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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (31924)	8/31/2017 11:46:00 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361661

<<<<<You have not seen me oppose cuts to the military in a very long time>>> Good! Maybe you are coming around. You oppose the Trump increases then. At these levels of military we have now, why do you think it is the most important thing government does? Why is protecting Americans in every corner of the world MORE important than protecting Americans right here in our own community hospitals? We are in danger of losing the battle against antibiotic resistances. As it stands each year we lose many more than was lost in our worst years from terrorism. It makes no sense whatsoever! Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major problem in hospitals worldwide. 1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that, in the United States, approximately 99,000 deaths each year are related to HAIs, on the basis of data obtained from multiple healthcare databases. 2 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

To: i-node who wrote (31924)	8/31/2017 12:39:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361661

Pentagon Admits True Number of Troops in Afghanistan Troop total had been understated by thousands By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Aug 31, 2017 12:49 AM CDT newser.com (NEWSER) – Pentagon officials have finally acknowledged the actual number of American forces in Afghanistan after long camouflaging the total in misleading accounting measures and red tape. Senior Defense Department officials said Wednesday there are about 11,000 US forces currently deployed to Afghanistan—thousands more than the 8,400 that were allowed under the previous administration's troop cap. Military officials have long quietly acknowledged there were far more forces in the country than the cap allowed, but commanders shuffled troops in and out, labeled many "temporary," and used other personnel accounting tactics to artificially keep the public count low, the AP reports. Pentagon officials refused to provide similar details for Iraq and Syria, where there also are thousands more US troops than the Pentagon publicly admits. The Afghanistan troop numbers announcement comes as the Pentagon is preparing to deploy several thousand more Americans to the country in order to expand the training and advising of Afghan forces and beef up counterterror operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked groups. Officials have said the US will send as many as 3,900 more troops to the war—which would bring the number of publicly recognized troops there to about 15,000. (President Trump says he is going against his "original instinct" on Afghanistan.)