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Barack Obama: “I made the most difficult decision that I've made as President, and that is to deploy an additional 30,000 troops into…”

On the recordJune 22, 2011
I made the most difficult decision that I've made as President, and that is to deploy an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan so that we could turn back Taliban momentum.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at Fort Drum

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