CNN: Obama To Announce 34,000 Troops In Afghanistan Will Be Home Next Year

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Jake Tapper, chief Washington correspondent for CNN, reported on air Tuesday that President Barack Obama will announce during tonight’s State of the Union address that 34,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Afghanistan will return home by this time next year, cutting the number of troops currently there roughly in half.

 

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