Obama Afghanistan Plan

Obama War Plan Set To Get Congress' Backing, Despite Misgivings

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Th...

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Gibbs: White House Hits Back At Cheney's "Dithering" Charge

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that Preside...

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Obama Afghanistan Speech TEXT, VIDEO: Watch West Point Address

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Tuesday, President Obama laid out his Afghanistan war strategy in an address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The president talked about...

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Obama's War Strategy Has Echoes Of Bush

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — It feels like 2007 all over again. Different war, different president, but "surge" is back in vogue. President Barack Obama's reva...

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Obama's Afghanistan Plan: Marines To Be First Wave

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE and STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WEST POINT, N.Y. — Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Af...

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Dan Froomkin

Obama's Questions For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just under three years ago, when another presidential administration was insisting that its military commitment in a faraway land was not open-ended -...

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Obama Broadening Afghanistan War Into 'War of Choice' and Not 'Necessity': CFR

CFR | Bernard Gwertzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Interviewee: Richard N. Haass, President, CFR.org Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting editor, CFR.org CFR President Richard N. Haass's late...

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Obama Afghanistan Goal 'Unattainable:' Analysis

Foreign Policy In Focus | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's official. President Barack Obama now fully owns the war in Afghanistan. Standing alongside his military advisors and in front of the Washington p...

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Obama's New Afghanistan Strategy Announcement (LIVE VIDEO)

MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama unveils his new strategy for Afghanistan: More troops, more diplomats, more aid workers and billions more dollars. Watch it live here...

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Obama's Afghanistan Policy Sneak Peak: Ambinder

Marc Ambinder | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's new posture toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be unveiled tomorrow, codifies for the first time Iran's role in regional dip...

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US To Plant Afghan 'Prime Minister' To Bypass Hamid Karzai: Guardian

guardian.co.uk | Julian Borger in Brussels and Ewen MacAskill in Washington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The US and its European allies are ­preparing to plant a high-profile figure in the heart of the Kabul government in a direct challenge to the Afghan...

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Obama Refuses To Be Rushed On Troop Decision, Surprising Military

Politico/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's chief spokesman said Monday that he will make a decision "within days, not weeks," on how many additional troops to send to A...

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Military Official On Afghan Strategy: "Frankly, We Don't Have One"

Msnbc.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pentagon is prepared to announce the deployment of 17,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan as early as this week even as President B...

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