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Obama Challenges Troop Surge in Afghanistan

Asks for clear strategy before sending more troops

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 8, 2009 6:52 AM CST

(Newser) – President Obama has called for a review of the planned deployment of up to 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a nation that some fear will become his “Vietnam,” the Times of London reports. Some 17,000 more troops were poised to head... Read full story »

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