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Obama to announce extra 34,000 troops for Afghanistan before end of November
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After a seventh meeting with senior advisers on the thorny issue of reinforcements, officials said he favoured the middle of three options presented by Gen Stanley McChrystal, the Nato and US commander in Afghanistan.
At the meetings - totalling 20 hours - Gen McChrystal had presented scenarios involving 40,000 more troops, 30,000 more and 20,000.
The White House would overrule the arguments of Joe Biden, the vice president, for sending just 10,000 more troops and switching the mission to largely a holding operation and a hunt for al-Qaeda. Gone too is the possibility of Gen McChrystal's dream number of 80,000 troops which was thrown into the debate at some stage.
McClatchy newspapers said the administrationn would dispatch 23,000 additional combat and support troops from the 101st Airborne Division, 10th Mountain Division and the marines.
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After all, he didn't win that Nobel "Peace" prize for nothing. Obama is working hard to bring Iraq and Afghanistan under the Pax Americana. He doesn't care how many people he has to kill in order to do it. 
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"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle." ~ Alexis De Tocquiville
Last edited by Laisrean; November 22nd, 2009 at 03:11 PM.
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November 22nd, 2009, 03:09 PM
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