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US's futile stalemate in Afghanistan increasingly obvious
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9720/

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Afghanistan: The News Is Bad

While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25684.htm



Obama wants more money for Afghanistan war. Will Congress grant it?

"Some two-thirds of Democrats who supported the president in 2008 now oppose the president's Afghan policy," says former Rep. Tom Andrews (D) of Maine, national director of the Win Without War Coalition.

http://tinyurl.com/2ec4a5l


From Information Clearing House

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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy: The... News... Is... Bad
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/11-3

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McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Months

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the spectre of a collapse of US political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006."

http://www.truth-out.org/mcchrystal-faces-iraq-2006-moment-coming-months60404



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