Biden: Afghan withdrawal may start with ‘a couple of thousand troops’

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(CNN) — As few as “a couple of thousand” U.S. troops may leave Afghanistan in the first phase of withdrawing forces from there beginning a year from now, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

“It could be as few as a couple of thousand troops; it could be more,” Biden told ABC’s “This Week.”

Asked about a book that quotes him as saying the troop withdrawal would start with “a whole lot of people” leaving Afghanistan, Biden confirmed the comment but said he was responding to an assertion that there might be no withdrawal at all at that time.

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