BUSH MAY SEND MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN AS TALIBAN BECOMES STRONGER

Afghanistan has become the new "hot spot" in the Middle East and U.S. forces in the country are in dire need of more troops to fight the resurgent Taliban.

Bush says he is weighing whether to send more troops to Afghanistan

DEB RIECHMANN
AP News
Jul 02, 2008 10:26 EST
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=236152

President Bush said Wednesday he is weighing whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Bush said it has been a "tough month" in Afghanistan, where more U.S. and NATO troops died during the past two months than in Iraq.

The president told a Rose Garden news conference that one reason for the rising deaths "is that our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy ... of course there is going to be resistance." It has also been a "tough month for the Taliban," he said.