{"article":{"id":232845,"heading":"What Obama ment to say","author":"Resolved White","created":"2009-12-03 18:51:23","modified":"2013-11-11 01:03:40","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:03:40","article":"<p>&ldquo;The 30,000 additional troops that I'm announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 so that they can be easy targets for the insurgency. <br><br> They'll increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces before they go over to the Taliban with their weapons and knowledge. <br><br> We will partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight against us.  <br><br> And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Taliban before the next US Presidential election. <br><br> It is vital that we are out of Afghanistan before I run again. <br><br> The 7,000 will have died for a good cause &ndash;my re-election&rdquo;. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"At West Point.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yipee.jpg","filesize":"91.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/12\/232845.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yipee.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yipee.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yipee.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}