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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (20106)	9/30/2009 3:17:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "My point was if we're taking troops out of Iraq and sending them to Afghanistan is it just a net shift, or are we really decreasing our military presence in the Middle East?" Thus far it would appear to be the later... since the number of troops scheduled to be withdrawn from Iraq theater greatly exceeds all the extra commitments (actual to date, or planned) to Afghanistan. To my eyes, anyway... the recent increase in Afghanistan looks almost exactly like the blip upward on the chart for the 'Iraq surge'... which came shortly before the steady draw-down in Iraq commenced.