President Obama’s policy statement on Afghanistan and Pakistan was not a surprise. So the criticism that the US did not take Pakistan into confidence before announcing this policy is ridiculous. What he said about Pakistan is the elaboration of his statements made during his election campaign speeches. And what has been said in the Kerry-Lugar bill. The difference was that the policy speech shows that Obama has now a better ...
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