Michael Moore Rewrites History of Obama Campaign on Afghanistan

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As President Obama stands poised to escalate the war in Afghanistan while purportedly offering an exit strategy from it, Americans can and should debate whether his is the right course for U.S. national security interests. The list of contingencies which must go right for the U.S. to succeed - curbing corruption in the Karzai government, securing Pakistani cooperation and commitment in battling insurgents in its frontier regions and buying off Pashtun tribal warlords, just to name a few - is a very long one. But to claim, as Michael Moore now does, that candidate Barack Obama never told his supporters he would dramatically ratchet up the American effort there is just fantasy.

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/michael-moore-rewrites-history-obama-on-afghanistan

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1. He talked about 7-10k troops.

He added 22,000 and just ordered about 30k. He said he would make it the focus. But, if people were listening to him say adding 10k, and now we are looking at 52k more....there is quite a difference.

At some point you have to admit troops aren't doing it.