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President outlined tonight, this is only to drawdown the extra troops that president obama sent in when we last heard from him on this subject in december, 2009. this is just drawing down the surge. here's what our troop presence in afghanistan has looked like over the last decade. wow, decade. you can really say that. when president obama was sworn into office january of 2009, there were about 34,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. mr. obama, of course, campaigned overtly on the fact that he was going to scale up the war in afghanistan, and he very much kept that promise. he increased troop level...

Important to note that this 15-month drawdown plan that the president outlined tonight, this is only to drawdown the extra troops that president obama sent in when we last heard from him on this subject in december, 2009. this is just drawing down the surge. here's what our troop presence in afghanistan has looked like over the last decade. wow, decade. you can really say that. when president obama was sworn into office january of 2009, there were about 34,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. mr. obama, of course, campaigned overtly on the fact that he was going to scale up the war in afghanistan, ...

Transition will be complete. >> although this has been headlined all day everywhere as a big troop withdrawal, it's important to note that this 15-month drawdown plan that the president outlined tonight, this is only to drawdown the extra troops that president obama sent in when we last heard from him on this subject in december, 2009. this is just drawing down the surge. here's what our troop presence in afghanistan has looked like over the last decade. wow, decade. you can really say that. when president obama was sworn into office january of 2009, there were about 34,000 u.s. troops in afgh...

You start to think maybe we do have something of real importance. it was thrown out in ksm, it was not understood that the courier was that important. 2003, we are working around the alias name. it was not until 2007, that we got the real name of the individual and then it took two more years, 2009, until we had a general region where we felt that this individual existed. the keys that we are putting together, it is an eight year process and not like a week or so they think they found bin laden's compound. >> it took all of that time. 2009, a region and august 2010, we identified the compound....