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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General George Casey, Army chief of staff, on Sunday became the latest U.S. military official to advocate sending more troops to Afghanistan as President Barack Obama nears a decision on a new strategy. Full Article at ABC News
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By Peter Spiegel WASHINGTON -- The Army's top general, who has long raised concerns that repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan could damage the military's readiness, said he backed an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan.The comments by Gen. Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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The United States' army's chief of staff, General George Casey, said today that he believes more troops are needed in Afghanistan. Full Article at Wikinews
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Gen. George Casey lent his support this morning to calls for more troops in Afghanistan. The Army Chief of Staff, Casey suggested he agreed with Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for up to 40,000 additional troops as part of a "counterinsurgency" Full Article at The Hill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General George Casey, Army chief of staff, on Sunday became the latest U.S. military official to advocate sending more troops to Afghanistan as President Barack Obama nears a decision on a new strategy. Full Article at Reuters
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I believe that we need to put additional forces into Afghanistan to give General McChrystal the ability to both dampen the successes of the Taliban while we train the Afghan civilian forces
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The Army remains out of balance. But we started in 2007 with a program to get ourselves back in balance by 2011. And since 2007, we have added 40,000 soldiers to the active force, which is a significant step forward
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I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I've asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that
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I think that's something that we have to look at on an individual basis.
