Yanjin Admin
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| Subject: Obama 'to lay out Afghanistan exit plan' Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:41 pm | |
| - BBC News wrote:
- President Barack Obama is to tell the American people that US troops will start to leave Afghanistan within three years, a senior official has said.
He will outline the rough withdrawal plan in a speech to the nation, when he will also announce a rapid six-month deployment of 30,000 extra soldiers. Mr Obama has also asked Nato allies to send up to 10,000 more combat troops. But France has refused, while Germany postponed any decision. The UK has agreed to send 500 more soldiers. In Tuesday evening's much-anticipated speech at West Point military academy, Mr Obama is expected to make an accelerated troop surge the centrepiece of his new strategy for Afghanistan. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8388939.stmWell thank FUCK for that! Though, knowing the US government it'll be after the nuke it However sending more troops in will make matters worse, especially as the Yank soldiers can't seem to tell the different between British forces and the Taliban.... | |
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SunsetRainbow
Posts : 964 Reputation : 1 Join date : 2009-11-08 Age : 32 Location : London (:
| Subject: Re: Obama 'to lay out Afghanistan exit plan' Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:54 pm | |
| Like Obama's actually going to follow his plan xD | |
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Yanjin Admin
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| Subject: Re: Obama 'to lay out Afghanistan exit plan' Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:00 pm | |
| The plan is basically "Add more soldiers so it's over quicker" | |
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SunsetRainbow
Posts : 964 Reputation : 1 Join date : 2009-11-08 Age : 32 Location : London (:
| Subject: Re: Obama 'to lay out Afghanistan exit plan' Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:00 pm | |
| haha yup. You pretty much summed it up xD | |
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