Mullen says 2011 withdrawal could be minimal

AFP:

There is no set date for US troops to finish withdrawing from Afghanistan, and the number of soldiers leaving in 2011 "could be very few," the top uniformed US military officer said on Thursday.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen told CBS News that the 2011 deadline cited by President Barack Obama this week in unveiling a plan to send 30,000 more US troops to the conflict was only a start date for withdrawal.

"It's very clear that the president has given us guidance that in July of 2011, we'll start to transition security responsibility to the Afghan national security forces," Mullen said on the "Early Show."

"There's no determination of how long that will take... There's no specific guidance with respect to how many. It could be very few, it could be a large number," he added.

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Then again it could be dictated by Obama's political prospects in 2012. That would not be sound leadership, but we have seen little of that form this President so far.

Comments

  1. joe six-pack4:53 PM

    I believe that President Obama will have our troops out of both Iraq and Afghanistan by the beginning of 2012. I think that he wants to say that he ended BOTH wars in his first term.

    I really doubt that he fully understands our enemies.

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