abcnews.go.com - 10/27/2009
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Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., discusses Afghanistan strategy and health care reform.
washingtonindependent.com - 10/27/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
Fresh from a trip last week to Afghanistan,
where he scored a diplomatic coup by securing Afghan...
President Hamid Karzai’s acquiescence to a runoff election , Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) urged President Obama to endorse a counterinsurgency campaign ...
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Kerry Backs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan ...
theonion.com - 30 days ago
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theonion.com —
October 27, 2009 | Issue 45•44 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—
According to sources at the Pentagon, American quagmire-building efforts...
continued apace in Afghanistan this week, as the geographically rugged, politically unstable region remained ungovernable, ...
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U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/26/2009
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While the president didn't mention criticism by former
Vice President Dick Cheney that the White House was...
"dithering" on strategy, he made it clear he wouldn't be pressured into a decision.
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Obama Defends Afghanistan Timetable
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Sen. Jack Reed: ‘Emerging Consensus' to Deploy More Training Troops in Afghanistan
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... the provision Reid is backing in the Senate bill isn't the "robust" public option many liberals are calling for, Reed said he thinks the plan -- which would give states the opportunity to "opt out" of a public option -- would do enough.
"I think it does enough," Reed said. "I think with a public option, you will have an opportunity for people to go and to find health care and to do it in a way in which they will not be sort of unfairly dealt with."
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taylormarsh.com 10/27/2009 —
His name is Matthew Hoh and this could turn into a story that will haunt Pres. Obama’s decision on Afghanistan every day until the strategy is announced. I’m sure it is already. Hoh simply doesn’t believe in where the U.S. mission has been and where Obama is about to ...
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outsidethebeltway.com 10/13/2009 — The debate of Afghanistan continues in the nation’s opinion pages.
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Afghanistan: Plenty of Advice, from “How to Win” to “How to Lose”
themoderatevoice.com 10/3/2009 —
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8 more U.S. deaths in Afghanistan —
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From NBC's Jim MiklaszewskiU.S. military officials tell NBC News that eight Americans and one Afghan civilian translator were killed in two separate "complex" IED attacks on U.S. military patrols in southern Afghanistan.
Seven Americans and the ...
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