ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 2/24/2009
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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 ...
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
(AP)
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
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
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 down to 30,000 troops in Iraq by the fall of 2003. Instead, here we are more than five years later with more than four times that number of troops mired in Iraq. I hope we can stop planning for Iraq only on best-case assumptions. I echo Ricks' point. ...
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 ...
The Next Steps To Get Out Of Iraq
Wonk Room —
... , many observers – including Tom Ricks – continue to make this same fundamental error. Even the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Raymond Odierno, has ...
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