From a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/16/gates-us-may-send-even-more-troops-to-afghanistan-than-planned/"Anti-war.com/a:br /br /blockquotespan style="font-style:italic;"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that the United States could wind up sending even more troops to Afghanistan this year than was initially planned. During a visit to Fort Drum in New York, Secretary span style="font-weight:bold;"Gates said the number of troops by the end of the year could exceed the 68,000 planned in the Obama Administration’s escalation/span, though he said it probably would not be much higher.br /br /National Security Adviser James Jones had earlier this month insisted that the US would not be increasing the number of troops to be sent to Afghanistan this year, though he did say span style="font-weight:bold;"the Obama Administration might send another 10,000 troops sometime in 2010./spanbr /br /New Afghan Commanderspan style="font-weight:bold;" Gen. Stanley McChrystal, however, has been told there is no limit to what he can ask for in additional troops/span, and he is expected to issue his report on the current troop levels sometime soon. It has been widely speculated McChrystal would ask for more troops./span/blockquotebr /br /Want an escalation done right? br /br /Give the job to obvious graduates of the McNamara School of Successful Military Interventions.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-7340610402449612406?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div
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