Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40K More Troops - CBS News »
Posted By TimALoftis 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Political News
CBS Exclusive: Sources Say Force Will Grow to 100,000 with Long-Term Stay Planned; White House Denies Report.
After months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
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TimALoftis3 weeks, 3 days ago
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Following the CBS News report, the Obama administration released this comment;
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"Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false. He has not received final options for his consideration, he has not reviewed those options with his national security team, and he has not made any decisions about resources. Any reports to the contrary are completely untrue and come from uninformed sources." -
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orndorffter3 weeks, 3 days ago
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I watched as a fallen soilder and all the service men and wemon and police and stae police ,motercycles with flags as the car had flags, all of us standing there with our hand to our head held it there tell he was taken to his veiwing place.
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His mother told Obama he sent letters home saying, they do not have enough man power. Yes something has got to be done. -
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gamahuche3 weeks, 2 days ago
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they [the advisers] also have warned that troops alone will not win the war unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai cleans up his government.
"He's got to take concrete steps to eliminate corruption," Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last week. "That means you have to rid yourself of those who are corrupt. You have to actually arrest and prosecute them."
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So who is the first person that Karzai will need to get rid of? Wouldn't that be himself?
When this all ends for the US in a bigger catastrophe than Iraq someone may suggest that it would have been a good idea to check why the Russians gave up after 5 years and thousands of body-bags - if they use anything so tasteful, maybe plastic bin-liners, of CONSCRIPTED bodies. -
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