justoneminute.typepad.com - 2/27/2009
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The Times returns to Obama's timetable for withdrawing US combat troops from Iraq:WASHINGTON — President Obama heads to one of the nation’s most storied military bases Friday morning to unveil plans to pull most troops out of Iraq by August...
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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shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 2/28/2009
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By Christian Brose Today begins the leap in
the dark. For six years we've known that the...
Iraq war must end and that at some point U.S. forces would leave. The question that always hung out there was -- and then what ? President Bush chose not to ...
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Obama's Iraq speech: Brought to you by George W. Bush
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When will Obama thank Bush? When will Obama admit he was wrong about the surge?
Sister Toldjah —
... Why thank Bush? For authorizing the surge plan - you know, the one President Obama opposed as a junior Senator and still opposed as a candidate for president (even after it was blatantly evident that the violence and killings had dramatically decreased) - that eventually helped the security situation in Iraq stabilize and the political reconciliation process begin to take place to the point that the Commander in Chief after him could put in place a realistic withdrawal plan, approved by top military brass as well as supported by top Republicans, ...
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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 ...
Please Go Away--Redux
swampland.blogs.time.com 3/31/2009 — The extremist spew over at the Commentary blog--It's all over for Obama! His Worst Week Yet! Geithner's Finished!--is occasionally punctuated by a posting of such transcendent ignorance and chutzpah that it can't be ignored. Such is the case with ...
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 ...
Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Iraq: All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast
huffingtonpost.com 3/2/2009 —
Originally posted at AlterNet
Some anti-war analysts find hope in President Barack Obama's address at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina on Friday, in which he appeared to spell out a clear date for withdrawal from Iraq.
"I intend to remove ...
Anbar Rising
mudvillegazette.com 3/12/2009 — Continuing our sixth anniversary review - this post from early October, 2006 was a compilation and examination of events largely ignored (or simply reported as discrete acts of more or less random violence) at the time in Western media. Many would ultimately come to regard the "Awakening" ...
Obama gets it right on Iraq
lynch.foreignpolicy.com 2/27/2009 — I thought Obama's speech on Iraq this afternoon was outstanding.It laid out a powerful rationale for the new policy, sent a very clear signal to Iraqis about American intentions, placed American policy firmly within the context of the Status of ...
US Troops To Leave Iraq By August 2010: Officials
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 — WASHINGTON — 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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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/24/2009 — 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 ...
Obama calls Bush —
CNN Political Ticker 2/27/2009
Before laying out his administration's plans for the U.S. military in Iraq Friday, the President called former President George W. Bush. (Photo Credit: Getty Images/File)
(CNN) – President Barack Obama called former President Bush on this morning to ...
Reactions to Obama's Iraq plan —
First Read 2/27/2009
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro (Statements compiled by NBC’s Mike Viqueira, Kelly O’Donnell and Ken Strickland)
Reactions to President Obama ’s Iraq withdrawal plan have been mostly universally praised by Republicans, but approached ...
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