Rudy Giuliani - a troop surge in Afghanistan is needed

Giuliani calls for Afghanistan troop "surge"
Reuters via Yahoo News | Mark Egan


WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday called for doubling U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan as part of a broader military expansion.

"One of the things we should do ... immediately, we should double the number of our troops, our American-led combat troops in Afghanistan," the former New York mayor said in a speech at a World War II museum.

Rudy Giuliani visits Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street

Giuliani pays homage to Thatcher on UK visit

Times Online

Rudy Giuliani tried to burnish his conservative credentials on a trip to Britain today, visting Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street before meeting with Margaret Thatcher at a planned event in her honour this evening.



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While John McCain’s campaign team is getting smaller, Rudy Giuliani’s is getting bigger.

The former New York City mayor announced his foreign policy team today. It will be headed by Charles Hill, a former executive aide to Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He’s also a lecturer in the International Security Studies program at Yale University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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