andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 2/24/2009
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Thomas Ricks worries : It seems to me that by vowing to get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war plan assumed that the United States would get ...
news.yahoo.com - 2/24/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - The United States will withdraw most
of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19...
months after President Barack Obama's inauguration day, according to administration officials who expect Obama to make the announcement this week.
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Officials: US out of Iraq in 19 months
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books.foreignpolicy.com - 2/23/2009
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books.foreignpolicy.com —
by Marc Lynch The Gamble is perhaps the
best of the rapidly proliferating crop of "Iraq surge"...
books. While it shares the generally admiring tone for the architects of the surge common in such books, it maintains the critical ...
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Iraq doesn't have to last forever
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 2/24/2009
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ricks.foreignpolicy.com —
It seems to me that by vowing to
get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama...
is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war plan assumed that the ...
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Will Obama repeat Bush's big mistake in Iraq?
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Tell Me Now if You Want Me to Stay, It Don't Matter, 'Cause I'd Stay Here Anyway
Obsidian Wings —
... by Eric Martin
Commenting on a blog post by Tom Ricks, Andrew Sullivan makes some statements that I agree with, and others that I want to quibble with:
It seems to me that by vowing to get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war plan assumed that the United States would get down to 30,000 troops in Iraq by the fall of 2003. Instead, here we are more than five years ...
Tell Me Now if You Want Me to Stay, It Don't Matter, 'Cause I'd Stay Here Anyway
Newshoggers.com —
... by Eric Martin
Commenting on a blog post by Tom Ricks, Andrew Sullivan makes some statements that I agree with, and others that I want to quibble with:
It seems to me that by vowing to get out of Iraq in 16 months, President Obama is not departing from the mistakes of George Bush, but repeating them. That is, Bush was persistently overoptimistic about Iraq. His original war plan assumed that the United States would get down to 30,000 troops in Iraq by the fall of 2003. Instead, here we are more than five years ...
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