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Mike Mullen disputes Donald Rumsfeld on Afghan troop request
By
JEN DIMASCIO |
12/3/09 11:16 AM EST
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed back in a
fact-checking dispute with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
asserting that the Bush administration rejected a Pentagon request for
more troops for Afghanistan last year.
Adm. Michael Mullen told a House committee Wednesday that Gen. David
McKiernan, who led U.S. troops in Afghanistan between 2008 and this
year, had asked for 20,000 troops for the effort but was rebuffed.
“We didn’t have them because they were pushed to Iraq,” the four-star
admiral said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in
response to a question from Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence. “That
was the priority of the president.”
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