Obama approves 13,000 more troops for Afghan quagmire
Obama approves 13,000 more troops for Afghan quagmire
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Obama approves 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AFP) – In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported.
The additional forces are primarily support forces — such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police — the Post said, bringing the total buildup Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000.
“Obama authorized the whole thing. The only thing you saw announced in a press release was the 21,000,” a defense official familiar with the troop-approval process told the daily.
The report, posted on the newspaper’s website late Monday, came as Obama weighs a request from the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for more combat, training and support troops, with several options including one for 40,000 more forces.
But the newspaper noted that the maximum number of US service members expected in Afghanistan by year’s end — 68,000 — would remain the same.
Major deployments of support troops have not been publicized by the Pentagon and the White House in the past. When former president George W. Bush announced a US troop increase in Iraq, he only mentioned 20,000 combat troops and not the accompanying 8,000 support troops.
The troop increase approved by Obama brought the level of US forces deployed in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters to a total greater than during the peak of the surge in Iraq in late 2007 and early 2008.
At the start of this month, some 65,000 US forces are currently in Afghanistan and about 124,000 in Iraq, compared to around 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq at the height of the Iraq surge, according to a troop count by the Post.
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Be sure to scroll down to the “Afghanistan: Back Door to War on Iran” article linked near the bottom of the following URL:
Disinformation about the Iranian “Threat”:
The primary motivation for the tragic attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and on 9/11 was US support for Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinian people (can read James Bamford response to the question about such at the bottom of the following URL):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/ask.html
Take a look at the exchange with Lee Hamilton in the following youtube video:
What motivated the 9/11 hijackers? See testimony most didn’t:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg&feature=PlayList&p=F81BB573C9C0C7B2&index=0&playnext=1
So one can clearly argue that 9/11 happened because of Israel and that the US invaded Afghanistan because of 9/11 and therefore because of Israel (look up ‘Israel as a terrorist’s motivation’ in Bamford’s ‘A Pretext for War’ book as the paperback version of ‘A Pretext for War’ includes an additional section about the AIPAC espionage case).
US support for Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinians PRIMARY MOTIVATION for tragic attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and on 9/11:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/08/05/the-gorilla-in-the-room-is-us-support-for-israel.php
You might be interested in taking a listen to the following youtube which includes the call for Karen Kwiatkowski and Dr. Stephen Sneigoski (author of ‘The Transparent Cabal’ about the Iraq quagmire):
http://tinyurl.com/indepthdiscussion
Additional at the following URL:
http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-depth-discussion.html
Karen was a Lt. Colonel with the US Air Force working at the Pentagon and resigned after she saw what JINSA Neocon Douglas Feith was up to via his Office of Special Plans there. She also saw Israeli generals walking to Feith’s office on a regular basis before the Iraq invasion got underway (see the following article for the American Conservative):
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/nc-kwiatkowski3.html