independent.co.uk - 10/24/2009
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Nato defence ministers signalled their backing for the Afghan strategy put forward by the American commander General Stanley McChrystal yesterday in an implicit rejection of the alternative plan proposed by US Vice-President Joe Biden. The general had made an unscheduled appearance at the ...
nytimes.com - 10/23/2009
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nytimes.com —
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia NATO defense ministers gave their
broad endorsement Friday to the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan...
laid out by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments ...
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NATO Defense Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 10/20/2009
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Biden told a Pennsylvania crowd he only said
yes to being vice president months after it was...
first offered. (CNN) - It was an oft-repeated anecdote on the 2008 campaign trail: then-Sen. Joe Biden accepted the request to be the No. ...
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Biden says he first said no to being VP
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 10/24/2009
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Military experts versus a Obama/Biden, who you gonna trust
Commonsense & Wonder —
Nato backs McChrystal in snub to Biden plan By Kim Sengupta Obama is under the influence of Code Pink.
Carol Platt Liebau: NATO vs. the Biden "Plan"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
NATO defense ministers have thrown their support behind General McChrystal's plan for Afghanisant, in an implicit snub of Joe Biden's alternative . So now, does the Administration "go it alone" -- or do they listen to our allies? All this, coupled with Obama's mishandling of the leaders of both ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/26/2009
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... NATO Backs McChrystal in Snub to Biden Plan Nato defence ministers signalled their backing for the Afghan strategy put forward by the American commander General Stanley McChrystal yesterday in an implicit rejection of the alternative plan proposed by US Vice-President Joe Biden. The general had made an unscheduled appearance at the meeting of ministers in Bratislava, Slovakia, to give a presentation behind closed doors. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Nato secretary general, said: “What we did today was to ...
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