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Date for US drawdown needed to press Afghans: Gates
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Setting a date for the start of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan conveys "a sense of urgency" to Kabul that American forces would not stay indefinitely, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
Nations:Afghanistan People:Dick Cheney Robert Gates Hamid Karzai Barack Obama Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AFP)
2009-12-06
Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by summer
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assures the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas.
Nations:Afghanistan Pakistan U.S. People:Dick Cheney Hamid Karzai Russ Feingold Carl Levin Barack Obama John McCain Activities:Afghan Terror War
2009-12-01
Obama to detail big troop increase in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas.
Nations:Pakistan India Denmark Poland Russia Afghanistan People:Dick Cheney Kevin Rudd Nicolas Sarkozy Gordon Brown Hamid Karzai Barack Obama Activities:Obama Admin. Afghan Terror War
2009-11-30
Cheney FBI interview: 72 times of can't recall
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
People:Dick Cheney George W. Bush Activities:2003 CIA Leak Case Bush Admin. Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
GOP victory Tuesday won't erase party's problems
WASHINGTON - For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won't erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year when control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast will be up for grabs.
Nations:U.S. Afghanistan People:Dick Cheney Sarah Palin John Boehner Rush Limbaugh Barack Obama John McCain Activities:111th Congress
2009-11-02
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