politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 12 days ago
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Washington (CNN) - White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones issued a rare public statement Monday vehemently denying media reports suggesting President Obama has privately decided to send close to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, as tensions between the White House and Pentagon appear to be flaring up over exactly what the president will announce.
"Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false," Jones, who generally ...
msnbc.msn.com - 10 days ago
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msnbc.msn.com —
A senior administration official says President Barack Obama
doesn't plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war
options presented by his national security team. Barack Obama - United States - Opinion poll - Politics - Society and ...
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Official: Obama rejects war options
mcclatchydc.com - 14 days ago
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By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy
A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON President Barack Obama
is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after ...
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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11 days ago
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President Obama made an unannounced visit to the
Dover Air Force Base late last month to honor
18 Americans killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. Washington (CNN) - Americans are split over whether President Barack Obama is ...
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CNN Poll: Is Obama taking too long on Afghanistan decision?
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At WTC; Pentagon trying to force Obama
MyDD —
... And the news... I have to admit a bit of hope with Obama making the right choice over Afghanistan when I read about his administration staff telling CNN: "People at the Pentagon are trying to force a certain outcome." ...
On Afghanistan, "People at the Pentagon are trying to force a certain outcome"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The situation in Afghanistan is bad enough without "people at the Pentagon" playing games with Obama. A report today that Obama had decided to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan has been denied strongly by the White House: ...
The Decider Decides To Send 40K Troops. No, Wait, He Doesn’t
Pirate's Cove —
... on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
And not long after CBS News made that pronouncement, CNN and Bloomberg, among others, called BS on it, forcing CBS to ...
The Decider Decides To Send 40K Troops. No, Wait, He Doesn’t
Stop The ACLU —
... with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term. The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for. And not long after CBS News made that pronouncement, CNN and ...
Whither U.S. Afghan policy? How many more troops?
The Reaction —
... The White House is denying that any decision has been made, which suggests that a decision has in fact been made. Unless there really is tension between the White House and the Pentagon, and unless Jim Jones is right, or, rather, telling the truth: ...
Obama not done with Afghanistan decision
The Moderate Voice —
... Apparently rumors of the death of President Obama’s decision making process on the route forward in Afghanistan were somewhat exaggerated. This from White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones: ...
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