corner.nationalreview.com - 1/13/2009
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From the Washington Post:
President-elect Barack Obama intends to sign off on Pentagon plans to send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but the incoming administration does not anticipate that the Iraq-like "surge" of forces will significantly change the direction of a conflict ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/13/2009
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Obama to Send More Troops to Afghanistan So ...
csmonitor.com - 1/11/2009
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Under Obama, the US may send 20,000 more
troops and encourage talks with the Taliban in an...
effort to reclaim the upper hand in Afghanistan. By Anand Gopal | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the January 2, 2009 edition Kabul, ...
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Afghanistan and Pakistan take center stage in 2009
agonist.org - 1/12/2009
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The US will soon double the number of
its troops in Afghanistan from about thirty thousand to...
sixty thousand, and several other NATO countries will also up their troop levels. The move comes with little surprise and considerable bipartisan support, ...
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The Surge in Afghanistan
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CHANGE: Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
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... said the source, “and at the same time they’re eager to make their home states, and the ranks of state employees, more diverse. They see President-elect Obama as the second Great Emancipator and they want to secure their places in history alongside of him.”
The President-elect’s home state governor could not be reached for comment. His spokesman said something about the phone lines being tapped.
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