US General Wants 10,000 MORE Troops in Afghanistan Next Year

[tekisui]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army General David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has asked for an additional 10,000 troops to be deployed to the country next year, senior defense officials said on Wednesday.

The officials said no decision was needed on the request until the autumn and President Barack Obama wanted to review progress in the Afghan war later this year.

"There is a request for forces, for those elements," U.S. Army General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, told the U.S. Senate's armed services committee in response to a question from the panel's chairman, Senator Carl Levin.

Michele Flournoy, under secretary of defense for policy, told the committee that the administration was open to requests for more troops but expected those requests could change during the year as the war went on.

The number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is already expected to rise this year from 38,000 to 68,000, Flournoy told the panel. Other nations, mainly NATO allies, have some 32,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Obama on Friday announced a new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which included a decision to deploy 4,000 more U.S. troops to train Afghan security forces.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE53065L20090401

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. They need them to search for the light at the end of the tunnel.

And, to prevent the falling of dominoes.

Whoops. Wrong war but the same stupid strategy which will produce the same results.

[tekisui]

2. With just 10,000 more, I think we are turning a corner.

The insurgency is in its last throes. I feel like I've see this movie.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Yep. It was remade in Iraq. Now Afghanistan. Soon, Pakistan.

They should have given up after saving us from Mighty Grenada.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Well, that 512 Billion/year budget will not spend itself. Oh wait? The wars are ADDITIONAL!

Can you imagine what we could have done with over A TRILLION DOLLARS back here in the USA?!?

Methinks our country is being run by The Pentagon and Big Business THROUGH our gutless Blue Dog Democrats and the GOP. :thumbsdown:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. The "defense" department is obviously defending our right to bankruptcy.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. MR. PRESIDENT, FIRE HIM LIKE TRUMAN DID

GENERALS WANT AND NEED WAR

[ShortnFiery]

6. And tell him to take General "Peaches" Petraeus with him.

[monmouth]

7. Wonder if he's one of Cheeeney's "moles."...n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. USA needs more enemies - a few more hundred bombed wedding parties/schools/hospitals

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Ruin their infrastructure so they are back about 20 - 50 years ago,

that should do it.

SOMEONE's relative(s) will surely make an attack within the USA,

then that will PROVE we gotta slaughter them "over there" . .

nice thinking USA

(sigh)

I am disgusted that we Canadians have even ONE combat soldier over there;

we USED to be a peace-keeping country.

Thanks alot Martin and Harper . .

assholes kissing uknow what . .

(sigh) again