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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Senators, Advisers Urge Obama to More Than Double Afghan Forces

President Barack Obama and top U.S. military commanders are being pressed by senators and civilian advisers to more than double the size of Afghan security forces, a move that would cost billions of dollars.

In letters and face-to-face meetings, the lawmakers and defense officials urged Obama, National Security Advisor Jim Jones and the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan to boost the Afghan National Army and police from current levels of 175,000 to at least 400,000.

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And who is gonna train these additional 225,000 recruits?? You guess!

And who is gonna pay for all the arms and equipment from theMilitary Industrial Complex that is needed to arm these people - YOU ARE!!!

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