Obama proposes troop increase in Afghanistan

[Vermouth]

Senator Barack Obama is proposing that the United States deploy about 10,000 more troops to battle resurgent forces in Afghanistan, a plan intended to shift the American military focus from the Iraq war to the marked rise in violence from the Taliban.

“As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan,” Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, wrote in an Op-Ed article published on Monday in The New York Times. “We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.”

Mr. Obama, who is among those who maintain that Afghanistan has been neglected because of the administration’s Iraq policy, has not previously offered such a specific plan for how to strengthen troop levels in Afghanistan. His proposal comes as he prepares to visit American commanders to assess progress in Iraq and needs in Afghanistan...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/us/politics/14campaign.html

[gorknoids]

Democrats always use the number 10,000.  Look for yourself.  If it's cops or teachers or jobs, democrats ALWAYS use the number10,000 when they are lying.

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=clinton+10%2C000+new&btnG=Google+Search

[gunit_sangh]

Have you noticed that once Obama started talking about Afghanisan, mcsame was been forced to take the same position as Obama?
 

[they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!]

if anything bo has been taking the same position as bush and little mac.  but give him a day i am sure he will refine his position again

[Vermouth]

Obama and McCain both want to send more troops to Afghanistan. The difference is that Obama wants to move troops from Iraq and McCain wants to get them from ... where?

[they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!]

Obama and McCain both want to send more troops to Afghanistan. The difference is that Obama wants to move troops from Iraq and McCain wants to get them from ... where?

day to day bo doesn't seem to know quite what he wants, hell sometimes his flip-flops take place within the same day.

[gunit_sangh]

Obama and McCain both want to send more troops to Afghanistan. The difference is that Obama wants to move troops from Iraq and McCain wants to get them from ... where?

It will be the troops hunting the Sunni terrorists trained by Shia Iranians