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Afghanistan Surge
3 hours ago ago from Fog City Journal
Cartoon by Khalil Bendib . By Ralph E. Stone December 8, 2009 President Obama recently announced that he is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan bringing the total number of U.S. troops to about 100,000. Although he stated that the U.S. would begin drawing down troops in July 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were quick to remind us that this was not a hard and fast exit date. ...
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6 hours ago ago from The Thunder Run
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7 hours ago ago from Politics | AlterNet
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18 hours ago ago from Aalexander11's Blog
I am not a fan of war. I don’t like any part of it and I have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of a “necessary war”. WWII would be one, that much is obvious, but the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is more iffy for me. Terrorism is a horrible thing, there is no denying that, but should we invade nations that we really didn’t need to invade? Did we find any weapons of mass destruction? I think not… President Obama has ...
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8 hours ago ago from If Liz were Queen | Heads would roll and the people would have more to eat than table scraps tossed to them by the rich!
December 08, 2009 By: admin Category: Afghan War , Obama , Obama Administration , War in Iraq , war by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Ever since President Obama's speech last Tuesday, all media, political and public attention has been focused exclusively on the war in Afghanistan. The president mentioned Iraq a few times in the speech, mostly to blame that situation for the situation in Afghanistan. At one point, ...
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Eric Margolis: Obama's Surge
4 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There were no surprises last week in President Barack Obama's historic speech at West Point. His decision to enlarge and prolong the war in Afghanistan had been leaked well in advance. The ugly, messy conflict Obama inherited from George W. Bush now belongs to the "peace president" and his unhappy party. President Obama faced a choice between guns - $1 trillion for the next decade of warfare in Afghanistan - or butter - his $1 trillion ...
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7 hours ago ago from PopEater
WASHINGTON -The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday there are "no silver bullets" for success there but that he expects to know by this time next year whether the troop build up is reversing the Taliban's momentum. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, appearing before the House Armed Services Committee a week after President Barack Obama announced his new surge-and-exit strategy, said he supports the plan. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, ...
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2 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Search All NYTimes.com Search Politics December 7, 2009, 5:01 pm Q. and A. on Obama's Afghan Plan By THE NEW YORK TIMES Correspondents for The Times who contributed to an account of the decision-making behind President Obamaâs strategy for Afghanistan are answering readers' questions Monday and Tuesday. Update | Tuesday 3:01 p.m. Q. During Obama's presidential campaign, Obama ...
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17 hours ago ago from PopEater
KABUL -Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Tuesday in Afghanistan with plans to assure officials and American troops there that the United States is committed to winning the war despite plans to begin pulling forces out in 2011. "We are in this thing to win," Gates told reporters while traveling to Kabul, where he plans to meet privately with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and later with troops bearing the brunt of combat. The secretary's ...
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17 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
KABUL -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in this war-torn country Tuesday morning on an unannounced visit, prepared to offer U.S. troops a message from Washington after President Obama 's decision to boost troop levels significantly: We are in this thing to win. This Story A big piece of it, of my conversations especially with the soldiers, will be just to thank them for their service, for ...
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