claim: "the president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."
author: colin powell
evidence_1: dec 5, 2009 ... how much their sacrifice weighed on him that veterans day last month, he did  not say. but his advisers say he was haunted by the human toll as he wrestled  with what to do about the eight-year-old war. just a month earlier, he had  mentioned to them his visits to wounded soldiers at the army hospital in ...
evidence_2: barack obama - wars in iraq and afghanistan: for all of obama's efforts at  rapprochement with much of the world, he—like george w. bush—was a wartime  ... after carefully weighing the situation for three months, obama choose to send  an additional 30,000 troops, a decision that was criticized by many in his party.  barack ...
evidence_3: feb 15, 2016 ... obama came into office rightly arguing that the war was important but had been  sidelined, and promised to set it aright. .... obama's first mention of withdrawal, in  december 2009, was only in reference to the surge troops, not the 68,000 who  were already in country, and he only set a date for the beginning ...
evidence_4: jan 29, 2014 ... you can ask around in your field, but that doesn't always pay off, and it's  especially hard if you're just starting out. so, as suggested by a ..... the weirdest  part is, our job titles were standardized across my hospital a couple of years  before i came– with input from other clinical research folks! so i really don't ...
evidence_5: jan 1, 2017 ... a strategy that went from a “good war” to the shorthand “afghan good enough”  reflects the president's coming to terms with what was possible in ... summer of  2015: how could they stabilize afghanistan while preserving mr. obama's  longtime goal of pulling out the last american troops before he left office?