REad; write three good questions for Obama to answer
at West Point press conference. What does he say...that answers your questions??
Write the answers to your questions!! Be a good reporter!!
WASHINGTON – Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to over six months, a said Tuesday, on an accelerated timetable that would dispatch several hundred Marines by Christmas.
With the full complement of troops expected by next summer, the heightened pace of Obama's in the 8-year-old war would appear to match the 2007 troop surge in Iraq , which rushed 20,000 to quell violence there.
In his prime-time speech to the nation Tuesday night Obama will tie the escalation to an exit , laying out a rough timeframe and some dates for when the main war would end.
Obama will try to sell a skeptical public on his bigger, costlier war plan by coupling the large new troop infusion with an emphasis on stepped-up training for Afghan forces that he says will allow the U.S. to leave.
The quick addition of Marines would provide badly needed reinforcements to those fighting against Taliban gains in the southern Afghanistan.
Obama also will insist that a specific withdrawal scenario be built into the process of adding new forces. Obama would lay out an endgame for U.S. involvement.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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