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Bipartisan Group Pushes To Get U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 07.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, it's time to end the war in Afghanistan and bring U.S. troops home, several House Republicans and...

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Amanda Terkel

Interview With Ousted State Dept. Spokesman P.J. Crowley

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Despite resigning as State Department spokesman on March 13, P.J. Crowley remains deeply concerned about the effect that deep cuts to th...

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Amanda Terkel

Kirsten Gillibrand's Big Afghanistan Announcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- While President Obama has said that U.S. combat forces will begin leaving Afghanistan in July 2011 and be fully out by 2014, the pace of...

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Sam Stein

John Kerry: If Gen. David Petraeus Wanted More Troops For Afghanistan I'd Say 'No'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) stressed on Sunday that he would oppose requests for additional troops in Afghanistan...

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Obama: Afghanistan Deadline An 'Obsession' For Some

Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO (Associated Press) - President Barack Obama said Sunday that there's "a lot of obsession" about the withdrawal date for U.S. troops from Afgha...

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Sam Stein

Feinstein: If Petraeus Wants Afghanistan Troop Drawdown Scrapped, 'Give It To Him, Absolutely'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A senior Senate Democrat on foreign policy issues said on Sunday that the president's pledged July 2011 timeline for a troop drawdown in Afghanistan w...

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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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Afghanistan Withdrawal Date: 'Flexible' Or 'Locked In'?

Huffington Post | Nico PItney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Read below for a new update on December 4. During his speech from West Point on Tuesday, President Obama specified the date when U.S. forces would st...

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No Firm Plans For A U.S. Exit in Afghanistan: "New York Times"

nytimes.com | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces could remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to b...

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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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How Obama Homed In On Timeline For Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

The Los Angeles Times | Christi Parsons and Julian E. Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011

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It started out as a projection from the military, intended only for the ears of the president and his top advisors. But in a war council meeting at th...

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