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On the recordMarch 18, 2013
Last month in a State of the Union address to the nation, President Obama announced that the United States will be drawing down our forces in Afghanistan by 34,000 troops over the coming year and projecting that our military presence in Afghanistan will be over before the start of 2015.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen summarizes President Obama's announcement on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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