Biden Retreats On Afghanistan Drawdown (VIDEO)

[spiritual_gunfighter]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is taking a more cautious approach when it comes to next summer's planned military U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan.

He once predicted the drawdown next July would mean "a lot of people moving out."

But he tells ABC's "This Week" that the number of U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan "could be as few as a couple of thousand troops."

President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan last December, bringing the U.S. total to about 100,000.

Biden says it's too early to judge whether the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will succeed, but he says there is progress.

A record 103 NATO troops were killed in June, the deadliest month of the nearly 9-year-old war for international forces.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/biden-retreats-on-afghani_n_650706.html

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The backtracking on the pull out from Afghanistan has already begun.

[pocoloco]

1. Woops!!

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[spiritual_gunfighter]

5. Yeah I dont think he went off the reservation on this one

This has been their plan all along, it will be interesting to see how the Obama administration will continue to put stuff like this out in the media so when July 2011 comes and there is no draw down they can say look we told you already.

[saigon68]

2. Perpetual War

[madmax]

4. for perpetual peace...

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