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White House Quietly Authorize 13,000 More Troops to Afghan War


The Drudge Report (headlines are down now) used that title to describe what is normally done each time combat troops are sent to war...geez?!

President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials.

The additional troops are primarily support forces, including engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police. Their deployment has received little mention by officials at the Pentagon and the White House, who have spoken more publicly about the combat troops who have been sent to Afghanistan.

The deployment of the support troops to Afghanistan brings the total increase approved by Obama to 34,000.

Give me a break.  Whenever combat troops are sent to harms way, the DoD's practice has been to deploy a total of about 9,500 per combat brigade.

Fox News does the same thing:

In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching up to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March. 

The additional troops are primarily support forces -- such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police.

Talk about trying to MAKE news, these cable stations must be really bored.

At least Fox News admits that the Bush administration did the same thing:

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 U.S. troop increase in Iraq, he only mentioned 20,000 combat troops and not the accompanying 8,000 support troops.

Talk about your Right Wing propaganda!  They make this look like Obama is trying to once again GET AWAY with something tax payers need to know about.


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It's so affirming to have more than one reason to leave the Democratic Party.

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