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Officials: Obama Rejects Afghan Options

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WASHINGTON (Nov. 12) -- President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, administration officials say, amid an argument by his own ambassador in Kabul that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government.
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