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Thu 11 Nov 2009Obama to tell US why more Afghan troops necessary
NEXT TUESDAY at 8pm, President Barack Obama will deliver a televised address to the American people from West Point military academy to explain why he is sending tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan.
The speech will last about 40 minutes – twice as long as it took George W Bush to explain his “surge” strategy in Iraq – and will attempt to reconcile the goals of “finishing the job” (Mr Obama’s words) and defining an endgame, exit strategy or, as White House advisers say, “off ramps” from an eight-year-old war that has claimed close to 900 American lives.
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