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October 8, 2009

Pentagon: Obama, Military Reviewing McChrystal Assessment
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The violence comes as the Pentagon has confirmed President Obama has
received General Stanley Mc Chrystal’s assessment seeking up to 40,000
additional US troops. Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell said the
assessment is being reviewed by military leaders.

Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell: “The Secretary late last week
provided to the President, at his request, an informal copy of General
Mc Chrystal’s resource request. He then, also at the President’s
request, on Monday provided the principals with copies, informal copies,
of the request. The request is now formally working its way through the
chain of command, the US chain of command and the NATO command, and so
that’s the latest on where the resource request stands.”

Wednesday marked the eighth anniversary of the Afghan war. Week-long
protests continued with rallies on a number of college campuses
organized by the group Students for a Democratic Society.



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