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Trump repeatedly called for withdrawal from Afghanistan, now will reportedly announce troop surge"Places like Afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities," Trump said during the campaign.
JUDD LEGUM AUG 20, 2017, 8:43 PM
For years, Donald Trump repeatedly called for a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, calling military operations there a waste of money and lives. But now, as president, Trump will use his first primetime address to the nation on Monday to announce a new strategy in Afghanistan.
According to multiple reports, Trump will tell the country that he plans to send thousands of additional troops to the country. If those reports prove accurate, Trump will be pursuing a strategy that breaks sharply from his public statements dating back more than six years.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-afghanistan-troop-surge-955e8c18bf0c/
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Trump repeatedly called for withdrawal from Afghanistan, now will reportedly announce troop surge (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2017
OP
WinstonSmith00
(228 posts)1. More money for the war machine.
War=Greed nothing else.
We need to stop feeding the beast the Democrats better all refuse to pay for this its time to stop military funding of the officers and their war machines.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)2. Con artist
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Yep
100%
spanone
(135,919 posts)4. Liar-in-Chief
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)5. More money and more deaths