Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on a security agreement by Wednesday, which will keep the US troops here until the end of 2011, the parliament's speaker said yesterday.

议会发言人昨日表示，伊拉克立法者预计将在周三之前就一项安全协议进行投票，该协议将使美军在伊拉克驻扎至2011年底。

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Obama is scheduled to meet senior military commanders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how to fulfil his election promises to withdraw US troops from Iraq and win the war in Afghanistan.

奥巴马计划周三在白宫会见一批高级军事指挥官，讨论如何履行他在选举时针对从伊拉克撤军并赢得阿富汗战争胜利的承诺。

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The award comes as Barack Obama considers sending up to 40, 000 more troops to Afghanistan, where the US is mired in an eight-year conflict.

在奖项颁布之际，奥巴马正在考虑向阿富汗增派4万名士兵，而此前美国已经深陷阿富汗冲突八年之久。

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"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

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We heard yesterday here at pond in Prinston, that the Parkistani government would like us to target other people, people who are leading the Taliban troops against their government rather than the people we want targeting who was leading the fighting in Afghnastan.

昨天我在普林斯顿的一个小湖边听到有人说，巴基斯坦政府想要我们去袭击其他人，那些反对政府的塔利班分子头目,而不是我们想要针对的人,这些人领导着阿富汗的斗争。

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There are around 140,000 troops from the US and NATO in Afghanistan, and NATO officials predict more to arrive soon.

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Although Bush wouldn't have argued that the UN gets to decide where US troops are deployed, he did believe that the US needed UN permission to deploy troops.

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His visit come two days after Pakistani troops were reported to have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan tribal area.

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Ray Odierno, told reporters that Iran fields three Shi'ite militias in Iraq whose forces are attempting to attack US troops as they withdraw from the country.

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