| 1 | ON TAKING office in 2009, President Barack Obama found a longstanding request from the army on his desk, asking for more troops for the war in Afghanistan. | |
| 2 | After a heated debate, the German parliament voted this month to maintain its troops for another year. | |
| 3 | "He has left more troops in Iraq than originally anticipated, " said President Bush. | |
| 4 | Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. | |
| 5 | Roughly one-third of the troops would stay through 2011 to provide security and training. |