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 The More Things Change... - White House Press Briefing by Robert Gibbs 1/26/09 — Tuesday, January 27, 2009 — Transcripts provided by Master Transcription  Full 1/26/09 Press Briefing Transcript GIBBS: Helen?Q: [Helen Thomas] Why is the President sending more troops… wants to send more troops to Afghanistan to kill people? GIBBS: In the campaign, the President talked about the fact that we'd largely taken our eye off the ball in Afghanistan and moved direct resources to Iran – I'm sorry, to Iraq, to fight there. We've seen in that intervening time a significant deterioration in the situation in Afghanistan and along the border. I think the President has said that many of the people, or the same people that planned terror attacks in this country, are alive and well, likely, in those hills, planning more. And that if... Q: Do you – how do you know that? GIBBS: That's told to me and told to many of the American people through intelligence reports and good reporting. The President has started a process, with Secretary Gates, with the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with military commanders in the individual countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the wider region, to evaluate our posture as it relates to Afghanistan. He said during the campaign that we ought to move additional troops to Afghanistan... Q: [Helen] Why? GIBBS: Because we have a very dangerous situation there. Because we've got, as I said, terrorists that planned horrific acts here in 2001... Q: [Inaudible] come here and bomb us? GIBBS: ...likely planning – likely planning again. We're going to ensure the safety of the American people and make sure that Afghanistan doesn't deteriorate any further. Afghanistan | Helen Thomas | President Obama | Press Briefing | Robert Gibbs | War on Terror | White House Press Corps Labels: Afghanistan, Helen, President Obama, Press Briefing, Robert Gibbs, War on Terror, White House Press Corps
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