US commanders hold secret meeting on Afghan war

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Source: AFP

WASHINGTON — Top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen on Friday held a secret meeting in Germany with the NATO commander in Afghanistan to discuss a request for more troops, officials said.

Mullen met General Stanley McChrystal at an air base in Ramstein "so he could get a better understanding of the general's request" for additional troops, a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The unannounced meeting comes at a pivotal moment in the war as President Barack Obama weighs strategy in the face of rising casualties, a disputed Afghan election and declining public support for the mission on both sides of the Atlantic.

McChrystal's appeal for more troops and resources was due to be formally submitted to Defense Secretary Robert Gates by Saturday but Gates has decided to hold off presenting the request to Obama until the administration completes a review of war strategy.

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A "secret meeting" or a "trial balloon"?

[timeforpeace]

1. Secret meeting. Reported on by AFP. Stupidity in journalism.Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to

be journalism majors.

[No Elephants]

14. How do you know the author of the story was a journalism major?

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Some secret!

[saigon68]

3. Na ----General McCrazy is going to get 30,000 more casualties in waiting

And soon

[L0oniX]

4. Ssshhhhh ...be vwery qwuiet ...I'm hunting the wabbit.

[lib2DaBone]

5. Yes.. Let's keep all this "Secret"...Fuck the taxpayers...

The more they can keep government operations 'secret'.. the more the American Peopple lose freedom. Is no one awake in Washington?

[FiveGoodMen]

6. "Is no one awake in Washington?"

They're awake. They're just not on our side. Don't let the D fool you.

[No Elephants]

15. The federales are awake. It's the rest of the country that is comatose.

[Mari333]

7. smells like ...VIETNAM

[saigon68]

8. Been there--- Done that

[peacebird]

9. As if more troops will get a different outcome - didn't work for the Brits or Russians...

won't work for us.

[saigon68]

11. This is the path to the devil

[FVZA_Colonel]

13. Afghanistan is the place where empires go to die.

[Solly Mack]

10. K/R

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. Wow that sure was a secret.