Barack Obama actually said...

Maintaining these forces in Afghanistan would be for the purposes of training, advising, and assisting Afghan forces and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al-Qa'ida.

Context

Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Global Deployments of United States Combat-Equipped Armed Forces

06/11/2014

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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