Obama to yellow bellied liberals - no withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Obama held his 10th and final war council meeting Monday night to assess his Afghanistan strategy in advance of his troop decision. He commented Tuesday during a brief news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was at the White House for a state visit.

"It is in our strategic interests, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaida and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively in those areas," Obama said. "We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks."

"It is my intention to finish the job," he said of the war in Afghanistan that has been going on for eight years—since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

so much for people thinking he was gonna withdraw the troops from there.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I just hope he made the right decision and listened to the best advisers on the matter before making the decision.

[Pooky 3,929]

I just hope he made the right decision and listened to the best advisers on the matter before making the decision.

He did if he listened to the man he appointed to lead the US forces in Afghanistan.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.

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The plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., and a Marine brigade from Camp Lejeune, N.C., for as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.

In addition, a 7,000-strong division headquarters would be sent to take command of U.S.-led NATO forces in southern Afghanistan — to which the U.S. has long been committed — and 4,000 U.S. military trainers would be dispatched to help accelerate an expansion of the Afghan army and police.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79380.html

Edited November 24, 2009 by w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r