U.S. to Reduce Number of Troops in Afghanistan The United States said it had ordered a reduction in the number of American troops in Afghanistan to about 16,500 from the current 19,000 by next spring. The first such cut since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban government was sparked by a planned increase in NATO peacekeepers there next year and the growing size of Afghan security forces, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other defense officials said. Rumsfeld told reporters flying with him to Asia on Tuesday that the U.S. military would "continue to do the heavy lifting" in Afghanistan despite the reduction, even as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization boosts its International Security Assistance Force to 15,000.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Ass Backwards Policy
Just when you thought the Bush administration couldn't get any dumber, they announce they are now going to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan.
If you want to be taken serious about 'fighting a war on terror', you need to finish the war with those who are responsible for 9/11. Where's bin Laden?
The most incompetent administration this country has ever had....It's not even close...
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National Debt
On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.