Vets groups back Afghanistan troop increase

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Vets groups back Afghanistan troop increase
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Dec 2, 2009 19:49:09 EST

Major veterans groups generally support President Barack Obama’s Tuesday night announcement that he intends to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But they are not completely satisfied with some of the details.

The nation’s largest veterans group, the American Legion, supports the troop increase but opposes setting a July 2011 date to begin troop withdrawal. “The American Legion is opposed to any exit strategy that takes place before the mission in Afghanistan is accomplished,” said Clarence Hill, the Legion’s national commander. “To do otherwise would more correctly be called a ‘surrender strategy.’ ”

While expressing support for adding 30,000 troops to the mission, Hill also said the Legion would back an even bigger troop increase, such as the figure of 40,000 discussed earlier this year. He also called for an overall increase in the size of the U.S. military so there are more people to bear the burden of deployments.

“The best way to address the extremely high demands that we are placing on our military heroes is to increase our overall military troop levels,” Hill said, noting the Legion advocated a bigger military long before the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which has taken no position specifically on the trop increase, is concerned about something that wasn’t mentioned at all in Obama’s Tuesday night address: taking care of veterans.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/military_obamaspeech_vetsgroups_120209w/



unhappycamper comment: The war-mongering American Legion must have a gigantic woody on. These are the original 'More War' folks.

[saigon68]

1. Disgusting Bush Bots

These fuckers are the ones who trashed Max Cleland