U.S. official expects that sometime in the future gov't will withdraw some troops from Afghanistan!

[Better Believe It]

Yippeee!

You mean U.S troops won't occupy Afghanistan forever?

That's wonderful news!

Oh .... and it will take a year of more to build up U.S. troops in Afghanistan. So any talk about beginning the withdrawl of U.S military forces from Afghanistan in six months or perhaps a year is just a wee bit off.

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A US official said Obama would offer a time frame for reducing forces, though without setting dates, as he has in Iraq. The official said: "There will be an expectation of a time in the future when we will begin to thin out forces." Another official said that, in order not to alarm the Afghan and Pakistani governments, "no-one is using the 'exit strategy' phrase".

It could take 12 to 18 months to deploy fully the two brigades. The number of troops in a brigade varies from day to day, meaning that the extra deployment could be anything between 30,000 and 35,000. There are about 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan at present.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/30/obama-troops-afghanistan

[eleny]

1. Or maybe tomorrow night Obama's first two words will be, "Just kidding!"

[ShortnFiery]

2. Only after the MIC has been *gifted* another TRILLION of our tax dollars for the purposes ...

of DEATH and DESTRUCTION. :(