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Army chief of staff says he favors sending more US troops to Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON - The Army's chief of staff says he believes more troops are needed in Afghanistan. But Gen. George Casey isn't saying exactly how many more should be sent into the war.
Casey says more troops would help cut into the Taliban's successes while U.S. forces continue training Afghan security forces.
President Barack Obama is considering several options to increase the number of troops fighting in Afghanistan, including Gen. Stanley McChrystal's preference of about 40,000 additional U.S. forces next year.
Casey appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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We seem to be accidently killing
more Afghans than we are training. This may have been the "war" we should have been in but too many years have gone by. Iraq has shown how … read more corrupt we would leave Afghanistan so they want nothing to do with our brand of politics. And our backing of the recently, so called democraticaly elected leader, has just sent any credibility we may have right into the crapper.
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