In Afghanistan, Boehner Assails U.S. Pullout Plan AFP reports: “US House Speaker John Boehner wrapped up a visit to Afghanistan Wednesday and assailed President Barack Obama’s plan to begin pulling US troops out in July a risk to fragile security gains.’Any drawdown of US troops must be based on the conditions on the ground, not on political calculations,’ Boehner, the White House’s top Republican foe in the US Congress, said in a statement from his office in Washington.”
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