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Obama's Afghan War Plan Is Tough Sell

He's Expected to Announce Strategy of Sending 30,000 More Troops

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WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, a senior administration official said Tuesday, on an accelerated timetable that would dispatch several hundred Marines by Christmas.
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In his address tonight about the war in Afghanistan, President Obama will call for adding as many as 35,000 more U.S. troops, outline a revamped strategy to train Afghan security forces, and lay out an exit strategy. But his plan faces considerable obstacles, such as a leery Democratic-controlled Congress and a public divided on the conflict. \n\n