mudvillegazette.com - 2/25/2009
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WaPo : President Obama is expected to announce as early as Friday that he will remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by August 2010, three months later than promised during his campaign, U.S. officials said. Of course, they're all going to Afghanistan.
But those are just the combat ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/26/2009
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Asked about Afghanistan back in November 2003, McCain
stressed that Iraq was the more important effort, but...
that he thought that we would be able to “muddle through” in Afghanistan. Watch it: MCCAIN: I am concerned about it, ...
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McCain Wakes Up To War In Afghanistan
thenation.com - 2/27/2009
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thenation.com —
Justin Ruben had a good meeting with President
Obama last week. As the new executive director of...
MoveOn.org, the 35-year-old Texan was invited to a small White House gathering for allies on February 18, where he brought a message from his five ...
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New MoveOn Director Backs The President, For a Change
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... expected to announce as early as Friday that he will remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by August 2010, three months later than promised during his campaign, U.S. officials said.Of course, theyre all going to Afghanistan. But those are just the combat troops:The Obama withdrawal plan would leave a residual force of as many as 50,000 support troops that would advise Iraqi forces and perform other security missions, the officials said.Some enterprising young reporter should ask... read ...
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No Change at All
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Change we cannot and do not believe in
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Diversions (III)
mudvillegazette.com 3/8/2009 — Remember the Iraq drawdown you heard about last month? The one where a Brigade originally scheduled for Iraq was going to Afghanistan instead? Well, a funny thing about that...
Last weekend we noted this obscure bit of news from ABC: Gen. Odierno will receive a Stryker Brigade to replace ...
McCain on Afghanistan (Not Iraq)
weeklystandard.com 3/27/2009 — Barack Obama will unveil his plan for Afghanistan Friday. Mike Allen reports that the new plan will include 4200 more troops, as well as civilian reinforcements. (See Goldfarb on the politics of the plan here .)
Allen writes:
The plan is at the ...
The Beginning of the End? Obama, Gates Outline Iraq Drawdown
attackerman.firedoglake.com 2/27/2009 — Update : In a conference call with reporters immediately after President Obama's Iraq-withdrawal speech , Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the withdrawal plan has the support of key military leaders.
"I'm obviously very supportive of ...
The Next Steps To Get Out Of Iraq
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/27/2009 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , Research Associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Today, the New York Times reports that President Obama plans to withdraw only two combat brigades from Iraq prior to that country’s next national ...
Change That Is Not Change… And Iran
westernfrontamerica.com 12/9/2008 — Well, now. Isn't this interesting! Obama's change is not exactly the change many on the political left had expected of him. Some on the left are even claiming that Obama's foreign policy, what little we know of it yet, is akin to that of George Bush's father, George H. W. Bush. Obama ...
Afghanistan is not “harder” than Iraq
democracyarsenal.org 3/25/2009 — I have to take issue with the now clichéd line that Afghanistan is harder than Iraq. It is hard – very hard – but saying it is “harder” is Monday morning quarterbacking with rose-colored glasses. As Iraq descended into chaos in 2004, 2005, 2006, and ...
First 100 days: The Iraq withdrawal —
First Read 2/25/2009
NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube reported yesterday, “U.S. military and administration officials tell NBC News that President Obama is expected to announce that more than half of the American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq within 19 ...
First 100 days: Afghanistan and Iraq —
First Read 2/26/2009
Per a new Washington Post/ABC poll, two-thirds of Americans support President Obama's decision to send approximately 17,000 additional U.S. military forces to Afghanistan… Support for the proposed influx of troops to Afghanistan, however, comes as ...
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