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Obama's war speech to outline both escalation and exit from Afghanistan
Nov 25 2009, Alex

When he talks to the nation next week about his Afghanistan strategy, President Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an eight-year-old war that is increasingly unpopular with the American public, while he also outlines.

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