House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to discuss the desire of President Karzai and President Bush to increase troop strengths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many analysts expect the Taliban to make a new attacking push in the Spring once the snows have melted and the flooding in the mountain rivers, streams and wadis has subsided.
President Bush is planning to ask for an additional $10.6 billion for Afghanistan from a Congress that is posturing that it will not fund additional requests for Iraq. That is likely to be Democratic bluster as the new Congress and the President commence a simple game of chicken. Its all politics, but when the politicians actually dig in and talk business they know that more money and more troops are needed on both fronts if we are to keep or currently deployed troops safe.
The White House does not want to see the number of troop deaths increase or even hold at their current rates due to a lack of deployment of the resources so obviously required. Similarly, the Democrats can not put themselves in a position where a lack of funding or the prevention of sending more troops would result in more deaths of existing troops. Fortunately, for our deployed troops the politicians must act in their best interest and send more help.
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