02-17-09, 05:37 PM
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The Old Man 
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President Obama to send 12,000 US troops to Afghanistan
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...ops/index.html
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"This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires," Obama said in a written statement.
"The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan, and al Qaeda supports the insurgency and threatens America from its safe-haven along the Pakistani border."
Obama added that the troop increase in Afghanistan would be made possible in part by the impending troop drawdown in Iraq.
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