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Wed 12 Dec 2009Increase in troops to be portrayed as exit strategy
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama last night faced the difficult task of portraying his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as an exit strategy, in a nationwide TV address.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed that Mr Obama would announce the deployment of between 30,000 and 34,000 more US soldiers, in addition to the 71,000 already in Afghanistan. There are still 120,000 US troops in Iraq.
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