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Joe Biden: Obama’s administration wholeheartedly endorses the Bush Iraq Strategy
RedState: Conservative News and Community — VP-to-be Joseph Biden (D-DE) came out of hiding this week to boast that he and his boss will be following the post-Iraq-conflict blueprint drawn up by the Bush administration to a T. At an appearance in Baghdad today, Biden said that “the new administration will stick to the timetable in the [U.S-Iraq Status of Forces] agreement.” As AP writer Robert Reid points out, “Obama pledged during his election campaign to withdraw all American combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office” (naturally he misses the fact that Obama actually sponsored legislation that would have removed all troops from Iraq by ...

About that immediate withdrawal from Iraq
QandO — No immediate closure of Gitmo and now this? The leftoids must be about to explode: Since the November election, however, the U.S. and Iraq have signed a new security agreement that provides for all the more than 140,000 U.S. troops to leave by 2012, despite concerns among senior U.S. commanders that Iraqi forces might not be ready by then to ensure stability. Biden, a Democrat from Delaware who has been a frequent visitor to Iraq as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the agreement sets out a new strategy between ...

Change!... Biden Says Obama Will Stick to Bush Iraq Plan
Gateway Pundit — ... At an appearance in Baghdad today, Biden said that “the new administration will stick to the timetable in the [U.S-Iraq Status of Forces] agreement.” As AP writer Robert Reid points out, “Obama pledged during his election campaign to withdraw all American combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office” (naturally he misses the fact that Obama actually sponsored legislation that would have removed all troops from Iraq by March of last year). The SOFA, though, provides for combat troops to remain in Iraq until 2012, with the possibility of an even ...

ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out — With all the promises of change that Barack Obama got his supporters to believe, we’re now finding out that "promises" are more like "goals".  Or perhaps "hopes". Close Gitmo on the first day in office?  First week?  First 100 days?  Well, technically, he may only issue an order to do it soon, but it’s "a challenge" to even close it within the first 100 days.  The ACLU wants a timetable.  Good luck with that. "That’s a challenge," Obama said on ABC’s "This Week." "I think ...

But did Biden offer to cut up Iraq?
Hot Air » Top Picks — But did Biden offer to cut up Iraq? posted at 2:53 pm on January 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly How far have the Democrats moved on Iraq?  Joe Biden, the incoming Vice President, has demanded a partition of the country into three separate federal states, which no one else — especially not the Iraqis — want.  Barack Obama, our next President, demanded a fixed-date withdrawal from Iraq during the primaries.  Both men insisted that the surge would not bring any stability or decrease in violence to Iraq. Now?  Not so much : Vice President-elect Joe Biden told Iraqi leaders ...