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June 24, 2011

Obama Meets Soldiers, Touts Afghan War Plan 
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President Obama met with soldiers in upstate New York Thursday as part
of his effort to drum-up support for his plan on maintaining the war in
Afghanistan. Obama has announced he will scale back his troop surge, but
will keep a large troop force in Afghanistan until 2014. Obama told
soldiers, "There's still some fighting to be done."

President Obama: "Our job is not finished. If you looked at the schedule
I set forth. We are only bringing out 10,000 this year, we are going to
bring out all 33,000 that we surged by next summer, but there's still
some fighting to be done."



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