U.s. military officers are preparing a case for counter pressure Congress to stick to the planned retirement of President Obama of troops from Afghanistan.
General of the army of USA David Petraeus, who assumed command of Afghanistan from General Stanley McChrystal in July, is expected to hold Sunday in "Meet the Press NBC" than the "counterinsurgency strategy has not received enough time to be successful," The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Petraeus is taking action to indicate that he believes that a rapid withdrawal would be "foolish", reflecting the recent affirmation of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates that withdrawal next summer "will be a number fairly limited," says the times.
In addition, the next generation of officials that have been tested battle in counter-insurgency strategy since 2002 have been telling Obama management that needed more time to do the job.
"His argument is that if we have been in Afghanistan for nine years, only in the last 12 months or which have thus we start doing this right, and we must give it some time and think about what our presence in the long term in Afghanistan should look like," a senior management officer told him to the times on condition of anonymity.
The White House officials insist that are conform to Obama "start withdrawal conditions-based" plan in July 2011.The President will make his next assessment of progress in December.
Deaths of former Congressman from the United States Dan Rostenkowski CHICAGO, August 11 (UPI) - former representative of U.s. Dan Rostenkowski, who became President of the Commission on ways and means of home and went to prison in disgrace, died the miércoles.Se was 82.
Rostenkowski died at his home in summer in powers Lake, Wisconsin, after a long battle with cancer, reported the Chicago Tribune.
A an insider politician in Washington and the corridor of power, Rostenkowski represented his 5th Congress for 36 years, Congressional District Chicago coming to head the powerful Ways and means that rewrote the 1986 u.s. tax code Committee impuestos-escritura.Son of 32nd Councillor Ward Joseph Rostenkowski democratic, Daniel was elected to the House of representatives in 1958 and served up to the scandal brought him down in 1994.
He was accused of 17 charges ranging from mail and wire fraud to the obstruction of Justice, including the recruitment to ghost payrollers and maintain policies of slush funds.
He also served on the Illinois Chamber in 1952 and was elected to the State Senate in 1954.
In 1996, was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison in Oxford, Wis., once he was found guilty of two counts of mail fraud for the improper use of funds of taxpayers for lying about infringements of rules of lower expenditures that govern stamps and Office chairs.
A political style, manuals, superpower known as man in Chicago Mayor Richard j. Daley in Washington, once was defeated in his attempt to re-election by Republican Michael Patrick Flanagan, a political neophyte who served a term in the House and was pardoned by President Clinton in 2000.
Rostenkowski never apologized for the scandal and later became a frequent political analyst and commentator on the night of the election in Chicago television and radio stations.
He is survived by his wife LaVerne and Dawn, Kristie and Gayle daughters.
Visitation was scheduled on Monday afternoon in the Church of Saint Stanislaus Kostka in Chicago with funeral services at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in the Iglesia.Enterrado in the cemetery of St Adalbert in Niles, ILL.
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