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Mercnbeth -> RE: Where are the news story's of US forces stretched thin??? (3/4/2009 12:28:20 PM)
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Just the facts...
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The president last week decided the U.S. will send 17,000 additional U.S. combat and support troops to Afghanistan. In a statement he said the deployment was “necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires.”
The U.S. has about 38,000 personnel in Afghanistan, and about 32,000 troops from other NATO members also are in the country. Source: AFGHANISTAN ESCALATION
I seem to remember that a major bone of contention and source of mockery to the prior Administration the inability to listen to the Generals deployed. Another policy of 'UN-CHANGE!'
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United States President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by General David McKiernan, the top commander of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops in Afghanistan, and General David Petraeus, the Central Command chief, after McKiernan was unable to tell him how they would be used, according to White House sources.
But Obama is likely to be pressured by McKiernan and the Joint Chiefs to approve the remaining 13,000 troops requested after the completion of an Afghanistan-Pakistan policy review next month. Source: NOT ENOUGH TO DO THE JOB
Maybe President Obama is following the 'Rambo III' model taking the Soviet side: quote:
The Soviets never had more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan at one time. Depending on the outcome of the administration's policy review, the United States may have as many as 68,000 there, along with 32,000 troops provided by NATO allies, putting the total near Soviet levels.
RAMBO III
Meanwhile, a scheduled, but no moving vans in sight, withdraw from Iraq. Except for 50,000...
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The administration now considers Aug. 31, 2010, the end date for Iraq war operations. That timetable is slower than Obama had promised voters, but still hastens the U.S. exit. Even with the drawdown, a sizable U.S. force of 35,000 to 50,000 U.S. troops will stay in Iraq under a new mission of training, civilian protection and counterterrorism.
Source: WE'LL BE THERE A WHILE
Cindy Sheehan must have cashed in all the chips she earned exploiting the death of her son in Iraq being a 'front man' for the special interests helping to put this Administration in power and is now living in comfortable retirement.
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