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WSJ: @BarackObama’s Surge Strategy Borrows From Bush Argument

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Surge Strategy Borrows From Bush Argument
The Obama administration, faced with mounting Congressional criticism, is trying to build support for its new Afghan strategy by explicitly linking the planned escalation to the Bush administration’s 2007 Iraq surge.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate panel the new strategy was designed to create “breathing space” for the Afghans, the exact phrase the Bush administration used to describe its goals for the Iraq surge.

The Obama administration’s appropriation of the surge comes as a surprise, given that then-Sen. Barack Obama was one of the policy’s leading Senate critics.

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Washington Times: Democrats attack Obama for Afghan strategy

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Democrats attack Obama for Afghan strategy
President Obama gave the orders to begin his new strategy for victory in Afghanistan and spent Monday preparing to sell that plan to the American people in a prime-time address, even as members of his own party emerged as the most persistent skeptics about the wisdom of sinking more money and lives into the 8-year-old conflict.
On Capitol Hill, Democratic members of a key House budget subcommittee submitted legislation to create a “war tax” out of concern that a plan to ramp up troops would be prohibitively expensive. Members of the Progressive Caucus sent Mr. Obama a letter advocating a firm timeline. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com