Obama to meet high-powered aides for Afghan review

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Source: AFP

Obama to meet high-powered aides for Afghan review

By Stephen Collinson (AFP) – 7 hours ago

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama gathers an array of high-powered advisors Wednesday to begin a sweeping Afghan strategy review that will culminate in a fateful decision on whether to escalate the war.

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Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were the top ranking civilian officials expected for a bracing session on a war some supporters fear could swamp Obama's presidency.

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Other top military brass included were General David Petraeus who heads US central command, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair.

CIA chief Leon Panetta was also due to take part, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the US ambassadors to Islamabad and Kabul.

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1. LBJ ushered in Medicaid and civil rights, but Vietnam brought him down.

Obama could be going down the same road with the same pitfalls. He has read about Lincoln so I hope he has read other history as well.

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2. With the deaths in Afghanistan increasing and

and Gen. McCrazy and Gen Betrayus sounding more and more like Wastemoreland Redux 1967.

The peace movement is and will continue to organize.

Demos in the streets, tear gas and down with the pigs

AAAH the good old days