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Skelton Talks Afghanistan on Face the Nation
October 5th, 2009 | 
Author: .Sean (Fired Up! Missouri)
Rep. Ike Skelton was on “Face The Nation” this morning as part of a roundtable on the future of the war in Afghanistan.
On the program, Skelton said he supports General Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation for sending an additional 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.
“I back him up. I sent a letter to the president a number of days ago spelling out in great detail – some six pages of a letter – spelling out basically ‘Give the general what he needs.’ You see, you have to have security in Afghanistan. You have to have governance in Afghanistan. If you don’t have both of them, your whole strategy falls apart,” Skelton said. Read the rest of this entry »
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