Not so fast on Afghanistan, top Democrat warns

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	Not so fast on Afghanistan, top Democrat warns

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37763b93-7344-4303-bcab-a4c4ae0a47f8/5796A143-C05C-4740-B44E-901929ED86C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html" style="font-size: 11px;">rawstory.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html">Not so fast on Afghanistan, top Democrat warns</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html"><STRONG>John Byrne
</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html"><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000000">Published: Wednesday February 18, 2009</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html"><DIV><IMG vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="http://jewsinthenews.net/img/senator-russ-feingold.jpg" />Conventional wisdom appears to be that sending more troops to Afghanistan is a good idea -- and that President George W. Bush's decision to divert troops from Afghanistan to Iraq was bad.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html"><DIV>
But a progressive Senate Democrat isn't so sure. In a subtle rebuke to President Barack Obama's decision yesterday to deploy 17,000 more US troops to the war-torn country, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) questioned whether an increased US presence was a good idea.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/rawstory.com/img/28C1B4C7-3467-4CAA-BE7F-41F97AFA0D91" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html">
"After years of a failed foreign policy which distracted us from our top national security priority of defeating al Qaeda and its affiliates, I am encouraged by President Obama's focus on Afghanistan where the 9/11 attacks originated," Feingold said in a statement that received little to no attention Tuesday.  "But we need to make sure we have a strategy in place for Afghanistan that will actually work before we commit thousands more U.S. troops.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5796A143-C05C-4740-B44E-901929ED86C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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