Today is Friday, July 30th, 2010
brussels - president barack obama announced today he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that u.s. forces will begin coming home in july 2011. the first new marines will join the fight by christmas.
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“it comes close to a certain arrogance,” hughes said, “as if this president has done things that no other president has ever done before — except that they have done them before.”
obama's unprecedented use of "unprecedented" will likely continue in his second year in office, when the administration is expected to tackle the unprecedented deficit.
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