mudvillegazette.com - 2/27/2009
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It's official: any combat forces in Iraq after August 2010 will be called something else : President Obama’s planned Iraq troop drawdown would leave the bulk of American forces in place until early next year while some combat units would remain in place in new roles even beyond a declared ...
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Here's the last part of today's speech by
Obama: Finally, I want to be very clear that...
my strategy for ending the war in Iraq does not end with military plans or diplomatic agendas it endures through our commitment to uphold our sacred trust ...
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... after August 2010 will be called something else:President Obama s planned Iraq troop drawdown would leave the bulk of American forces in place until early next year while some combat units would remain in place in new roles even beyond a declared August 2010 target for withdrawal, administration officials said Wednesday. The plan would maintain relatively high troop levels through Iraq s parliamentary elections, to be held in December, before beginning in earnest to meet the August... read ...
OBAMA, IRAQ, and the amazing, disappearing SOFA. Somebody needs to be running a track-changes on th…
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... OBAMA, IRAQ, and the amazing, disappearing SOFA. Somebody needs to be running a track-changes on the White House website, as stuff hits the memory hold fast. ...
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