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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (28165)8/23/2008 11:47:38 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
McCain's claim that the surge worked is nothing but a hogwash. The reason we see a apparent peace in Iraq is because like the migrating whales, the Taliban migrated to Afghanistan and Pakistan and secondly it is the Sunnis and not General Patreaus who took matters in their own hands and turned against the Al Qaeda in Iraq after the bombing of a marriage party in Jordan. Meanwhile, the terrorists continue to hold sway as this Times newspaper item indicates.
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Army deaths put Nicolas Sarkozy in line of fire
Matthew Campbell, Paris

FRENCH troops in Afghanistan suffered one of their worst military defeats since the Algerian war of independence, leaving President Nicolas Sarkozy facing one of the biggest crises of his political career as he came under attack for supporting Nato against the Taliban.

Amid an unprecedented display of national doubt and soul-searching, parliamentary hearings on the French role in Afghanistan were being scheduled to address growing public concern about young men being used as “cannon fodder” in a war against a seemingly invincible enemy.

...contd at timesonline.co.uk
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