Obama: Bush Iraq plan not enough

From NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones DAYTON, Ohio -- President George W. Bush's announcement regarding his plan for modest troop redeployments from Iraq does not go far enough to push the country's leaders toward political reconciliation, Obama said Tuesday. In a 15-minute press conference, in which he also touched on the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and acknowledged the popularity of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin among Republicans, the Illinois senator told reporters Bush's plan for redeployment from Iraq to a new name for the same “strategic mistakes" he says have dominated U.S. foreign policy for the last five years, because it would mean keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq when the military is overstretched and spending $10 billion a month there while the Iraqi government sits on a $79 billion surplus. The senator said he was pleased Bush had announced more troops for Afghanistan -- something he said he had been advocating for years -- but said that plan also came up short. "The most ... (link)