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Obama To US Troops: Bin Laden Got His Justice

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.01.2012

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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- President Barack Obama is telling troops in Afghanistan that Osama bin Laden got his justice one year ago, as the pre...

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Gibbs On Karzai: 'On Behalf Of The American People, We're Frustrated'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration on Monday continued to express its frustration over a series of anti-American comments made by Afghanistan President Hamid Ka...

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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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Levin Warns Against Time Lines For U.S. Forces In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The extent to which President Obama will receive Democrat support for escalating military forces in Afghanistan seems directly tied to his insistence ...

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US Troops Hopeful Obama Plan Will Wind Down War

AP | DENIS GRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE AIRBORNE, Afghanistan — U.S. service members in Afghanistan said President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more tr...

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Newsweek: Strange Bedfellows Oppose Afghanistan Escalation

newsweek.com | Katie Connolly | Posted 05.25.2011

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If President Obama decides to endorse Gen. Stanley McChrystal's plan to send tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, he'll find an unli...

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Gates: Afghanistan Troop Levels Could Rise Again

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The Pentagon's chief said Thursday he could send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year than he'd initially expected and is conside...

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Preempting A Progressive Split On Afghanistan

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Obama administration spends the next two months reviewing strategy options for Afghanistan, a progressive organization is attempting to cobble ...

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Afghan Ambassador Trumpets Obama Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States trumpeted major portions of Barack Obama's approach towards his country on Tuesday, marking the second t...

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