<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/746d0976-06e9-4857-b0cc-e52ef2da51b3/5EBDF51F-0052-4ED5-8379-23660148B8D2/" 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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/" href="http://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/" style="font-size: 11px;">dougpowers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><H1><A rel="bookmark" href="http://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/ ">Update on Obama’s 3-Front War (Iraq, Afghanistan, Fox News)</A></H1></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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><P>President Obama has ordered 13,000 more troops — sorry, “support personnel” — <STRONG><A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091013/wl_afp/usafghanistanmilitarytroops_20091013051645">to Afghanistan</A></STRONG>:</P></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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><P>In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported.</P></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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><P><STRONG>The additional forces are primarily support forces — such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police</STRONG> — the Post said, bringing the total buildup Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000.</P></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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><P>I’m not a military expert, but it seems like if there’s already a security problem, sending more people who need security and not enough to provide it is only worsening an already dicey situation.</P></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://dougpowers.com/2009/10/13/update-on-obamas-3-front-war-iraq-afghanistan-fox-news/"><P>General McCrystal asked for approximately 40-60,000 troops in order to do the job in Afghanistan and has since gotten 13,000 — slowly. In fairness to Obama, he is dispatching those 13,000 troops along with a copy of the movie “<STRONG><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)">300</A></STRONG>.”</P></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/5EBDF51F-0052-4ED5-8379-23660148B8D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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