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Rogue
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Posted on 06-22-11 08:11 PM Link | Quote
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Since this is being announced RIGHT NOW, expect updates:
President Obama is delivering a speech at the White House announcing plans to withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September of next year.

The president says that the withdrawal signals the beginning of the end of the war that began shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. and allies have agreed to turn over security responsibility to the Afghans in the year 2014.

Some highlights of the president's speech:

8:07 p.m. -- Obama says he has a simple goal for Afghanistan: "No safe-haven from which al Qaeda or its affiliates can launch attacks against our homeland, or our allies."

8:06 p.m. -- Obama cites progress in Afghanistan -- the death of Osama bin Laden, rollbacks of Taliban gains, improved Afghan security forces.

BUT: "Huge challenges remain. This is the beginning -- but not the end -- of our effort to wind down this war."

8:04 p.m. -- Obama gets quickly to the numbers: "We are meeting our goals. As a result, starting next month, we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and we will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer."

8:02 p.m. -- The president opens by citing a somber anniversary: It has been nearly ten years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the cause of the initial Afghanistan invasion. Obama says that when he took office, he needed a new Afghanistan strategy because the nation had been distracted by Iraq -- and he sent more than 30,000 new troops in "one of the most difficult decisions that I've made as President."

8:01 p.m. -- The president is in the East Room, ready to go.


More updates:

8:12 p.m. -- Obama again pledges to end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and cites their cost: "Over the last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times. Now, we must invest in America's greatest resource -- our people.

8:10 p.m. -- Obama says these wars will end -- and that the United States must be smarter about future conflicts: "When threatened, we must respond with force – but when that force can be targeted, we need not deploy large armies overseas."

8:09 p.m. -- The president talks about the toll of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have had here at home: "This has been a difficult decade for our country. We have learned anew the profound cost of war -- a cost that has been paid by the nearly 4500 Americans who have given their lives in Iraq, and the over 1500 who have done so in Afghanistan."

(Last edited by Rogue on 06-22-11 08:16 PM)
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