Sorry about that, Afghanistan. We're just all tied up in Iraq right now (even though they had nothing to do with 9/11 and there were no terrorists there before the Bush invaseion). Just go ahead and let those poppy fields grow, the Taliban grow stronger, Bin Laden and the rest of the world laugh at us while we're tied down in Iraq. We'll be along later.....maybe.
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President Bush said Wednesday it has been a "tough month" in Afghanistan, where more U.S. and NATO troops died during the past two months than in Iraq. The Pentagon said it is too strapped to send more forces to Afghanistan now.
The president told a Rose Garden news conference that one reason for the rising deaths "is that our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy ... of course there is going to be resistance." It has also been a "tough month for the Taliban," he said.
At the Pentagon, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that if security continues to improve in Iraq, he hopes troops will be available to shift to Afghanistan by the end of this year.
He said he currently doesn't have the troops — or brigade combat teams — to send to Afghanistan because of the military commitment in Iraq. But, he added, "we're on an increasingly positive path in Iraq in lots of dimensions. And so I'm hopeful toward the end of the year, opportunities like that would be created."
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