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The Gettysburg address is displayed as sample text on a teleprompter screen at Eisenhower Hall at the United States Military Academy at West Point where President Barack Obama will speak Tuesday.

Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011.
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