Hungarian PM Announces 200 New Troops to Afghanistan after Meeting with VP Biden
EmailABC News’ Karen Travers reports: Hungarian Prime Minister Gyorgy Gordon Bajnai announced today after a meeting with Vice President Biden that he would send 200 new Hungarian troops to Afghanistan to aid in the new U.S. strategy there. “I've made it clear that we agree with the announced strategy of President Obama. We support it,” Bajnai said. Biden called the announcement “a politically important and courageous decision” and a “significant commitment” from the Hungarians. “I want Americans to understand that when you heard the president say 200 troops, most Americans will say, ’200 troops?’ This is a significant commitment,” the vice president said. The commitment is a 60 percent increase over Hungary’s previous troop deployment there, Bajnai said. Hungary had 340 troops already working in Afghanistan on reconstruction projects and troop training. — Karen Travers
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It’s great to see the VP getting some positive recognition for his silver tongue for a change.
Of course, it’s easy to suspect Hungary had been planning to send 500 troops BEFORE their PM got the Biden treatment.
Posted by: Bob | December 4, 2009, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Posted by: Bob | Dec 4, 2009 5:32:50 PM
NATO today announced 7000 new troops being deployed to Iraq in response to the Obama, Biden, Clinton initiative.
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
I had the urge to say the same thing about Joe but I will hold off and simply say “Thanks” to Hungarian President László Sólyom (I did know the name but not the spelling)
Posted by: Denbo | December 4, 2009, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
The Hungarian Prime Minister actually said two new troops. Joe is still suffering from stimulus hyperbole and announced 200 troops. Thanks again Joe for the 5 trillion jobs created or saved. You still the man.
Posted by: jerry | December 4, 2009, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm
The Taliban are taking notes of Obama’s
rules of how our troops are to fight the war. They know now that if they are captured all they have to do is claim one of our troops punched them and they will be set free and our guy is courtmarshalled with out throwing a punch. This could be why other countries are reluctent to send their troops to Afghanistan.
Posted by: John Demeter | December 5, 2009, 2:14 am 2:14 am