Obama’s Afghan decision took Presidential courage in the face ...

Courtesy Donklephant  Wed, 12/02/2009 - 5:33pm

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President Obama addresses the Cadet Corps and the nation at West Point

President Obama has made the right decision to commit 30,000 more Americans troops to the fight in Afghanistan — on top of the 20,000 additional troops he approved early this year – to “finish the job” of defeating al Qaeda and its essential ally, Mullah Omar’s Taliban.

Obama said last year as a candidate that this is the “necessary war” and that he would...


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