goldendog

[QUOTE=Gill;1058327104]Actually Obama has ordered an increase of around 23,000, while Bush increased troop levels there around 15,000 last year. Not a surprising increase based on the escalating violence there.[/QUOTES]

When exactly did Bush do those increases last year(LINK PLEASE) During the eight months that the troop request sat on his desk waiting for an approval that was neve issued.

Gill

[quote=goldendog;1058327109]Ahh, you want links yet "forget" to include them yourself....

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Gill

Bush approves new troop deployment in Afghanistan -DAWN - International; January 16, 2008

Bush shifting U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan - CNN.com


Any more questions???

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DeeJayH

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**** em in the mouth. Libs suck

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Bush Addresses Troop Levels in Iraq - washingtonpost.com

Interesting speech here that Bush gave in sept of last year...in it he clearly says the he mentioned in APRIL OF 2008 sending 3,500 more troops but actual deployments aren't really clear.

He also said that an additional one battalion would be sent in Jan 2009 (AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE)..so in reality Gill he SUGGESTED he would in april 2008 send 3,500 which for all we know were never sent.

So in reality Gill and the situation today proves it, Bush during the last year of his term did the absolute minimum in Afghanistan to support the troops or this country's mission there.

Any questions?

Here are some excerpts...

After September the 11th, 2001, Coalition forces destroyed the Taliban regime, we drove al Qaida from the Afghan sanctuary where they plotted and planned unprecedented attacks on our country. We helped Afghans begin to build a new democracy.


Together with our military, American civilian experts helped the Afghan people build their economy and provide basic services and expand health care as well as open up schools for Afghan girls and boys.


These were important successes, yet the enemies of a free Afghanistan refused to give up the fight. They sought to undermine the democratic government so they could regain the place of dominance they enjoyed in Afghanistan before September the 11th. With the help of their sanctuary in Pakistan, they ruthlessly attacked innocent Afghans across the country.


As the security situation changed, America and our Coalition partners responded with troop increases. At the NATO Summit in Bucharest in April, I told our allies the United States was deploying 3,500 more Marines to Afghanistan and that we would make additional forces available in 2009. I also called on allies to increase their force levels.

Gill

According to the Department of Defense, there were 26,607 troops in Afghanistan in January 2008. By the first of June, there were 48,250. That's an increase of 81%.

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22633.pdf

Sounds like a pretty decent increase to me.

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There is so much unforced variability in the system which we can’t predict — the chaotic component of the climate system — which is not predictable beyond two weeks, even theoretically.
Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS