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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters U.S. Afghanistan commander's troops request ready Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:01pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Peter Graff KABUL (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has drawn up a long-awaited and detailed request for additional troops but has not yet sent it to Washington, a spokesman said on Saturday. He said General Stanley McChrystal completed the document this week, setting out exactly how many U.S. and NATO troops, Afghan security force members and civilians he thinks he needs. "We're working with Washington as well as the other NATO participants about how it's best to submit this," said the spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis, declining to give details of the contents. He said it might be "a few weeks" before McChrystal sent his request to Washington or NATO's Brussels headquarters. The announcement that McChrystal has already determined how many troops he wants comes just three days after President Barack Obama said he would not rush to make a decision. "There is no immediate decision pending on resources," Obama said. "You have to get the strategy right and then make the determination about resources." McChrystal commands more than 100,000 troops, rising to about 110,000 by the end of this year, two-thirds of them American. The Pentagon has already doubled the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan this year under an escalation strategy begun under President George W. Bush and ramped up under Obama. McChrystal sent a review of the situation in the country to Washington and NATO last month, but was ordered to keep his advice on future force requirements out of that document and submit any requests for troops separately. TOUGH DECISION Obama's decision on whether to continue escalating the eight-year-old war could determine the fate of his key foreign policy issue. Support for the mission has begun to flag in the United States, U.S. troops are dying in combat at the highest rate of the war and Obama faces skepticism from within his own Democratic Party about the need for more troops. European NATO allies are showing even greater signs of weariness. Britain, Germany and France have jointly called for an international conference this year to begin to set timetables for Afghanistan to assume a greater role in its own security. Meanwhile, Republicans have said Obama should quickly send McChrystal the troops he wants. They accuse the president of putting troops in danger by delaying the decision. McChrystal took command of the U.S. and NATO forces in June, promising a new strategy that emphasizes protecting civilians, based on tactics from Iraq that need many troops with a presence in communities. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Taliban leader Mullah Omar takes aim at Obama Pittsburgh G20 summit Bankers pay and the need to examine strategies for withdrawing state stimulus for the global economy have dominated debate ahead of a G20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 24-25. 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