WEST POINT, New York (CNN) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that America "did not ask for" the war in Afghanistan.
In a nationally televised speech announcing the deployment of 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, Obama recounted the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
"Al Qaeda's base of operations was in Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban – a ruthless, repressive and radical movement that seized control of that country after it was ravaged by years of Soviet occupation and civil war, and after the attention of America and our friends had turned elsewhere," Obama said.
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Who is the President kidding?????
Obama must send troops to Afganistan
because he has to get them
OFF THE UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
this is guns and butter
there's no butter
so we have to manufacture GUNS
Poor Obama.. doesn't want to do it
but six unemployed for every available job?????
what's a mother to do?
so far great speech
Some of us didnt ask for an Unsafe America, but we have it with Obama.
operative word is 'was'