Obama, Chiefs Meet Today on Afghanistan

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Obama, Chiefs Meet Today on Afghanistan
October 30, 2009
Agence France-Presse

President Barack Obama today meets his top military chiefs to talk strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan in one of the final steps before deciding whether to send thousands more U.S. troops to war.

Obama invited the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the heads of the branches of the U.S. armed services, to the secure White House Situation Room to hear their input on his war plan and deliberations on troop numbers, officials said.

He will hold the meeting a day after his poignant visit to witness the return to home soil of fallen Americans from Afghanistan, after which he said the heavy sacrifice of U.S. Soldiers was weighing on his decision-making.

"It was a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our young men and women in uniform are engaging in every single day," Obama said in the Oval Office, hours after watching remains of 18 U.S. servicemen flown home.

"Obviously the burden that both our troops and our families bear in any wartime situation is going to bear on how I see these conflicts.


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