Category Archives: Afghanistan

Matalin: With Afghan surge, Obama resembler George W. Bush

By doris | Published: December 8, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) – A leading Republican strategist and one-time aide to former Vice President Cheney said Sunday that President Obama’s recently announced decision to send an additional 30, 000 troops to Afghanistan is “a reassertion of the Bush doctrine.” “The [Bush] doctrine is no safe havens [for terrorists intent on harming [...]

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White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan

By doris | Published: December 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA’s program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with missiles shot from pilotless planes, a U.S. official confirms. The covert effort is part of the Obama administration’s plan to increase the [...]

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Clinton: We don’t intend to cut and run from Afghanistan

By doris | Published: December 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Brussels, Belgium (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected suggestions Friday that the Obama administration plans to abruptly cut and run from Afghanistan. She emphasized that the transition to total Afghan power will be gradual and responsible. “I want to make clear to the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan that [...]

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Senators question U.S. focus on Afghanistan

By doris | Published: December 4, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Top Democrats and Republicans questioned Thursday whether President Obama is too narrowly focused on problems in Afghanistan at the expense of other national security priorities. They also amped up a bipartisan chorus of concern over the ability of the administration to adhere to its goal of starting a [...]

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Lawmakers divided over paying for Afghan war

By doris | Published: December 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Amid soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama is running into congressional qualms over how to pay for his troop buildup in Afghanistan. Military strategy aside, the $30 billion cost is causing concern on both sides of the aisle. Still, leaders in Congress predicted Wednesday that Obama would prevail in [...]

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Report: ‘Bin Laden was within our grasp’

By doris | Published: December 1, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Obama got some political cover Sunday for his upcoming announcement on sending more troops to Afghanistan. A report released by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blamed the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader [...]

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Pentagon preparing to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, official says

By doris | Published: November 25, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Pentagon is making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in anticipation of President Obama’s decision on the future of the eight-year-old war, a defense official said Tuesday. Obama held a lengthy meeting with top advisers Monday night and said Tuesday that he [...]

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Clinton pleased with Karzai’s promises

By doris | Published: November 21, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she is pleased by Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s pledge to have the country’s security forces take the lead over the next few years. Speaking to U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan, Clinton said the United States and other [...]

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Clinton criticizes Bush handling of Afghan conflict

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com Clinton told CNN the Bush administration was unrealistic both in terms of the number of U.S. soldiers it committed to the conflict and in its relationship with certain Afghan political leaders. The war was “under resourced” since its start in 2001, she said, and she indicated the Bush administration’s attention was improperly [...]

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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Oversight lacking on war costs

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at  Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, apparently sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defense contractor named Combat Support Associates, [...]

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Soldiers pulled from Iraq duty, sent straight to Afghanistan

By doris | Published: April 24, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com The 4th Engineer Battalion out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, deployed to Camp Victory near Baghdad in mid-February. Two weeks after the unit began actually going out on operations in Iraq, it was ordered to redeploy to Kandahar in Afghanistan. The soldiers hadn’t even finished painting their emblem outside their tactical operations [...]

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France, Germany endorse Obama’s Afghanistan plans

By doris | Published: April 4, 2009

Full Story At STRASBOURG, France – France and Germany fully endorsed President Barack Obama’s new Afghan war strategy but continued to firmly resist U.S. demands for more combat troops on Saturday in a rift that overshadowed symbols of unity at NATO’s 60th-anniversary summit. Obama told NATO leaders the alliance should remain open to new members, [...]

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