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• Obama to let Pentagon deploy even more troops, but numbers remain murky

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 960
  President Obama has authorized Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to deploy several thousand additional troops, as needed, beyond the 30,000 that Obama on Tuesday said he would send to Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon official.
  3 hours ago

• Afghan surge to protect pipeline construction says former UK Ambassador

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  Karzai comes directly from the Bush camp and was put in place because of his role with Unocal in developing the Trans Afghanistan Gas Pipeline project. That remains a chief strategic goal. The Asian Development Bank has agreed finance to start construction in Spring 2011. It is of course a total coincidence that ...
  4 hours ago

• Following President Obama, NATO Allies Ready To Send More Troops

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  The world was waiting U.S President Barack Obama to outline his strategy for Afghanistan and now that he has given the go ahead for troop reinforcements to Afghanistan amounting to 30,000 U.S personnel, NATO and its member states have also come around and announced that, they will in all commit 5,000 NATO troops to ...
  4 hours ago

• Obama to Send 30,000 U.S. Afghan Hounds to Train AFGHAN Afghan Hounds

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “ MAKE NO MISTAKE. OUR GOAL IS TO TRAIN AND MOTIVATE THE AFGHAN AFGHAN HOUNDS SO THAT THEY SNIFF OUT THE OPIUM POPPIES, I NSTEAD OF SMOKING THEM . AND WITH ANY LUCK, WE’LL BE ABLE TO WITHDRAW OUR OWN AFGHAN HOUNDS WITHIN 49 DOG YEARS.”
  4 hours ago

• Bring Home the Troops From Afghanistan

  
  The HarazQuack Times — Authority: 127
  Sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan is not a good strategy. Some argue that we need to "clean up Bushs mess." I wont even mention how paternalistic that is (See what I did there? Thats a trick I picked up from Fox News). It assumes that adding more troops will somehow stabilize Afghanistan. It assumes that Bush ...
  5 hours ago

• Photos: Obama, Secretary of State, Afghanistan, West Point Cadets

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 145
  WASHINGTON – DECEMBER 02: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L)and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) arrive at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, December 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on President Barack Obama’s plan to send more troops to Afghanistan. ...
  6 hours ago

• Barack Obama criticised by Left and Right over Afghanistan surge

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  President Barack Obama on Wednesday drew fire from both Left and Right for his Afghan speech, regarded as the greatest test so far of his credibility as commander-in-chief.
  7 hours ago

• Remember when Obama said the troops made a "great photo op?

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 595
  He wasnt kidding. The Commander in Chief playing politics with our troops. -----> From The Cable . (h/t FReeper Yo-Yo) When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaskas Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger . But according to multiple ...
  7 hours ago

• Rise and Fall, according to Murtha

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 674
  Great powers rise and fall. And a powerful member of the House of Representatives, mindful of this, fears the United States could be swamping itself in Afghanistan’s rugged terrain, a graveyard of foreign forces. “What I’m worried about is the cost of the war,” said Rep. John Murtha, who controls the ...
  8 hours ago

• President Obama On The Way Forward In Afghanistan And Pakistan

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 143
  President Obama outlines his strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan from the US Military Academy at West Point, NY December 1, 2009 (Public Domain)….Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
  8 hours ago

• Obama’s Oath To ‘Finish The Job’

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 143
  President Obama has finally settled on a plan for the war in Afghanistan after nearly two and a half months of debate. The details will be given in a prime time address on Tuesday. Chip Reid reports…. Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
  8 hours ago

• More War, Endless War, Borrowed Money for War, Obama’s War

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 131
  Westpoint Cadets 47+ million Americans have food insecurity.  Another 47 million Americans have no health care. Our President thinks we have hundreds of billions of dollars, borrowed from China, to throw away on Afghanistan.  Sounds like George Bush, doesn’t it? In a speech last night that could have been given ...
  10 hours ago

• Withdrawl Timeline Saga ..

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 827
  My two cents on Afghanistan withdrawal timeline ...
  10 hours ago

• McChrystal Pitches U.S. Strategy In Afghanistan

  
  Blogger — Authority: 169
  Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, spent Wednesday pitching President Obama’s revised Afghanistan strategy to his troops and Afghan officials. McChrystal acknowledged it’s going to take more than words to persuade Afghans that Obama’s new strategy can bring peace.
  11 hours ago

• Afghans unimpressed by Obamas troops surge

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  U.S. President Barack Obamas announcement of a massive new escalation of the eight-year-old war seemed to have impressed nobody in the Afghan capital, where few watched the speech on TV before dawn and fewer seemed to think new troops would help.   »  noticia original
  11 hours ago

• Barack Obama facing backlash over Afghanistan troop surge

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Barack Obama criticised amid fears that setting out a timetable for withdrawal could aid the Taliban and unnerve allies.
  11 hours ago

• Vietnam-lite is unveiled - Pepe Escobar

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  "The much-hyped Obama speech on Tuesday night at West Point - edited by the president himself up to the last minute - was a clever rehash of the white mans burden, sketching a progressive narrative for US national security clad in the glorious robes of "the noble struggle for freedom". On a more pedestrian level, ...
  12 hours ago

• OBAMA! “OUR SECURITY IS AT STAKE!”

  
  Datzhott — Authority: 442
  for react ion! … there’s a r eason! HOTT LOOK @ POLITI CS! Co mpleti ng a job Bush couldn ‘ t finish! President BARACK OBAMA will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports on the president’s strategy for escalating the war, and eventually ...
  12 hours ago

• OBAMA! “OUR SECURITY IS AT STAKE!”

  
  AnythingBlack.Net — Authority: 149
  for react ion! … there’s a r eason! HOTT LOOK @ POLITI CS! Co mpleti ng a job Bush couldn ‘ t finish! President BARACK OBAMA will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports on the president’s strategy for escalating the war, and eventually ...
  12 hours ago

• Top 10 Observations About President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech:1) It took three months for President Obama to come up with this;2) President Obama believes ...
  12 hours ago

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