Email Story

More Troops for Afghanistan

Lawyers, Guns and Money found this 2/18/2009 on attackerman.firedoglake.com

He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he's done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 troops that Gen. David McKiernan, commander of ...