[ As I said over and over until I was blue in the face -- Obama and Bush are cut from the same cloth. The only genuine anti-war candidate was Dr. Ron Paul, but Americans couldn't fathom such a thing, apparently... Or at least that's what Diebold has told us... ]
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Sources: More US troops for Afghan war
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama plans to dispatch additional U.S. troops plus hundreds of civilian advisers in hopes of turning around a faltering war in Afghanistan and will recommend increasing aid to neighboring Pakistan so long as leaders there confront militancy, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday.
Obama plans to lay out his revamped strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday. Several sources told The Associated Press it includes 20 recommendations for countering a persistent insurgency that spans the two countries’ border…
In broad terms, Obama will define U.S. objectives as eliminating the threat from al-Qaida to undermine or topple U.S.-backed elected governments or to launch attacks on the United States, its interests and allies, the sources said.