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max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="BA92A7D3-9FF9-4815-8354-2A662C5C8E34" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:95D4CD77-EDBD-4E28-9D90-8BA320E5044E"></div></div></div><div class="credits" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1;"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-size: 11px; line-height: 1;">By <span rel="sioc:has_creator"><a href="http://thehill.com/author/rebecca-shabad" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rebecca Shabad</a></span> - <span class="date" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">11/22/14 11:30 AM EST</span></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="overflow: hidden; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="margin: 15px 0px;">Vice President Biden in 2010 said the United States would withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014 “come hell or high water,” an unlikely outcome as reports surface that President Obama recently expanded the mission.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px;">"We're starting it in July of 2011 and we're going to be totally out of there, come hell or high water, by 2014,” he said four years ago, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8214868/Joe-Biden-says-troops-will-leave-Afghanistan-by-2014-come-hell-or-high-water.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: bold;">according</a> to <em>The Telegraph.</em></p><div id="dfp-ad-mosad_1-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper" style="position: relative;"></div>Obama announced in May that most U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan by the end of the year except for 9,800 that would stay behind through 2016. <p style="margin: 15px 0px;">In recent weeks, Obama signed a classified order that will expand the U.S. mission in Afghanistan next year for those remaining troops, t<em>he New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/us/politics/in-secret-obama-extends-us-role-in-afghan-combat.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: bold;">reported</a> Friday.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px;">The new mission directs U.S. troops to carry out operations against the Taliban and other militant groups that threaten Afghanistan’s stability using jets, drones and bombers. They will also help advise and train Afghan forces so they are able to act on their own...</p><div><br></div></div></div></div></article><div><div>On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:09 PM, 'C. G. Estabrook' <a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a> [sf-core] <<a href="mailto:sf-core-noreply@yahoogroups.com">sf-core-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;"><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The government traditionally waits for late Friday evening to release news that that they want to be as unnoticed as possible - thinking that the weekend news reports will be minimal.</p><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">President Obama's refrain about the war's 'winding down' has always been mendacious.</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;"><div id="NYTEmail" style="line-height: 1.22em; 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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 11px;"><tbody style="line-height: 1.22em;"><tr style="line-height: 1.22em;"><td style="line-height: 1.22em; padding: 4px 0px 12px;">President Obama signed a secret order in recent weeks authorizing a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year.</td></tr><tr style="line-height: 1.22em;"><td style="line-height: 1.22em; padding: 4px 0px 12px;">In an announcement in the White House Rose Garden in May, Mr. Obama said that the American military would have no combat role in Afghanistan next year, and that the missions for the 9,800 troops remaining in the country would be limited to training Afghan forces and to hunting the “remnants of Al Qaeda.”</td></tr><tr style="line-height: 1.22em;"><td style="line-height: 1.22em; padding: 4px 0px 12px;">But Mr. Obama’s secret order allows American forces to carry out missions against the Taliban and other militant groups threatening American troops or the Afghan government, a broader mission than the president described to the public earlier this year, according to several administration, military and congressional officials with knowledge of the decision. 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