President Obama will speak about his plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan tonight. Our partner, The New York Times, reports that all 30,000 soldiers deployed to Afghanistan last year will be home by the end of the year. Other reports cite senior defense officials as saying that number will be closer to 10,000, with 5,000 troops returning home this summer, and the rest by winter or spring of 2012.
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