Clinton: Afghanistan needs more troops
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Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday the resurgence of the Taliban and growth of the poppy harvest in Afghanistan are signs there are insufficient coalition troops in the country.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates  told Europe on Sunday it must boost defense spending and commit  more troops and money to Afghanistan if NATO is to remain a  potent military alliance.
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U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,  the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential  nomination, has called for a 90-day deadline to start pulling  American troops from Iraq.
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More troops and helicopters are desperately needed in Afghanistan, a British major says in a leaked e-mail.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday 3,200 more U.S. troops being deployed to Afghanistan will help NATO forces launch a spring offensive against the Taliban.
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The United States has begun flying  up to 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to  Afghanistan to provide increased security for that country's  Oct. 9 presidential election, the military said on Wednesday.
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NATO must do more to help train and equip Afghanistan&#39;s national army, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said here Friday.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Nine nations including Germany and France pledged to send more military personnel to Afghanistan but U.S. calls for major troop increases were only partly answered at NATO talks on Wednesday.
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On a trip to Afghanistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on NATO members to increase the number of troops they commit to the region.
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US President Bush says other Nato nations must do more in the battle against Afghanistan's Taleban.
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In American military parlance, it's gut-check time for NATO in Afghanistan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears ready to answer allies' calls for more forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda
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Defense chiefs from NATO's 26 nations  agreed on Saturday they needed more troops and fewer  limitations on the use of their forces to step up the fight  against insurgents in the violent south of Afghanistan.
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CRAWFORD, Tex., May 21 -- President Bush vowed Monday to ask NATO allies to commit more troops and other resources to quell the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, calling the success of the alliance's mission there vital to the future security of both the United States and Europe.
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called on the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for the safe withdrawal of the 147,000 US troops from Iraq.
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NATO's top operational commander wants more troops to help crush an expected Taliban offensive in Afghanistan but is facing widespread reluctance among allies to come forward, alliance officials said on Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday pushed European allies for more troops to re-energize efforts in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency has increased its attacks in the 18 months since NATO took command of the war.