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Show World&Nation Page 12 Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 Obama offers no firm signals on troop increases WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Wednesday. Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Obama said the war would not be reduced Afghanistan war to a counterterrorism camto a narrowly defined counterterrorism effort, paign. Yet he did not signal whether he is with the withdrawal of many U.S. forces and an prepared to send any more troops to the war emphasis on special operations forces that target zone – either the 40,000 his terrorists in the dangerous top commander wants or a border region of Afghanistan smaller buildup, according to and Pakistan. Two senior several officials. administration officials say House and Senate leaders such a scenario has been of both parties emerged from inaccurately characterized a nearly 90-minute conversaand linked to Vice President tion with Obama with praise Joe Biden, and that Obama for his candor and interest wanted to make clear he is in listening. But politically considering no such plan. speaking, all sides appeared The president did not show to exit where they entered, his hand on troop increases. with Republicans pushing His top commander in Obama to follow his military Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley commanders and Democrats McChrystal, has bluntly saying he should not be warned that more troops rushed. are needed to right the war, Obama is examining how perhaps up to 40,000 more. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-Ariz., to proceed with a worsenObama has already added left, talks with House Minority Leader 21,000 troops this year, raising war that has claimed John Boehner at the White House nearly 800 U.S. lives and ing the total to 68,000. Tuesday, Oct. 6. AP photo sapped American patience. Obama also gave no timeLaunched after the Sept. 11, table for a decision, which 2001, terrorist attacks to defeat the Taliban and prompted at least one pointed exchange. rid al-Qaida of a home base, the war has lasted Inside the State Dining Room, where the longer than ever envisioned – eight years on meeting was held, Obama’s Republican oppo- nent in last year’s presidential race, Sen. John McCain, told Obama that he should not move at a “leisurely pace,” according to people in the room. That comment later drew a sharp response from Obama, they said. Obama said no one felt more urgency than he did about the war, and there would not be nothing leisurely about it. Obama may be considering a more modest building of troops – closer to 10,000 than 40,000 – according to Republican and Democratic congressional aides. But White House aides said no such decision has been made. The president insisted that he will make a decision on troops after settling on the strategy ahead. He told lawmakers he will be deliberate yet show urgency. “We do recognize that he has a tough decision, and he wants ample time to make a good decision,” said House Republican leader John Boehner. “Frankly, I support that, but we need to remember that every day that goes by, the troops that we do have there are in greater danger.” What’s clear is that the mission in Afghanistan is not changing. Obama said his focus is to keep al-Qaida terrorists from having a base from which to launch attacks on the U.S or its allies. He heard from 18 lawmakers and said he would keep seeking such input even knowing his final decision would not please them all. Several lawmakers described the exchanges as helpful and open. Different views emerged over just how much backing the president will get. “The one thing that I think was interesting is that everyone, Democrats and Republicans, said, ‘Whatever decision you make, we’ll support it,’ basically,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “So we’ll see.” The Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said later: “I think Republicans will be able to make the decisions for themselves.” But he added that Obama is likely to get significant Republican support if he follows the advice of his military commanders. Boehner agreed, saying “my colleagues on the House side will be there to support” Obama if he stays true to the mission of denying a haven for al-Qaida terrorists or Taliban militants who are fiercely fighting coalition forces. Obama’s emphasis on working off a strong strategy did not mean he shed much light on what it would be. He did, though, seek to “dispense with the more extreme options on either side of the debate,” as one administration official put it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the closed-door meeting. NASA contractor ATK laying off 550 employees SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The phase-out of the space shuttle program brought 550 layoffs on Tuesday to a Utah company that makes the booster rockets. ATK Space Systems said it was handing out pink slips to engineers, factory workers and others at three Utah locations. The company, a business unit of Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems Inc., is developing NASA’s powerful moon rocket as a replacement for the space shuttle. But funding for that program is uncertain, and the initial work isn’t enough to maintain a full work force. The layoffs will leave ATK Space Systems with around 3,900 employees at its Clearfield headquarters, a factory in Magna and a test facility in Promontory. The company alerted workers to plans for the reductions in July. More than 130 of the employees voluntarily accepted a layoff. Along with others, they will get a severance package of up to a half-year’s wages. Some of the layoffs were blamed on the end of production for the government’s Minuteman III ballistic missile program. Despite the cutbacks, the company believes it has a secure future in aerospace work and said it was working to secure more defense or NASA contract work. ATK successfully test fired NASA’s powerful moon rocket last month in Promontory, 65 miles north of Salt Lake City. A first attempt in August was scrubbed because of problems with a computer component on the ground test system. The Ares I has been a centerpiece of NASA’s $100 billion return to the moon plans, first suggested by President George W. Bush in 2004. The idea was that the Ares I would take the Orion crew capsule to the international space station in Earth orbit and then to the moon, with the big equipment coming from a heavy lift rocket, still to be built, called Ares V. But after money problems, delays, and technical issues, President Barack Obama appointed a special outside panel of experts to review NASA’s future space plans. The committee’s preliminary summary, issued last month, said there wasn’t enough money in the current budget to go to the moon and also suggested that the Ares I may not be the best option. Still, NASA plans to permanently retire the space shuttles by the end of next year, when construction of the international space station is finished. ENGINEERS WITH ATK Space Systems examine the test area after a successful test firing of the five-segment, first stage of the Ares-1 rocket, at ATK Space Systems in Promontory, Utah, Sept. 10, 2009. The rocket motor is NASA’s next generation transportation system designed for the Orion program. 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